Siri is draining my battery

Having finally managed to cure the Siri drain on my two iPhone SE, iOS 14 and Apple Watch OS14 have managed to mess it up again. My phone was draining faster than expected over the last few days and on checking which apps were causing this, it is Siri on Apple Watch again. Siri is turned off everywhere on my phones and on my watch, so if it is using battery, that is a reintroduced bug, which was only cured with the final versions of OS 13 - wonderful!

Why do you think that Siri is draining the battery?

Have you looked in Settings Battery?

What is the battery health reported there?

Well, as mentioned, in my case 13.4 is much better now.

I will wait a few weeks. If everything is still okay, I thinking about enabling Siri again.

if I don’t keep my phone in low power mode (Siri disconnected) during the day and plugged in it will drain in about 5 hours.

Just started having this problem too but I have just made what may be a significant change. We have a new router. It could well be causing network issues. Could be worth trying a few tests.

you can clearly see that signing out helps.

The battery consumption on my 2 iPhone SE's has also dropped since 13.7 update. Maybe they did finally fix it.

I have exactely the same problem, since a couple of weeks : even with a lock screen for hours, the battery drains twice a usually and Siri is the first on the list.

Battery health is 97%. iPhone Xr with iOs 13.

I tried this 2-3 weeks ago, but the battery drain (ca. 3 hours, maybe 5 if left unused) and Siri listed far and away the biggest culprit still remains.

I'll try this again, but expecting different results is foolish.

How can I delete Siri altogether until Apple gets this fixed?

I read that iOS 14 would address the issue - so I installed it yesterday. When I went to bed last night, battery on my iPad as 100%. Woke up this morning, battery was at 15%. Siri ate up 95% according to the Battery utility.

Apple is usually good at seeing strings like this one and issuing a fix. Waiting patiently.

I am having the same issue as well. Every app and iOS is up to date.

My phone went from lasting close to 2 full days with moderate use... to now lasting a few hours with little use.

Siri is using upwards of 70% of my battery with my phone idle. This is with Siri completely off.

Apple support was not able to solve this issue.

I tried everything support suggested including a few restores from computer then iCloud.

Got a brand new XR and the issue is still happening.

So this is 100% a software issue.

The hardware is brand new with 100% battery capacity.

I still have to work and must now carry a battery back up to use my brand new phone.

An engineer needs to figure this out.

Please!

After a hard restore from iTunes and Siri shut off, my battery is still draining but now it's Mail Background Activity eating it up. I have had to set all mail settings to "manual" but battery life is still far below what is should be for a relatively new iPhone X. I spoke to the Tech Dept. and their solution was to take my phone (and new iPad which is also having problems with battery life) to an Apple Store to have the batteries replaced. I am positive this is NOT a battery problem. Hope they come up with a fix. I shouldn't have to shut Siri off both new devices and set all my mail settings to manual.

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?

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.