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 <ergreen1...@gmail.com> 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 <blindga...@gmail.com> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > 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 macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
