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Ask your stupid iOS 7 question here!

Hey guys,

I've got a 5S with the latest iOS7 update.

I'm having an extremely frustrating problem with battery usage.

I charge my phone at night and when I wake up, go to work I leave for work at 7:30am, my battery is down to 70% before I even have morning tea (10am) and this is with no use at all. My battery is dead by 2pm!
I had a 4S previously, and never had this trouble. My battery will still have 50 -60% by the end of the day!

I've noticed if I turn off my cellular data my battery is better, but I can't seem to find which app might be draining my battery?

Any help apprciated!

Cheers,
Nathan.
 
nateofmelb said:
Hey guys,

I've got a 5S with the latest iOS7 update.

I'm having an extremely frustrating problem with battery usage.

I charge my phone at night and when I wake up, go to work I leave for work at 7:30am, my battery is down to 70% before I even have morning tea (10am) and this is with no use at all. My battery is dead by 2pm!
I had a 4S previously, and never had this trouble. My battery will still have 50 -60% by the end of the day!

I've noticed if I turn off my cellular data my battery is better, but I can't seem to find which app might be draining my battery?

Any help apprciated!

Cheers,
Nathan.
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Have you turned off Background App Refresh? That's a real battery drainer.

Here's what I did the moment I got my 5S and it has really helped:

- turn off Background Refresh
- turn off unused System Services (traffic, time zone, etc.)
- unable certain apps in Location services
- turn on Reduce Motion in accessibility
- turned on Limit Ad Tracking
 
Ann P said:
Have you turned off Background App Refresh? That's a real battery drainer.

Here's what I did the moment I got my 5S and it has really helped:

- turn off Background Refresh
- turn off unused System Services (traffic, time zone, etc.)
- unable certain apps in Location services
- turn on Reduce Motion in accessibility
- turned on Limit Ad Tracking
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Hey, thanks for your reply.

I actually did a bit of searching on here and found this. I followed these steps and will trial it out and see how I go.
 
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Ask your stupid iOS 7 question here!

How does Block Contact feature works? I blocked one contact, but still get obnoxious SMSs from them. Does the feature work on calls only?

And another question. On June 10, there was a promise that we won't be needing to deal with notifications on all our devices, for example you had a reminder set up, and it was synced between iPhone and iPad, and popped on both devices simultaneously. And you could mark the reminder as done on one device, and it would be marked as done automatically on the other. Did they had a change of heart? I still have to deal with reminders, notifications, calendar events etc. on both my devices.

And does anybody else experiencing mail sync problems? I read an email on one iDevice but it still shows icon badge on the other! So annoying.

I am starting to hate iOS 7, regret upgrading deeply. With iOS 6, everything just worked!:(
 
Stupid Question Here:

I programmed a custom vibration for texts. It works when the messages app isn't open, but I get the standard vibration when the app is open.

Please tell me there is a way to give messages a custom vibration when the app is open.
 
Tyler23 said:
It only works with the iPhone 4S, 5, iPod touch 5g, iPad Mini, and iPad 3 and 4.
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I am running iOS 7 on iPad 2 and I have the parallax 3D effect working on mine. I think any device having an accelerometer will have the parallax effect enabled as the accelerometer follows the physical movement of the device.
 
Didz81 said:
I am running iOS 7 on iPad 2 and I have the parallax 3D effect working on mine. I think any device having an accelerometer will have the parallax effect enabled as the accelerometer follows the physical movement of the device.
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No. It does not work on the iPhone 4. I know because I have one.
 
Sister Owl said:
How does Block Contact feature works? I blocked one contact, but still get obnoxious SMSs from them. Does the feature work on calls only?

And another question. On June 10, there was a promise that we won't be needing to deal with notifications on all our devices, for example you had a reminder set up, and it was synced between iPhone and iPad, and popped on both devices simultaneously. And you could mark the reminder as done on one device, and it would be marked as done automatically on the other. Did they had a change of heart? I still have to deal with reminders, notifications, calendar events etc. on both my devices.

And does anybody else experiencing mail sync problems? I read an email on one iDevice but it still shows icon badge on the other! So annoying.

I am starting to hate iOS 7, regret upgrading deeply. With iOS 6, everything just worked!:(
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Did you block the contact in messages or just phone? There are different blocks for calls, messages, and even FaceTime.

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Italianblend said:
Stupid Question Here:

I programmed a custom vibration for texts. It works when the messages app isn't open, but I get the standard vibration when the app is open.

Please tell me there is a way to give messages a custom vibration when the app is open.
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The in app sounds/vibrations are different and can't be changed as far as I recall--they can't even be turned off either, which is tether annoying.
 
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notrack said:
Photos app settings: does anyone know what the toggle in "Section Photos" is for? I thought I could get rid of the 3x3 px image overview (years etc.). But it still shows up when I turn it off.
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You mean "summarize photos?" I think when you have many photos that are similar, it will show one as a representation of all the ones that are alike. I guess I don't have enough photos to matter because it looks the same to me.
 
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Squilly said:
I signed in just to upvote these two comments LOL

@ OP, can old apps (meant for 4S and below) still work with iOS 7 or will Apple remove them soon?
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What do you mean by apps meant for 4S? As in apps that are compatible with iOS 6 or even earlier? Those can definitely work in iOS 7. It's not likely Apple would remove anything unless something is horribly wrong with the app for some reason or the app developer removes it themselves.
 
Tiptizzle said:
You mean "summarize photos?" I think when you have many photos that are similar, it will show one as a representation of all the ones that are alike. I guess I don't have enough photos to matter because it looks the same to me.
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Not sure, translation challenge here. Settings (3rd from top) say something like this, what I don't understand:

Section "photos"
Photo overview
In the section "photos" all your photos in your media collection are displayed in all views. You can select compact overview-displays of your collections and years.
 

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notrack said:
Not sure, translation challenge here. Settings (3rd from top) say something like this, what I don't understand:

Section "photos"
Photo overview
In the section "photos" all your photos in your media collection are displayed in all views. You can select compact overview-displays of your collections and years.
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Yeah. That's the one I'm talking about. Does nothing for me right now that I can tell. I'm assuming it will use one photo to represent many if you have a lot of photos.
 
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In iOS6 it used to show the solid blue dot for unwatched, partial dot for not yet completely watched and no dot for fully watched, but how can I do this for movies now in iOS7? Oh these are movies coped to the device using iTunes...
 
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Am I correct in thinking that in Notification Center, at the top where it tells you the weather, isn’t it also supposed to tell you how long it would take you to get home or to work?

I have Location Services turned on, and when I then go to System Services and then Frequent Locations, my iPhone 5 has already learnt my ‘Home’ location and also my ‘Work’ locations.

I am sure I have seen pics of Notification Center whereby there is a message saying ‘It would take you 1 hour to get home right now’ – or I am imagining things…?!
 
Dino F said:
Am I correct in thinking that in Notification Center, at the top where it tells you the weather, isn’t it also supposed to tell you how long it would take you to get home or to work?

I have Location Services turned on, and when I then go to System Services and then Frequent Locations, my iPhone 5 has already learnt my ‘Home’ location and also my ‘Work’ locations.

I am sure I have seen pics of Notification Center whereby there is a message saying ‘It would take you 1 hour to get home right now’ – or I am imagining things…?!
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Yes it does do that but it can take a while to gather the information it needs, some folk seem to think thats about 2 to 3 weeks before things start showing up.
 
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