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How's your iPhone 5S battery life
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So is there an improvement over the normal 5? Really annoying having to carry my charger around with me because my 5 only lasts two hours. Genius said it was because I was using spotify a lot, even if the tracks are uploaded it's still using loads of battery.
There's definitely an improvement from the battery. You need to know what to keep on / off, like location services and stuff like that. I initially thought the battery was about the same as iPhone 5, however, I was able to go a whole weekend without charging, and finally made it to 0% last night. I know that the battery calibration needs work though, because sometimes I would get stuck on percentages for ages. I was on 1% for almost 30 minutes.
Contrary to my previous post after only 24hrs with phone and pathetic battery life.... Once fully restored, backed up on iCloud and second full charge to 100%, the current status since last full charge is:
Usage: 3 hours 54 mins (approx 4 hours)
Standby: 17 hours 41 mins
Battery remaining: 50%.
So things improving with every full charge.
Usage: 3 hours 54 mins (approx 4 hours)
Standby: 17 hours 41 mins
Battery remaining: 50%.
So things improving with every full charge.
People obsess over battery life, but never take into consideration that it's a new device! You'll use it more, and especially if you're religiously looking at the battery stats you're probably looking at your lockscreen quite a bit. Enjoy the phone, give it some time.
The great majority of users are seeing fantastic battery life from their 5S's, but there seems to be a select few that aren't doing to well.
So far, my second 5S doesn't seem to be doing much better than my first. It gets maybe an extra half hour of use but it's still unacceptable. I barely used it at all yesterday and it was dead by the time I went to bed. I have confirmed my theory that it's a device issue and not software/ usage based. With the exact same usage as my first 5S, my second consistently gets 30-45 minutes a week. I'll be going back to the Apple Store to get another one either today or tomorrow and will continue to post in this thread if I notice any changes.
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Battery life has significantly improved for me. A typical 8 hour work day would bring the iPhone to about 25% life left ( just enough to make it to the end of the day - midnight to my charger ).
Current iPhone 5S makes it to midnight with 50% charge still left.
Current iPhone 5S makes it to midnight with 50% charge still left.
This is my second 5s still no solution going to apple store again tomorrow
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It varies. On a day when I was mostly outside with good reception, it lasted 11 hours of standby with 4 hours of usage. However on a working day when I constantly used apps and browsed websites in the subway, half of the battery can be consumed in 2.5 hours.
Wow, very similar usage as mine. I'm bringing mine to the apple store as well, this is unacceptable.
I'm wondering how many more iPhones i have to go threw to get a good one apple said that the battery shows working properly but obviously its not if I'm only getting 5hrs usage and barely using it had to turn off mostly everything
Contrary to my previous post after only 24hrs with phone and pathetic battery life.... Once fully restored, backed up on iCloud and second full charge to 100%, the current status since last full charge is:
Usage: 3 hours 54 mins (approx 4 hours)
Standby: 17 hours 41 mins
Battery remaining: 50%.
So things improving with every full charge.
That's great news!
Which restore function did you use?
So far, pretty damn good.
Although I did come from a Samsung Galaxy SIII which was horrendous with battery life.
Not sure if it's because I'm just not on the phone as much as I was on the SIII, but right now it's been lasting longer.
Although I did come from a Samsung Galaxy SIII which was horrendous with battery life.
Not sure if it's because I'm just not on the phone as much as I was on the SIII, but right now it's been lasting longer.
On my 5, I got 5 hours of usage with the 5S (yesterday being my first 100%-1% drain) I got about 7 hours of usage! I do not use wifi much, this is mostly on LTE so I am quite happy.
I kept everything the same (as I restored from icloud) so I just hope this can continue
I kept everything the same (as I restored from icloud) so I just hope this can continue
My battery life on the 5S feels the same as my 5 if not a tad bit worse. Still no where near as bad as when I has the gs4
If the person hasn't used screen off activities that day (such as music, phone calls, etc) then the "usage" statistic will give you an very close approximate of how long the screen has been on.
If the person has used screen off activities that day (such as music, phone calls, etc) then they just need to keep track of how long they used them for and subtract that from the "usage" statistic to figure out screen on time.
