It's also in the Control Centre.
Regards Chris
Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof!

On 16 Mar 2014, at 13:46, Les Kriegler <[email protected]> wrote:

> If you don't need to look at the screen, I would recommend turning down 
> screen brightness. You can find that setting in the general option under 
> settings.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Mar 16, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Eileen Misrahi <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi David, 
>> 
>> The battery draining problem is getting worse, so yesterday evening before 
>> going out I charged the phone as much as I could and timed the drainage. It 
>> dropped 35% in a 3 1/2 hour period of time. Hence, I will place my complaint 
>> to Apple accessibility. The phone was completely drained and dead as a 
>> doorknob when I just got up. Where can I find the background refresh to turn 
>> that off? I didn't totally turn off location services, but turned it off in 
>> apps that I didn't need to have it on. What else do I need to do to save on 
>> battery? Thanks. 
>> 
>> Best, 
>> Eileen 
>>> On Mar 16, 2014, at 4:16 AM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I turned off all background refresh. It looks like location services gets 
>>> switched on. This causes 15-20% battery drain per hour, and the GPS antenna 
>>> is the only thing that is this power demanding.
>>> 
>>> Also, it looks as though this is only happening to people running VO. None 
>>> of my sighted friends are having the battery drain problem.
>>> 
>>> So, turn off background app refresh. Also, very regularly close apps from 
>>> the app switcher. Finally, email accessibility so they will hopefully soon 
>>> test this and find the problem.
>>> 
>>> One thing we do know, Apple does repair these sorts of problems when they 
>>> figure out what is going on. Unfortunately, they usually don't role out an 
>>> update when the problem is only with VO, so we will most likely be waiting 
>>> a few months before the problem is resolved. 
>>> 
>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>> Email: [email protected]
>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>> 
>>>> On 16 Mar 2014, at 17:10, david gross <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> I am using an iPhone for S. I wrote previously while I'm Wi-Fi and 
>>>> streaming radio I am using 16% battery per hour. I called Apple tonight 
>>>> they have me doing iCloud restore. It made it worse I'm now using 20% per 
>>>> hour. I am curious what other folks are finding in a similar situation. 
>>>> Apple is suggesting a new restore from the computer. I do not want to do 
>>>> this. Suggestions are appreciated.
>>>> 
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