How is your iPhone 5 battery life?

[Dennisgarcia]

My battery life so far

 

[LCW]

Going strong...

 

[TalkingDeer]

After 3 hours usage and 9.5 hours standby, I'm at 77%. LTE almost always on. It's better than my 4S battery life

 

[cynpic1]

mine is amazing! switched from HTC One, battery was dead in 5-6 hours. iPhone 5 lasts all day, and even if left on overnight without charging! and I'm a heavy user of data...

 

[_marlam]

Surprisingly mine gives me normally 24+ hours without needing to be charged. I'm quite a heavy user which is great considering with my iPhone 4 I struggled to get past lunch time without heading for the red.

 

[lordeagle]

I'm having terrible battery life. I unplugged my phone from the charger at 8:30am this morning, it's now 2:47pm and I have exactly 50% left.
Usage: 2hrs 57mins, Standby: 5hrs 49mins

To be fair, I've been setting up my iPhones (3G, 3GS, 4 then 5) by Restoring from Backup so there's probably some old crap being passed along. If I go ahead and Setup As New, is it possible to bring the Text messages over? That's the main reason I'm restoring from backups every time is that I do not want to lose my text messages. Everything else is in the cloud or my Mac and can be restored.

Thanks!

 

[CandyBean]

all my iPhone battery life is really good, including the iPhone 5. I think compared to the 4, it's a bit less amazing, prolly due to LTE, but it's still better than any Droid phones I've used.

 

[myexpert]

mine becomes very hot when an using it and suddenly pops up

 

[Scatabrain]

Very good. No noticeable downgrade from 4s. Much better then Nexus.

 

[vrs626]

Battery life is pathetic. Anything that requires cellular data burns battery at 1 percent every 2 minutes. Really disappointed in my first iPhone.

 

[taylorz_412]

Battery life is pathetic. Anything that requires cellular data burns battery at 1 percent every 2 minutes. Really disappointed in my first iPhone.

That's the magic of LTE

 

[Fausty82]

Not horrible, and getting better....

 

[br_alm]

This is my first iPhone. Just switched from a Gnex. At first I was disappointed with battery life, but after a few tweaks I'm at 27% with over 7h of usage. I don't have LTE though, and I mainly use wifi (which I leave always on). The tweaks I made were pretty common sense:

- Turned off location services for anything I don't actually use
- Turned off the synching of pictures between iDevices (I have an iPad)
- Turned off the use of GPS for system services that aren't really relevant and also the tracking for advertisement purposes
- Airplane mode at overnight when not charging.

 

[vrs626]

That's the magic of LTE

I get the exact same results if I turn off LTE and use 3G instead.

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Not horrible, and getting better....

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You're on wifi though, right? I haven't seen any complaints of battery life over wifi. What results are you getting on cellular data with wifi off?

 

[Fausty82]

You're on wifi though, right? I haven't seen any complaints of battery life over wifi. What results are you getting on cellular data with wifi off?

I'm on wifi about 30-40% of the time... LTE the rest.

 

[br_alm]

With 1%:

Usage: 9h15m (amazing)
Idle: 1d7h

 

[Mattmead23]

The iPhone 5 is my first iPhone but I have had the iPad 2 and now the new iPad. I'm on my phone all day for work and pleasure and it will never last a day. It was fully charged at 4pm GMT and now at 21.50pm it's down to 12%. Thought it would be better than this but still love it!!!

 

[anon(2353369)]

Here's a picture of my battery, , I used Safari, Facebook, Texting, Pandora, Email today which the battery life did last me all day over 8 hours of standby time.

 

[Natemz]

Love this battery life.

 

[Jack Hard]

Battery life is very very good. but that map is not good