Take a look at this chart produced by ArsTechnica that reveals how iOS 7.1 affects the battery life of your mobile device.
The site performed a Wi-Fi browsing test on numerous devices to compare battery life to iOS 7.0.6. Most scores differed by just a few percent which is considered to be within the margin of error.
The first-generation iPad mini is the only one to lose a significant amount of runtime in our test—it gets about 10 percent less life out of a single charge. We'll be running the test again to verify this particular data and will update this article if we see different results. In the meantime, it's probably safe to say that unless something is wrong with your hardware, you'll get about the same battery life out of iOS 7.1 that you got from 7.0.
How has your battery life been on iOS 7.1? Better or worse, let us know in the comments!
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Pomi - March 18, 2014 at 10:09am
Tottally Worse...
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InTheory - March 17, 2014 at 7:39pm
On the first day I saw a 50% drop in charge in 3 hours, after doing what is outlined below I see a 50% drop in 24 hours.
This is what worked for me:
Turn off both location services and background app refresh, let the battery completely discharge. Recharge the battery completely, then turn both location services and background app refresh back on. This made the location services icon vanish and greatly improved the battery life.
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CodeGreen - March 18, 2014 at 3:25pm
You should never let the battery fully discharge, worse thing you could advise people to do.
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InTheory - March 18, 2014 at 6:52pm
It was recommended by Apple tech support. Since the battery can’t be removed, letting it drain to shutdown resets certain iPhone parameters. Draining the battery to shutdown doesn’t harm the battery because there is protection circuitry built in to prevent a complete discharge.
LiIon cells will be damaged if completely discharged and no companies that use them allow this to happen. They either incorporate protection circuitry into their designs or use cells with built in protection circuits.
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Claudio Siegert - March 17, 2014 at 11:47am
I agree that the new IOS 7.1 drain faster the battery life, than IOS 7.0X
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Ahsan Saeed - March 17, 2014 at 5:04am
Iphone 4 update to IOS 7.1 has solved all my problems. No battery problem and the performance has tremendously improved. Good job Apple as always !
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gamerscul9870 - March 17, 2014 at 11:20am
Thank you. :)
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Cuong - March 16, 2014 at 5:19am
I am very disappointed about battery after update to 7.1 . Only 2hrs when i use cellular data. I looking forward a new update to fix it
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gamerscul9870 - March 16, 2014 at 5:22am
That's how it's done. Patience compared to some here.
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ㅁㄴㅇㄹ - March 18, 2014 at 6:52am
2hrs looks like either your battery is impaired or you have some serious background job going on.
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Abdi - March 15, 2014 at 4:11pm
I have been noticed faster battery life tuning out my iPhone 5 since updated new one 7.1 vision
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Cuong - March 15, 2014 at 1:10pm
My battery become worse after i update to 7.1
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Nick Barbe - March 15, 2014 at 12:46pm
I have an iPhone 4 and my battery last less longer than before the update...
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Waley Eweda - March 15, 2014 at 11:59am
iPhone 4S I Am But The Battery Became Better Than B4
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Rohit - March 15, 2014 at 8:34am
Yes my battery just drained out after it reached 20%.
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amier y - March 15, 2014 at 7:44am
i noticed my iPhone 5 battery power drained muich faster after i update it to 7.1
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Dan - March 15, 2014 at 2:33am
4S didn't get the 7.1 update so the battery test is inaccurate
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John - March 15, 2014 at 2:26am
Sorry.4s here.
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John - March 15, 2014 at 2:25am
Worse by a fair amount. What's up with this? Anyone?
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omar.nsy - March 14, 2014 at 10:55pm
iPhone 5S battery woooooooooorse.
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Moe - March 14, 2014 at 10:46pm
iPhone 5-worse on iOS 7.1
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gamerscul9870 - March 14, 2014 at 10:36pm
For those having problems, reset your device, if it doesn't work, then all apple must do now is update the only ones with drain issues.
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aapl - March 14, 2014 at 9:58pm
iPad Mini - better iPhone 5 - worse
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JSON - March 15, 2014 at 12:47am
The opposite. Read the chart, bigger is better. Longer life better....
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gamerscul9870 - March 15, 2014 at 12:48am
Not all devices work the same way, probably the space storage making the difference.
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aapl - March 15, 2014 at 7:41am
Jay, i don't have to look at the diagram when I'm talking about my own devices. The iPad mini is 64, iPhone 5 is 32 GB.
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p3rdav - March 14, 2014 at 9:26pm
iPhone 4, notably better.
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Downs - March 14, 2014 at 8:12pm
Poor battery with iPhone 5s 7.1. I know apple will shoot a fix out though!
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gamerscul9870 - March 14, 2014 at 8:18pm
The bugs are out of the way for me so yeah, how do we let them know?
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Downs - March 14, 2014 at 8:26pm
They're seeing all of these blogs and they understand the problem! It'll be fixed soon.
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gamerscul9870 - March 14, 2014 at 8:38pm
Then how can I make an iOS rumor where they see me, I have a real iOS idea everyone and I mean everyone will love.
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Downs - March 14, 2014 at 9:04pm
Not really sure. You could post it on a website or on a social media website on a tech persons page or something of the sort! Would be a way!
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