Battery drain issues since IOS 7.1.1 update

Same problem overhere. I did the whole reset all contents thing. Now I have an empty phone (I did not do a restore) with no apps whatsoever. And guess what? Last night I put my phone in Airplane mode at 100%. And this morning it dropped to 93% without any usage.

Now it's down to 70% after 45 minutes of use. That's less than 3 hours before it's empty.

Exact same problem here with my 4s. Nothing helped (clean instalation of ios, tweaks etc). And yes i've noticed that push apps bring down the battery (all kind of messengers). The annoying thing is there's absolutelly NO WAY to downgrade! Apple stopped signing SHSH certificates right after 7.1.1 update. I can't really use the phone on a trip as i need to charge it 2-3 time a day now, which makes it useless! Looks like People with iphone 5 dont have this problem. And it looks more and more like apple forces us to buy new models of iphone. To me all this looks like FRAUD! and i'm very close to sue apple.

have done the exact same thing and nothing!!! sooo annoying😠 and definately agree on the "pushing us to upgrade to newer model" they have always done this even with the older ipods before iphone! Whats the point in having a smart phone when you cant even use the features!! I can be on 3G at say 67%battery and i can literally watch the % drop! even on wi-fi it goes when using push-apps! This has been going on since the update to 7.1.1 ! About time they were listening to all the complaints and release an update ASAP !!

So as I posted before, I am an iPhone 5 user and also started having major battery issues after the 7.1.1 update. As part of the Apple Care Plus program, they replaced my iPhone 5 as it stated it had "power" issues when I ran the diag tool they emailed me.

The first replacement they sent me did not have any battery issues. It was like back to normal. However, this replacement device had cellular issues, so they sent me a 2nd replacement.

The second replacement I've had for almost a week now, and the battery has been back to normal on this one as well.

It seems like the majority of users with the battery issues with the 7.1.1 update are iPhone 4 or 4s users, but I still find it odd that my iPhone 5 was just fine until the 7.1.1 update. Maybe the 7.1.1 update is less tolerant to battery issues?

Anyway, hopefully Apple releases an update soon for those still having the battery issues.

Evening all, i thought i'd try my luck on here rather than continue to be ignored by apple. I have discussed this with many online techinicians and they seem keen to ignore its existance.They certainly don't acknowledge there's a growing issue. I have a 5s and its run fine from september until the beginning a few weeks ago. Then there's an update and a huge issue with battery drainage. 3 hours is the best i've had from light usage. 5 hours from no use at all. It seems like jail breaking is the way to protect software as i have friends who haven't updated and are perfectly fine but i hate that its not official and refuse to go down that route. Has anyone found a definitive and lasting solution as i can't even leave the house without an in-car and mains charger 'just in case'. All of which is more money in apples pocket and less in mine for a product nowhere near the end of its warranty.

In a wild new development, I had my iPhone 4 plugged in all night, picked it up, left it plugged in and used it for three minutes and the battery percentage dropped from 100% to 97% WHILE STILL PLUGGED IN! What is going on Apple!?

In response to the "solutions" of turning off push notificaitons and whatnot, that was done ages ago when I didn't want all the data being sucked up by useless messages from apps. As for resetting my devices, and having to redownload my entire magazine library I've been stockpiling for a long offshore sailing trip... that'd be great if I was in one of those happy markets where unlimited broadband at blistering speeds was as common as air, but I'm presently in Africa and that isn't exactly the case. 1GB of mobile data is about 18$ and on dsl, it's about $3. Soooooooo, not really an option. Let's go Apple, it's a problem. We want a response.

Yup I recently bought apple iphone 4s & updated the ios to 7.1.1 & noticed battery is draining too fast. I'm not a heavy user of the phone & the battery reducing too fast. Just logged into see if the other users are having the same issue as me & notice there are quite a lot complaints. Clearly there's something wrong & we need a solution fast..

Yep, another user here with major battery issues (iphone 5, 7.1.1). Tried anything and everything (resets, restores, adjusting settings, draining battery to zero, testing for rogue apps). Went to the "Genius" bar and it was a complete waste of my time. I have a feeling it's some sort of hardware bug that Apple is happy to swwep under the rug as a "user issue". Maybe if enough people complain about it, they will offer a fix, although from what I read about 7.1.2, none of the potential fixes pertain to the battery. This *****!!!!

Follow up on my 4S. I went to the genius bar yesterday. They ran some diagnostics and said likely a software problem (not a surprise). They reinstalled firmware and system software. I re-intalled everything else "by hand" - not from any backup. I think my battery life is back to normal now....

I've tried restoring my iphone "as new", but that did not work for me. Even before I reloaded any of my apps, the battery was draining about 10% / hour while asleep. I've got no other options left other than doing what the Apple "genius" said, and that's getting a new battery installed. Uhhh, no thanks. Actually, my only hope now is that a future update resolves this issue. Apple is slowly turning me away with some of these issues. My phone also has the finicky power button. Ugh....

I thought I would pass on some of my experiences with since the iOS 7.1.1 update regarding the battery issues. I like many of you updated to the new version and immediately experienced a massive drop in battery power. I would have to recharge my phone 4-6 times a day and my phone would get burning hot. After weeks of trouble shooting and talking to Apple directly, I believe I have addressed my battery issue.

