Hey Ed, Thanks, that will be another option as I did see a bunch in there that 
I barely use. For now I am keeping it completely disabled as I imagine this is 
an issue that Apple will address in 7.0.1 I just spoke to a sighted friend on 
an iPhone 5 and he said his battery life is awful, so at least it is good to 
know it is not a voiceover specific problem so I imagine a fix will come out 
faster.
On Sep 21, 2013, at 2:55 PM, Edward Green <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> You probably saw in Settings, General, Background App Refresh that you can 
> turn it on or off for specific apps.  If you find that you like having some 
> apps load updates slightly faster, you may want to turn it back on and 
> disable a bunch you don't care about in there that might be draining the 
> battery.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ed
> On 21 Sep 2013, at 19:52, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Yeah Ed I think that might be the problem, as I do have a lot of apps. I 
>> just turned it off, so will see how that affects the battery. Thanks again
>> On Sep 21, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Edward Green <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Brian,
>>> 
>>> YOu may want to try and experiment with background refresh.  YOu can 
>>> control whether individual apps refresh in the background or not.  I 
>>> believe the idea of this feature is to save you time when opening apps, and 
>>> the phone will learn your routines for doing this so that the apps refresh 
>>> appropriately.  However, it sounds as though some of them may be refreshing 
>>> more than you want.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> 
>>> Ed
>>> On 21 Sep 2013, at 19:25, Brian Fischler <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hey all,
>>>> 
>>>> For the most part I really am loving IOS 7. The one thing that is a 
>>>> concern is the battery life is horrible. I typically made it through 
>>>> almost the entire day with not really needing to charge my phone. 
>>>> Yesterday, I barely used it and I had to charge it twice. I am using an 
>>>> iPhone 4S on IOS 7, and know some of you have some fantastic info, and was 
>>>> hoping someone might be able to compile a list of checks to use to get the 
>>>> best battery life. I have turned that new motion option on as I read that 
>>>> saves some battery life. I have closed a lot of the apps in the app 
>>>> switcher especially all GPS apps. I saw someone mention turning off 
>>>> background refresh might save battery life. What am I losing by turning 
>>>> that off, as I thought that was one of the new features that iPhone was 
>>>> pushing, so by turning off I would like to know what I am disabling. I 
>>>> assume it means apps will only refresh when I open them, as I have noticed 
>>>> through out the day I would hear Downcast refresh which I thought was odd, 
>>>> as I have it set to refresh every 8 hours and usually manually refresh it. 
>>>> I do have about 200 apps on my phone so if they are constantly trying to 
>>>> refresh I could see that killing my battery. I have my screen curtain 
>>>> turned on and screen brightness turned down to 33%. 
>>>> 
>>>> Also, if anyone got an iPhone 5S can you let us know howe the battery life 
>>>> is? I plan to get one when the craze dies down, but want to find out if 
>>>> people are having serious battery issues or any other problems.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks all
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