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 10:11am
TottLly Worse on 7.1
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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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Effrem Montanari - March 16, 2014 at 11:51pm
Solution is get a new phone!!
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gamerscul9870 - March 17, 2014 at 12:12am
Or a mophie pack.
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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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appleshxt - March 15, 2014 at 11:22am
One thing I have learned somewhere is that over the air updates seem to introduce this battery burning bug since iOS 6. I have a 64GB 5S and went to sleep last night with 4% woke up this morning at 2%. Usage time for me was 8hrs 03mins and standby was 1day 2hrs. Restore on iTunes people there are only 43 comments on this website you are the minority I don't see these problems y'all speak of
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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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Nguyên Đinh Lam - March 15, 2014 at 2:55am
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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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Bugged Out - March 14, 2014 at 11:20pm
Anddddddd the meaningless anecdotal reports trickle in.
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