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How's your iPhone 5S battery life

I think the battery life on the iPhone 5s is very disappointing. Worst battery life of any new iphone we've had.

Whether the battery, phone or iOS 7.0.x is to blame???

iPhone 5s again thinner and smaller, supposedly with energy savings in the cpu etc. we would still get the same great (?) battery life with 10 hrs of active use.

Bullocks.

Log into the phone and it will drop to 99- 98 pretty much rightaway. Browse the web. Check your mail. Get the weather forecast. Get some directions. You can watch it drop 1% every couple minutes. It is just nuts.

That is running minimal brightness, no background refresh, no notifications, no parallax, reduced motion, fixed background, ...

I had to dig into more obscure and advanced settings than ever before to stop the thing from draining itself in a few hours. Plus locations off, ads off, airdrop off, ...

Now it is still dropping 10-15% before the hour is over, with minimal use over wifi, which is just ridiculous. Doing the same on a several year old iPad it loses a few % per hour. In fact, I have seen the iPhone 5s drop as much in stanby as the iPad in active use!

I hope Apple can fix things with a point update very soon ... but right now I am not impressed. Yes, the phone is fast, but even minimal use on low brightness kills it as fast as a several year old iphone that's been throuh countless partial and full cycles.
 
Mine... strange pattern

To everyone showing over 1h of use at 90% what's your long-term like? -- I get that every time; today it was 1h 8min at 90%...

Then it seems to drain the meter faster after that and I've only ever gotten between 5-6 hrs of usage.

My 5S is a couple of hours worse then my 4S with same usage patterns... all my buddies have reported about the same experience, even some with their iP5, so I don't think mine's a dud. It doesn't drain much *at all* on standby which I do like.

I will also say that my gf has a 5C and consistently gets an hour or two more than I do... I guess it's what we get for choosing a "faster" phone...?
 
It's always around 6.5 hours.
I tried disabling GPS/Location Services but it didn't make any difference. Even if I leave WiFi on all the day (I have WiFi at home and at work) it makes no difference.
 
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Is this normal? Seems like it is running down too quickly...this is with using it to text, send a couple of snapchats, and very minimal browsing (maybe for 2-3 min total)...brightness is set at about 30%
 
Start of the evening. Barely touched the phone on wifi, 45min = -10% for just light browsing and checking a few apps. On wifi. Sitting on the couch, with every service off LTE, locations, ... short of cellular itself.

If I do the same on my iPad it drops 2-3%/hr! Sigh.

The only additional thing I am noting is the cell dots keep changing from 2, to sometimes 1, then 3. There is only one tower nearby, so maybe it just keeps looking for a better signal, while there is none? Wasting precious battery life.

I really think that making the phones aggressively thinner and lighter, instead of using some space savings for a bigger battery is becoming problematic. Everybody you know and meet online has to turn several features off to make it through a day. Completely counter to the smart and interactive aspects of the devices.
 
Got to charge it at least once by half day, battery is decent but nothing to brag about. Funny how apple always say the battery is betters
 
This is what I got yesterday and today. I actually left Bluetooth on all day, and this was with somewhat heavy usage.
I spent about 4 hours on the phone, streamed podcast today for about 4 hours while looking at flipboard, MR, and internet simultaneously. This was wifi and LTE as I ran errands for a few hours earlier.
Plus all the other random things I do and getting notifications for other apps.

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Mine

Although 0% brightness and used only for texting.

This is good?
 

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First time draining the battery down to 0%. This is mostly browsing on Wifi, some LTE browsing, atleast an hour of games, and some camera usage. Should become better after first battery cycle.
 

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HoosBruce said:
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Is this normal? Seems like it is running down too quickly...this is with using it to text, send a couple of snapchats, and very minimal browsing (maybe for 2-3 min total)...brightness is set at about 30%
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Defenitely not normal. Get it checked at an Apple Store.
 
This is the last day and a half. Moderate use mostly LTE, no BT, auto bright 50%, could probably get at least another hour give or take.

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moldy lunchbox said:
It'd be good if you hadn't of charged your phone. "iPhone has been plugged in since the last full charge."
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Yup, I charge at full 100% until drain to 1% thats all.
Actually thats may first charge when I get my phone.

But now, I used it for texting, wifi and games.

Remaining: 31%
Usage: 5 hours 47 minutes
Standby: 1 Day 9 hours

Pretty bad.
 
My last iPhone 5 easily lasted for a full day, but my two weeks old 5S won't last a day at all. I have turned off the M7 sensor and all background apps except mail.
 
Say what you want - but the battery life is far from great with iPhones. You'll get a full day - but only when you are careful with your usage.

Apple really needs to ship a larger phone - with a bigger battery. There are Android alternatives that - granted aren't as portable - but perform way better in that area ( LG G2 ).

I won't buy a new iPhone unless it will feature a radically improved battery life. Thats the only feature i need. No need for a faster thinner phone that just gives up on me at 3pm.*
 
kave said:
My last iPhone 5 easily lasted for a full day, but my two weeks old 5S won't last a day at all. I have turned off the M7 sensor and all background apps except mail.
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How do you turn off the M7 Coprocessor?
 
icerabbit said:
I really think that making the phones aggressively thinner and lighter, instead of using some space savings for a bigger battery is becoming problematic. Everybody you know and meet online has to turn several features off to make it through a day. Completely counter to the smart and interactive aspects of the devices.
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+1. Who cares if something is now 2% thinner/lighter than the previous gen, does it really make much (if any) of a difference to the user? The majority couldn't care less or even notice the difference in the first place. Manufacturers need to balance form over functionality/usability and sort out their priorities.
 
moldy lunchbox said:
First time draining the battery down to 0%. This is mostly browsing on Wifi, some LTE browsing, atleast an hour of games, and some camera usage. Should become better after first battery cycle.
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That's really good. I WISH I could get that kind of battery life on my 5S. Are you in an area of good coverage? What do your settings look like (Background App Refresh, etc.)?
 
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