iOS 7 B2, better battery, yes or no?

[Bobajobbob]

Beta 2 battery life is significantly better than beta 1 for me. Not quite as good as iOS6 but not far off. Good enough that I am able to run it on my day to day phone. I have turned off Traffic, Popular near me and Frequent locations from location services but otherwise am using the phone normally.

 

[coffeemadmanUK]

So far yes, better battery.

Though I have now turned off dynamic wallpapers and the parallax so that might also be having an effect.

 

[daviddth]

Yes I think it may actually be better here but I can't show time since last charge as when phone reap rings after a crash that number gets erased. At the moment I have 25% battery left after roughly 38 hours standby and last I looked it had 7 hours of light use.

 

[HeyKatie]

I can't tell if mine is better or worse because it never shows my batter stats even after a full recharge.

 

[Damolee]

Not that great here. Not as good as iOS 6. Turned Parallax off, traffic location services and a few others. Use to get about an hours usage per 10% battery roughly. Evened out to around 8 hrs. Won't get that here. Shame.

 

[Damolee]

Well that's more like it. Sorted.

Installed iOS 6, did iCloud restore. Created a new back up in iTunes.

Installed iOS 7 beta 1 and restored from the new back up, then run the OTA to 2. Perfecto!

Apps are going to look superb in this once the final GM is out.

 

[SanjeevRana]

Disabled Location Services for weather and disabled Background Refresh for both and now battery on Beta 2 is phenomenal !!!!

(All the usage below is iTunes Radio streaming over LTE, little Safari, Whatsapp as usual , few iMessages and Calls, little FB)