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For the past 10 days, battery usage on my iPhone 5 has spiked! I've gone from charging it once a day to needing to charge it three to four times a day. This morning I watched battery life percentage go from 97% to 36% in four hours. I did not make any calls on it during that time. I have tried some experiments to isolate the problem.
     The battery seems to deplete at the same rate if I am on my home WiFi or AT&T's LTE but I have been leaving it on cellular a lot lately becaue the LTE service is fast.
     I see that using bluetooth to stream music from my iPhone to a speaker drains the battery more quickly but lately it drains at a more rapid rate.
     I've turned off a few notifications I don't need with little effect.
     I do have a few weather apps that I have been accessing recently (I live in the midwest) but I have done that with other iPhones in the past.
45 days ago I had to restore the iPhone back to factory settings and start over again because I could not join any wifi network the the entire system slowed. Apple thought it was corrupted software so I had to start over. Today I do not seem to have those problems but battery life is signficantly reduced.
Does anyone have advise as to what do to next other than take it in to the local Apple store for tests?
BTW I have plenty of space left on the iPhone and am running IOS 6.1.4.   Come to think of it, this issue occurred around the time I installed 6.1.4!
Thanks in advance for your advice.
Jay

There can be many reasons, but usually, it's an App issue, not a phone issue. For example, if you have an exchange mail account, it could be constantly trying to push mail. That will certainly drain a bettery fast. If you check you mail account and you see a spinning circle, which doesn't stop, that could be your problem. Often, either rebooting your phone or deleting, then re-entering the mailbox will resolve that. You could also have apps running in the background. Do you routinely fully close apps you are not using. To do so, double tap your home button to bring up the task bar (recently used apps). With your finger, hold it on any of the apps until they jiggle and you an on the upper left side of each app. Touch the to fully close the app.
Finally, during the set up of a phone or the upgrade of iOS, some things don't always port over correctly. Restoring the device and setting it up again, often solves this.

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