Wow speaking of battery life since I had a battery issue not long ago that puzzled me.
Surprisingly after doing the update my phone lasted nearly 50 hours before dying and needing a charge. I am curious to find out if that was just a ha, good luck day after the upgrade since I'm letting it do a complete recharge now since I don't need to go anywhere today it can sit and charge and I'll see if I'm lucky again. May and Prince Noah www.canadianlynx.ca On 2013-09-21, at 2:52 PM, 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 >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
