Siri is draining my battery

Hi bro, I am experiencing exactly the same issue. It happens on my iPhone XR and iPad Pro 11 2018 as well. Siri consumes about 40~60% battery and Mail comes second. I tried to reset all and even installed the system again through iTunes as per instructions from an Apple expert. None of them works.

Have you found a solution for that?

Same problem here! So annoying! I did a reset because a few of my text message threads just disappeared and after my reset Siri is KILLING my battery even off and on low power mode! 100% down to almost nothing in about 4 hours with use.

Yep mail is draining as well even though I’m set to push. I was able to stop the Siri drain by turning off dictation on my keyboard. I also played a couple songs in the iTunes Store which I supposed to help. I also have turned off Siri completely. My mail is draining my battery more now though...the new update has serious bugs

I solved the Siri problem by doing a hard restore from iTunes and shutting Siri off completely (second time doing a hard restore). However, now Mail Background Activity is eating my battery. This is ridiculous. I have had to change all settings to manual fetch for email and the battery still drains far faster than it should but at least lasts more than four hours. Really hope Apple is working on this. By the number of people complaining about the same problems, it definitely isn't going to be solved by replacing the battery in my new iPhone, which is what Apple Tech Support told me to do despite the fact diagnostics showed the battery is just fine. My new iPad also still drains at a ridiculous rate. I have to power it right off between uses rather than just closing the cover. I am one frustrated Apple customer.

I’m doing both disconnecting Siri and low battery mode and it’s still drained by 1pm. I’ve even gone into each app under Siri and turned off all the Siri functions, and it’s still draining my battery. Wow, Apple, this is awful.

Very, very poor (no) service from Apple. You can watch your battery drain. The phone last a couple of hours most. Not keeping it plugged in over night means a dead phone in the morning. It’s Siri and Mail as in all the other cases.

Apple needs to sort this out ASAP!

Same with my wife’s phone. First it was background mail now Siri. Support thought I was stupid and crazy.

hard resets. Deletes. Wipes. Siri off everywhere. Low power mode. Mail completely deleted. And more. And still drains by the afternoon. An effective paper weight. Totally a software problem. I’ll be looking at androids and others very shortly.

Have reset iPhone and done a fresh install. Didn't set up Siri. Now Mail is draining the battery like there's no tomorrow.

A $1000 premium phone bought new in January is useless as the battery lasts only half a day.

The four year old Huawai my wife uses lasts two days!!!

And Apple is doing NOTHING!

Whatever I do or change on my phone, the battery continues to drain. First I totally shut off Siri, hard restore/reset from iTunes, Siri still off, then it switched to Mail Background Activity draining the battery. Changed all mail settings to manual fetch, then it changed to Contacts draining the battery, and on it goes. The latest battery drain is back to Mail Background Activity, which as I said, is all set to manual fetch only. An expensive, new iPhone now basically functions as a phone only. Contacts also aren't working properly, sometimes won't open and just freeze. I can't use Siri, I have all notifications turned off, all cellular turned off, etc. Each day something new drains the battery. It's better than when Siri was draining it in about 4 hours but it still doesn't hold a charge. When I purchased the phone a few months ago the battery lasted more than 24 hours before a charge was needed, I rarely use the phone for anything but listening to music when I'm out walking. I don't stream on it, I rarely even use it to do anything other than text messaging. With all the feedback messages regarding this issue, I don't understand why Apple hasn't addressed the issue or come up with a fix. Tech Support told me to have a new battery installed, even though diagnostics show the battery is 100%, as it should be on a new phone.

I've changed all mail to manual fetch and mail background activity is still draining the battery. Whatever I modify/turn off, something else then drains the battery. Even Contacts for a while, used up 65% of the charge in less than 3 hours even though on screen for less than 1 minute. Today it is back to Mail Background Activity eating up the charge.

This is all incredibly frustrating as I can not trust the phone to last more than 6 hours. It is brand new and only had about 10 charge cycles. Siri is still showing 70% or more battery use.

Don't know what to do anymore.

I have the exact same issue. Siri using 50-70% battery and Mail coming in at 2nd. I also find that my contacts and other apps have also slowed down and become buggy, to a stage that is has become unusable for work. Its ironic as the problem only started a few weeks ago, as before that, it used to be a perfect phone. It possibly started when it upgraded to 13.4 or maybe from 13.4.1. I have tried all of the above mentioned solution, but still the same. And honestly, why do I have to shut it all off (Siri, Push, manual mail, etc), if it worked perfectly with everything on just a few weeks ago? It is definitely a software issue or there is some change that apple did that is causing these issues on some phones.

I sadly have no more to add than other people. I don’t use Siri more than one « call this person » a day and it takes 80% of my battery all day long. Defitively a software issue that I hope Apple will soon fix. I read on reddit that a lot of users experience the same issue.