Is anyone else experiencing battery life issues due to iOS 8.1.3?

No, I have no battery problems with iOS 8.1.3.

No issues to report as far as battery life goes with my iPhone 5s nor with my iPad mini 2. I updated both to iOS 8.1.3 yesterday when the update was released.

Give it a few days to normalize. Sometimes right after an upgrade the battery percentage being reported is incorrect.

Try draining your battery to 0% and recharging it to 100% without using it. This will calibrate your battery.

absolutely!!! Had no battery issues until 8.1.3. If someone knows of a fix please let me know. I've done a full restore already without a noticable effect.

I noticed that the Background App Refresh (B.A.R.) option in Settings>General may be still running (although it's grey & "o")

Here's what I did:

Go into Settings> and select an App

Tap the > and if B.A.R. is faded green & "i" then you need to disable it AGAIN

I found my Chrome Browser was still using B.A.R. even though I had Globally disabled it

Go back into Settings>General>B.A.R.

Enable B.A.R.

Disable ALL the apps down the page (yes this is painful if you have a lot of apps like me)

Disable B.A.R. AGAIN

Go back to your App (from the above suggestion)

Verify B.A.R. has been disabled

ALSO

Go to Settings>General>Usage>Battery Usage

This will tell you within the last 24 hours or 7 days which Apps are using the most battery %

I just started to google experiences from others today, as since upgrading three mobiles from 8.1.2 -> 8.1.3 (iPhone 5, iPhone 5s and iPhone 6 Plus) all of them suddenly died overnight.

Charged this morning all from 0% -> 100% and still things don't seem to be correct anymore. Based on below pictures the phones don't go to standby anymore? I haven't used at all iPhone 5 nor iPhone 5s today whereas I made some calls with iPhone 6 Plus. All of mobile were unplugged at 100% same time this afternoon.

First time this has happened, in case the mobiles, ALL of them, suddenly start to behave like this.

br,

P

To give brief idea how ALL three mobiles are behaving just few hours later from previous posting, see below new screen captures. All three mobiles have been idle except occasional check of how fast battery is draining.

iPhone 5:

iPhone 5s:

iPhone 6 Plus:

I think I'm not going to break records battery life wise with iOS 8.1.3.... ARGH.

it is very frustrating, I started having the same issues after 8.1.3 update. What to do? Buttery drawn faster then ever, usage doesn't show real usage:

As you can see battery 76%, it was 100% 3 hrs earlier, I didnt use phone for 12 hrs!!

Whats the problem it can be? I rebooted phone and turned off everything I could to safe battery life, with no avail.

Problems with this update have been reported at other threads including a poster saying battery use had a bug and apple was working on it.

To see if true call apple support.

In general:

Rebooting and force quit are work arounds to clear a problem - they are not solutions to the bug itself.

Anyone having a problem after an update - even if you follow work around instructions - should report that problem as a bug to apple.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/>Apple - Feedback

If you get a crash report - send to apple with what you were doing at the time.

A program can have a bug in it for years through multiple releases. The bug is caught when a user goes down the path that triggers it.

notcloudy wrote:

Problems with this update have been reported at other threads including a poster saying battery use had a bug and apple was working on it.

To see if true call apple support.

Every time there has been an update to iOS, going back over 7 years, a few users have reported problems of a similar nature. It isn't the update; it's something that got borked by the process of updating. I updated to 8.1.3 and my battery life is just as good as it was before the update (which was outstanding, better than any other iPhone I have owned). I've seen fewer reports with this version than with most others. So rather than look for the non-existent problem in 8.1.3, do some basic troubleshooting. Here's the best information I have seen on resolving battery life issues with iOS: http://www.overthought.org/blog/2014/the-ultimate-guide-to-solving-ios-battery-d rain

Rebooting and force quit are work arounds to clear a problem - they are not solutions to the bug itself.

No, rebooting and force quitting are not workarounds; they are solutions to solving the problem of which app is stuck using energy when it shouldn't be. Apps are interrupted by the update. Some apps do not recover gracefully from the interruption.

I was very happy with my battery performance since I have iphone 6 for a few month. I already have everything turned off on the phone that would help to save the battery life. I have tried that link you posted, and found out that my phone has a serious draining battery issues as it says after putting phone in sleep mode and turn on back to check if the time of usage and standby is different. On my phone it shows the same time of usage and standby. Now 14 hrs of standby and usage, buttery drained by 40% since it fully charged, and I barely used the phone. It never happened before.

Whats else can I do?

You need to find the app that is causing the problem. If you have a Microsoft Exchange email account on the phone, turn it off (all switches) in Settings/Mail,Contacts,Calendars. Reboot the phone (hold HOME and SLEEP until an Apple logo appears). Then turn the account back on. If that doesn't resolve it repeat for your iCloud account, and any other Push accounts (Yahoo, Google, Premium Hotmail/outlook.com).

Beyond email, FaceBook is a prime suspect. Delete the account, reboot, reinstall it.

From there it's more hit-and-miss, but there is some app that is causing the drain. Standby=Usage means there is some app that is running continuously. You need to find the app, delete it, reboot, and reinstall it.

As a last restore iOS the phone using iTunes.