How's your iPhone 5S battery life

[viperGTS]

I have an update:

After I restored my 5s, I set the phone up as new, only restoring my SMS with iBackupBot, installing my most needed apps manually, and restoring their data with iFunbox. Despite my initial impressions (I thought my battery life improved), my battery life is nearly identical to what it was before the restore. My settings:

• Background App Refresh is OFF for all apps
• Location services is on for Maps, Siri, Vine, Weather, and Find My iPhone.
- System Services: Traffic and Frequent Locations ON, all others are off. Improve Maps is also enabled.
• I have 9 apps enabled in Notification Center.
• Fetch New Data for my 3 mail accounts is set to OFF. All accounts have push disabled, and are set to Manual fetch.

As you can see, I'm turning off most of the features to conserve battery.

Last charge, I was surfing the web and probably watching some videos, and I avoided playing any games just so I could conserve battery and see how far my usage could go. Still got about 6 hours and a half hours of usage with a day of standby. I could almost count the percent dropping.

Do you guys think I should take a trip to the Apple store to see if I can get a replacement phone? I'm disappointed in this battery life. I hear of others getting 8-9 hours of usage with more features enabled than I. What do you guys think?

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Than it depends strictly from the use you do. For example, today i played all day with CSR, a racing game, my 5s did almost 7 hours of usage, so far from the +10 hrs i get with normal use. But i'm now thinking, may be that there are "lucky" batteries? I mean maybe you have to be lucky and get the battery that has been produced by the most reliable company (we all know that not only one company produce batteries for iphones)

7 hours while playing a 3D intensive game all day? I'd be lucky to get 5-6 hours. The 10-hour battery life is for things like web surfing over LTE/Wi-Fi, or watching videos. Which I still can't even get...

 

[Kaelbron]

A lot of the "dos and don't" of how and when to charge/discharge batteries are holdovers from before the days of modern lithium ion and lithium polymer batteries. You can pretty much charge and discharge your battery however you want. For instance, when I received my 5s, it came with about 70% charge. I used it for a bit, bringing the charge down to about 60%, but then I charged it up to 100% right before bed to see how much power it would lose in standby overnight. It was still at 100% when I woke up about 6 hours later, but went to 99% pretty much as soon as I started using it.

Anyway, I think the only things that really hurt modern batteries (besides the obvious, like physical damage or temperature extremes) are overcharging (which most devices including the 5s don't let you do, as they are programmed to know when they are fully charged), TOTALLY discharging the battery (which again, modern devices don't let you do because they will shut themselves down when the charge is dangerously low), or not letting the battery charge/discharge regularly, which is typically not a problem with a mobile device that one probably uses daily.

Hi there,
I forgot to answer you. I did not remember how much battery it was in mine when I got it, I guess it was a little more than half say 70 and I used it some during the first hours by calling, install apps etc.. I connect it to the computer for it to get wifi sync with iTunes.

I have every day always charged it every night you shall sleep for it to be fully charged. Yesterday I was tired and I forgot and dried never connect it so i was wondering if i should do out of battery and making my first discharge? When do you usually / you make your first discharges?

Merry Christmas!

 

[MacLappy]

How's your iPhone 5S battery life

Had a day off today, used my iPhone extensively in an attempt to drain its battery. From surfing the web, reading emails, iMessages, What's app, Facebook, watching anime online, YouTube, gaming(RR3), reading ebooks and making phone calls. Manage to get in down to 9%. Was mostly on wifi, except for about 5hrs that I was out of the house and about(LTE). More impressive that I first imagine.

 

[djplaxe2109]

Not great all of a sudden. 100% LTE with brightness at about 40%. Texting, Tweetbot, and light web surfing.

 

[mattyu007]

My 5s's battery life has been seriously nosediving over the past few days from almost acceptable to ????.

For example, here's 3 hours of checking items off today in Reminders:

 

[jj03]

Has a day off today, used my iPhone extensively in an attempt to drain its battery. From surfing the web, reading emails, iMessages, What's app, Facebook, watching anime online, YouTube, gaming(RR3), reading ebooks and making phone calls. Manage to get in down to 9%. Was mostly on wifi, except for about 5hrs that I was out of the house and about(LTE). More impressive that I first imagine. Image

That is quite impressive!! Only i wished if my phone had the same stats.

 

[Amiz]

My battery is appalling, I have location services, bluetooth, app refresh, parallax effect, iMessage, FaceTime all switched off and Brightness is always low.

I admit, I do a lot of wifi browsing and playing games...

Standby - 46 mins
Usage - 5 hrs 13 mins

Replacement?

 

[sflomenb]

My battery is appalling, I have location services, bluetooth, app refresh, parallax effect, iMessage, FaceTime all switched off and Brightness is always low.

I admit, I do a lot of wifi browsing and playing games...

Standby - 46 mins
Usage - 5 hrs 13 mins

Replacement?

