Siri is draining my battery

For me the answer was my Apple Watch, if you have Siri enabled on your Apple Watch you will see Siri usage in battery settings, tested, confirmed by me.

edit: keep in mind that the “battery percentage” of usage that is shown in the battery usage app is very misleading, the % is of the battery lost Siri is responsible of a different %.

Turning off iCloud CONTACT sync and then back on again worked for me. Had spent 4 weeks with horrendous battery drain on iPhone 11 Pro.

Thankfully I worked it out for myself, because the best Apple Support could do was tell me to wait for an iOS update or reset to factory settings and see up iPhone as new without a back up!

I have had this issue with my iPad 11 Pro as well. Apple even replaced the device because the battery life was so bad. But the replacement unit has the exact same problem.

I ran a head-to-head test with my iPad mini (2014) and my iPad Pro (2018, received new in December 2019), and the mini trounced the Pro. My guess is that this is some sort of software issue that is in the OS the new Pro runs but not I’m the OS the old mini runs.

I wrote up the results here: https://medium.com/macoclock/ipad-battery-test-surprise-ipad-mini-trounces-ipad-pro-e473f0619e9f

This is a huge embarrassment. When Steve Jobs announced the iPad in 2010, he touted the standby battery life as over a month. Now here we are ten years later and the top-of-the-line Pros don’t even last half that.

I think the worst battery scandal is the Apple Pencil, where Apple made the totally inexplicable decision to use a non-protected lithium battery for it. This means that if you don't use it for a couple of months and forget to charge it, when you do come to try and charge it, the battery will have dropped below the minimum recharge voltage and will no longer accept a charge. This is the sort of thing you expect on cheap far eastern rechargeable torches, not on an expensive product like the Apple Pencil. People have commented that there was not room for the over-discharge protection circuit. So does that mean that to satisfy design or aesthetic considerations, it is permissible to sell a poor and unreliable product? Steve Jobs would be spinning in his grave.

Hello to all..

After going through a few replies, it was quite evident that this is a software issue. Turning off siri on the iPhone & the Apple Watch was of no use & still kept draining the battery. Particularly involving iCloud & the mail app.

Temporary resolution: I have signed out of iCloud account & mail app yesterday. After re starting my phone, immediately there is a noticeable increase in battery backup. Currently have not signed back into iCloud or mail app. This is working for me as of now. Also, I have re enabled siri and battery is still good. Siri is taking up about 1 to 2% of battery life, which is a drastic reduction from 60 - 80%

Will keep you guys updated by signing in to the mail & iCloud one by one & keeping a watch on battery life.

I have somewhat improved battery life. I found an article on reddit, I think, about security tokens for iCloud that get defunct. I think what I did was basically log out of iCloud on all (!) devices, delete some strings (don’t remember if via iTunes, directly on the iPhone or elsewhere) and then one after the other reconnected to iCloud again on my devices.

Battery is not back to normal, or prior to the bug, but it lasts a day and if I turn on flight mode it will also last the night with only 20% left in the evening.

The percentage that it shows next to Siri, it’s not the percentage of battery life that is lost, it’s the percentage of how much of the battery has been lost, so if it says Siri is draining 50% of your battery, it actually means for those 24 hours 50% of your battery loss was due to Siri, if you were to login to iCloud and use your phone normally, you would probably notice that the drain is not significant but that Siri percentage drainage would be high

I have now confirmed that its iClouds which is causing Siri to drain battery. As per my previous post, I had removed all my email accounts from the stock email app & signed out of iClouds to get back battery life. This really helped as I saw immediate results within a couple of hours.

Two days pass & I decided to log into all my email accounts on the stock email app. Battery life still good.

Today I logged back into my iClouds, and behold. Within 15-20 minutes I could feel the phone heat up & battery drain. I presumed this to be the sync and left it for a couple of hours. After sync completion, the same siri taking up battery began to pop under the battery settings. I turned off Siri from within the iCloud App. This temporarily relieved battery life for about 5-6 hours. Again, during regular course of use, Siri has popped up & taken up close to 35% of battery life, which is still significantly high.

So eventually, even I have determined that there is something going haywire with iClouds & Siri when signed in.

When signed out, with Siri & hey siri turned on, siri shows up under 1% in the battery section, which is close to nothing.

Today im going to turn off iClouds again & check for the confirmation of the issue being with iClouds.

If it says it took up 35%, it doesn’t mean it took 35% of your battery, it just means of the percentage lost 30% of that percentage was due to Siri, meaning that if it says 100% Siri drain every day, it could just mean that you’re not doing much with your phone and that that one percent that it dropped from the two hours was caused by 100% of Siri

Yes, but these are not figures for a day but for a few hours. After which the phone‘s battery is empty. Often to the point that the device is off. So it matters Siri or some other app is draining your battery without you even using it. This is what makes it a bug. Before 13.4 neither Siri nor any other app did that.

To be blunt if the phones were only losing 1 or 2 percent over a considerable period, we would not all be complaining. Siri is often taking 60 to 70% of near 100% of battery capacity over 24 hours or less.

I’m finding this issue, not with Siri but with music app. Battery usage shows music is on in background for 17 hours or more, even if I haven’t used it at all. I turned off automatic downloads, but that didn’t make any difference at all. Phone is very hot as well - and battery doesn’t last the day, even if I haven’t used it at all. Music is dramatically gobbling my battery. Just noticed it in the last week or so.

I have the same problems as most of you here as per my previous posts here. I followed the advise of MohamedAmir and others, I went to Settings, clicked on my name, then on iCloud and turned Contacts off. That's all i did so far. I now have the full use of the battery. Previously, while 100% before going to bed, and waking to a dead phone or only a few percent left, and now, from 100% to 98% in the morning, and lasts me a full day with average use. Siri usage is now down to 1 - 7%.

Unfortunately for me, turning off iCloud for contacts is not ideal as I need to back up my contacts to iCloud as I use them on Outlook in my computer for work.

Furthermore, this did improve my use of the contacts app, but very slightly. It still very buggy, freezes most of the time, but at least do not wake to a dead phone if not on the charger all night. What is ironic, is that apple support was very quick to blame the battery and insisted that it was not a software, but an hardware issue, and I needed to buy a new battery.

There is still something that I need to do to ensure the contacts app starts working properly again, and it clearly proves that a bug got introduced to my phone through iCloud and needs to be fixed.

Will try a few more options and let you know if any improvements.

I regret the apple help/technical people are not at the level of technical competence they used to be, when the English speaking European help centre was based in Ireland. They usually seem to suggest the answer which is easiest for them, rather than looking for the correct solution. "Tick - another customer fobbed off - how soon is lunch?" This is a bit like the early days of company IT help desks: "have you tried turning it off and on again?" - grrrrrrrr!

I have an IPad min 2 . After I've turned off Siri completely, my battery life was death. Since today, my battery life is bad again and according to the battery my iPad was shut down and not charging only marking apple log on screen