Siri is draining my battery

It's all over the Internet. I read an article about it in Forbes the other day. But if you call Apple support all they come up with is something like "Well, that's interesting. We've never heard of it ..."

As stated previously, it's the damage to battery health that is worrying me most, because I'm sure they'll fix it sooner or later. They can't just ignore it forever. And since our devices worked ok at some time, they simply need to get their software right.

It would be really nice if Apple would highlight the Bugs they fix. All of these suggestions were pretty bogus. I was having the same issues. Overnight I was losing sometimes 50% of the charge. I just updated to 13.5. I turned Siri back on and I only dropped about 5%. Things look much better.

Good day rspencer629,

Thank you very much for taking the time to give us the feedback. Greatly appreciated. I am having the exact same issue as you had, and like many others, but unfortunately I am in South Africa, and international calls to US support is prohibitive. I wish there was a written solution we could all follow to resolve the issue.

Will try our local support, but if by any change you may recall the steps you followed, would be really helpful.

Sadly the 13.5.1 update is not the hoped for answer. Even though Siri is turned off everywhere on my phone settings, it is still eating battery capacity, so must be active somewhere, churning away in the background. The odd thing is that the iPhone SE I have for my French mobile account (fat lot of good that has been this year), although seemingly mirroring the settings of my UK iPhone SE, uses less Siri battery but still some. Why Apple cannot put in a simple setting switch: "Siri off ABSOLUTELY EVERYWHERE" escapes me, unless it is being used for more nefarious tracking and spying purposes, than just answering questions and voice activation of apps, etc.

Someone else told me about the gmail issue, so I have had turned off on my phone for months. I have now gone through all the Siri reporting which seems to show every app you have ever had on an iPhone over the last 13 years, present or not on current phone. It has taken me close to 30 minutes to go through and turn them off on each app. I have also turned off Siri in widgets. It's not "Kill Bill", hopefully it's "Kill Siri"

I had the same problem with my brand new iPhone 11 and iOS and 13.5.1. I've done the "reset all settings" and deactivated Siri but nothing helped. Yesterday I did set up the iPhone from scratch and without any backup. Now it works perfectly. Obviously it was related to my backup of my old iPhone 7 Plus.

I have been having battery problems for a long time on a new iPhone X and a new iPad. Tech. support said to get new batteries which is ridiculous for new devices which both show the batteries are at 100%. First I shut Siri off completely, then it was mail background activity draining the battery. Set all mail to manual fetch only and now it is Contacts sucking the battery. Contacts are also freezing when I try to use them or update them. I am ready to throw both devices away, it's so frustrating. iPhone and iPad won't sync either, no matter what I do. Can't believe they haven't come up with a fix for this problem yet. I get several emails a day showing that others are encountering the same problems. C'mon Apple, fix this!

Still drains EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!

From 40+ % battery at 11pm to off in the morning at 6am. Shame on you, Apple, for ignoring, denying and belittling what is a massive, structural bug that renders your crap phones if not completely useless to little more than a paperweight. This is soooo far from anything „premium“ ...

Thank you for posting this. I was having all of these same problems for about 3-4 weeks. After reading your post, I remembered turning on Google contacts sync around that same time. My contacts were always freezing, Siri was draining my battery and mail background was also. I turned off Google Contacts and the ICloud sync for contacts. I also turned off Siri under the contacts settings and my phone is back to normal! I can’t believe it. I was so frustrated thes last few weeks! I’m thinking about turning Siri back on today to test it but it still makes me nervous. Thanks again!

I tried this approach and so far it has been half a day without any battery drain. I think you solved the mystery. I did “reset all settings” a few days ago and the problem still persisted. I just turned off icloud sync for contacts. Will monitor for a week and turn it back on just to test.

Thanks!