What percentage?

 

[SHirsch999]

I'm not sure how to post the screen shot, but I'm pretty happy with my iPhone 5s' battery. My usage is pretty lite, texting/messaging, e-mail, calls, some internet, work uses, etc, certainly not as much as others on here. My average usage is about 4-5 hours over 3-4 days. I usually go almost 3 full days between charging the phone. To me, that is preferable compared to using my phone literally all day and charging every night. My phone works for me, not the other way around.

 

[MacinAppleTosh]

Checked my battery usage on my month old 5s and found this.

 

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[corvus32]

I'm getting two and sometimes three days between charges, so no complaints here.

 

[Max(IT)]

Here's something interesting: I used a program called iBackupBot, which, other than managing iPhone backups, can display certain information about your iPhone. I used this program to determine how many battery charge cycles I have been through, as well as determine my phone's remaining battery capacity. Here is what I found:

CycleCount: 70 (I'm guessing this is charge cycles)
DesignCapacity: 1550 (Guessing max capacity, which fits the reports of the 5s's 1550 mAh battery)
FullChargeCapacity: 1497 (My current capacity as a result of natural battery degradation due to charging and other factors)

Remember how Apple states that that after 500 charge cycles, the phone should be able to maintain 80% of it's original capacity? That means that after 500 charges, I should be at (1550 * .8) mAh for my FullChargeCapacity, which is 1240. After 70 charges, I'm at 1497. The difference between the max and current capacity of my battery is 53, meaning that my capacity dropped 53 mAh after 70 cycles. After doing some math, assuming the degradation is linear (I'm not sure if it is or not), after 490 charges (multiplying the ratio of 70 cycles/53 mAh lost by 7/7) my capacity will be only at 1179 mAh, not that close to Apple's 1240. And that's only 490 charges, not 500.

Of course, things in real life are usually exponential and not linear, so I can only hope that the battery degradation is going to slow down at some point in time. I'm going to try a restore to see if that will fix my battery life problems.

EDIT: Guess what? It just dropped 2 more after a restore. So now I'm at 1495 mAh capacity.

Battery degradation isn't linear and ibackupbot is not so accurate (there are variations on every read depending on battery charge level).

 

[HEK]

The regular ol' Prius is not lithium ion, i believe its metal hydride?

In 2012 the Prius switched to lithium ion. Before it was metal hydride, which needs periodic full discharge and recharge or it takes a set. The lithium ion batteries prefer partial discharge recharges. Why the control module cycles between the 40 to 80 percent.

Lithium ion is more expensive, about $3000 in the Prius. It also is more sensitive to temperature extremes. In the Volt, that also use lithium ion, there is a cooling/heating system to keep the batteries from reaching extremes.

 

[Prof.]

Checked my battery usage on my month old 5s and found this.

You must have gotten one of those nuclear powered iPhones apple has been working on by mistake.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I've had it for 3 full days. Battery life has been consistent so far. I've been getting about 15-16 hours in standby and 7-8 hours of usage.

 

[Max(IT)]

I've had it for 3 full days. Battery life has been consistent so far. I've been getting about 15-16 hours in standby and 7-8 hours of usage.

For me is about 18-20 hrs standby and 7 of usage, way better than my previous iPhone 5 on iOS 7.

 

[henriasdf]

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[ABC5S]

I only use text sparingly. Few calls. No movies, No YouTube. No music. Some weather, some SIRI, very few web look ups. Absolutely no games on such as small screen. Not a kid anymore.

 

[I7guy]

In 2012 the Prius switched to lithium ion. Before it was metal hydride, which needs periodic full discharge and recharge or it takes a set. The lithium ion batteries prefer partial discharge recharges. Why the control module cycles between the 40 to 80 percent.

Lithium ion is more expensive, about $3000 in the Prius. It also is more sensitive to temperature extremes. In the Volt, that also use lithium ion, there is a cooling/heating system to keep the batteries from reaching extremes.

I had a 2011 and was positive it was metal hydride. Appreciate the confirmation.

 

[1213]

Mine has been great. I upgraded from the iPhone 5 to this. I am 17 so that somewhat tells you how much I am on my phone. I use it all day nonstop and I usually have about 25% left. I always have full bars though. I know if you have really poor service it makes your battery die faster. Also, turn off your background app refresher in the general part of settings. And turn of your location services. If you absolutely need them on for a certain app, turn everything else off including going under system services and turning all that off.

 

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[catean]

3 days combined on Vodafone UK in London with 40 minutes a day of Spotify over 3G, 20 minutes of calls, 1 hour of iMessage and 1 hours of browsing per day. It is the best iPhone i ever used battery wise.

 

[adamj575]

I'm totally surprised how much better my battery seems on my 5s than my 5!

 

[jj03]

Do u guys think the 7.1 ios release would improve the battery.