First I have an iPhone 5, iOS 7.1.1 and it is about 1 year old. I am a verizon customer using the LTE network. Prior to iOS 7.1.1 I could go a full day on one charge, after the update I was lucky to get 3-4 hours on a full charge.

At first I realized that the battery drained significantly more when I was not on Wi-Fi. I shut off all cellular data transfer for all applications under the Settings\Cellular. This resulted in a full day of use of the phone with only 22% of battery loss in a 12 hour period. I tested this several times over a 2 day period with the battery holding charge each time. Obviously there is some application causing the battery to drain, but isolating which app was the problem.

I later realized that the Cellular option in Settings hold some very important data information that can be very useful. First scroll all the way to the bottom and hit the Reset Statistics. This will reset the data transfered on your phone and let you start with a baseline. Charge your battery and use your phone as you normally would. If your battery is draining fast, then it should not take long to see where the problem is. Under the Cellular option you will scroll down part way to Cellular Data Usage and review the Current Period. This will be the total cellular data transfer since your reset. If you are on Wi-Fi and this reflects a large amount of data, then there is an app not using the Wi-Fi properly and burning your cellular data plan. Secondly, if you are on the cellular network, this is a good place to see how much data you are using.

Scrolling further down will list all of the installed applications on the iPhone, including Apple's built in apps. If you see any data amounts under the app that is the individual app usage over the cellular network. For myself, about 99% of my cellular data transfer was occuring from the Calendar application from Apple. I am not sure about everyone else, but my calendar has about 15 entries and for it to transfer 45MB of data in a 3 hour period doesn't seem right, especially when the system services only needed 800KB to operate.

To address this issue, I went to Settings\Mail, Contacts, Calendars\Fetch New Data\iCloud and selected Fetch. Then return to Fetch New Data and scroll down and choose Hourly. I believe this will also change the Holiday Calendar to Fetch as well, but I would double check. After changing those settings, reset the statistics in the Cellular option and test the battery and those apps that are transferring unusual amounts of data. For myself, this did the trick and I was able to go 28 hours on 48% of a full charged battery. The phone no longer became hot and I have not been forced to charge the phone more than once a day.

If I had to guess, iOS 7.1.1 introduced a significant issue with the push notification system, especially in regards to the Calendar app. On my wife's phone, we also noticed that photos were being transferred via the cellular network, although the photostream was set to Wi-Fi only. It might be a good idea to manually switch photos off under cellular usage.

As a side note, everyone has different apps and they may transfer data different based on the contents. If an app has a large amount of data, just think about what was being transferred to determine if that was reasonable. For example, I would expect Safari to have more data than my Calendar app, but not the other way around, which was hte case.

@Voracity. I looked into this after reading your post, and although I hadn't reset my cellular data stats the last time my data plan ran out, i did notice that my Calendar and Contacts apps had transmitted a stunning 288 and 156MB each. I've one calendar that I share with my wife. There is NOWAY that the calendar should be transmitting this much data over cellular networks. And as for contacts... I've added maybe three new contacts since January. I've shut off cellular data for these apps and will see what happens over the next few days.

Now, this doesn't account for the increased drain on my wifi-only iPad mini (1g). I could read books for hours and hours, over three of four nights before having to recharge. Now, maybe two, two-hour sessions and I'm down to 30-ish%.

NB: my devices are iPhone 4 and iPad Mini (1g)

Update on my 4S with 7.1.1 iOS. Bad news. Battery life is better after genius bar reflash, but still broken. I went from 4-5hrs of standby time to 7-8. NOT back to normal.

Following some of the discussion above, I turned off all push sync options. I have been watching cellular data logs. It does not look like an obvious calendar problem. I do see more cellular activity than I would expect reported under System Services/Networking - even when on wifi. I don't see an easy answer, I think I will have to upgrade to a new phone. I wonder if I can get Verizon to wave the early upgrade fee?

@mantissa88: I have a similar issue with my iPad Air, which is a Wi-Fi only device. I took the same steps on it as I did with my phone, which appeared to have helped. However, it is bit more difficult to see what is causing the issue since there is no Cellular option under settings to see the data transfer of apps. I wish that was a common option for all apps regardless of Wi-Fi or Cellular equipped devices. The larger battery of the iPad Air is masking the problem a bit though, so it is not quite as easy to detect the battery drain.

Let me know if those changes help or not, I am curious to see if others are having the same problem with the calendar app transferring large amounts of data.

@d_from_gr: Although I didn't go into it, my wife did go to the Apple store and reset the phone as you did. It seemed to help for a couple days, but the battery drain issue returned once the calendar was set back up. My wife and I share a single calendar with my Apple ID, and once it was re-established, the drain returned. My wife was using a factory default setup with no installed apps and she managed to get 3.5 hours before the phone completely drained. The data transfer of the Calendar app was off the charts in my opinion and putting the settings to fetch hourly made a huge difference in the battery usage.

Now previously, push had no issues being on prior to iOS 7.1.1, so I never really paid attention to the data transfer of the calendar app or any other app for that matter. So I do not have reference point to work from, but based on the amount data being pushed, it just doesn't feel correct to me. Try the steps I posted above and see if those help you in battery life.