Siri is draining my battery

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 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.

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.

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.

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“ ...

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.

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.