Siri is draining my battery

I took both my phone and iPad to the Apple store after talking to tech support several times. They fixed all of the issues I'd been having by doing a hard restore (wiping both the phone and iPad completely). We had tried this before but this time did not restore via iCloud backup or any other means. I am gradually adding back one app at a time. The said it is definitely not a battery problem (which I knew) but weren't able to say what specifically what software or app caused the problem. Tech support by phone was no help so for those of you still having the issues, I recommend an appointment at the Apple store. Both devices are like new again. I am now back to charging my phone every other day and the iPad lasts all day or longer even with hours of use. I can also use Siri again. The other tip you could try if you're lazy like me and had turned off secure sign on, is to not do that. I now use the facial recognition for the phone and touch ID or my passcode for the iPad. To summarize, after having Siri suck battery life, then mail background activity, then contacts, and syncing issues - both my iPhone X and 7th generation iPad are working like they should and it's wonderful. Good luck everyone. There is something going on but Apple doesn't seem to know exactly what it is - hopefully they'll figure it out and fix it for everyone soon. I spent hours and hours trying to fix it myself, on the phone or chat with tech support and almost an hour at the Apple Store. I was close to switching to an Android but not now. Back to being a happy user (for now).

I am having the same problem as well. I turned everything off (took about 20 minutes) in every app and made sure nothing was using siri and made sure my iPhone Xs is set with siri turned off. Still using 59% of my battery? Perhaps COVID-19 related since this just started within the last month or so? Contact tracing?

Your reply doesn't address the fact that you can go to bed with a full charge and wake up with an almost dead battery..

And it shows Siri at 50% or more of use. This is occuring on a brand new phone with current IOS.

I have been fighting this for weeks. My battery would go dead in the course of the day without unusual use. If I didn’t leave it on the charger at night it would be dead in the morning.

siri was the highest % use by app, followed by Mail and Contacts, but showed no minutes of use in activity by app. I turned off Siri in every place I could find. That did not help.

In Settings/Passwords & Accounts/ I had three accounts feeding Mail; iCloud, IGoogle and Yahoo. Selecting iCloud/iCloud from there, I turned off everything. Battery drain went back to normal.

I went back to Settings/Passwords & Accounts/iCloud/iCloud and turned on Mail and Contacts only. Battery drain spiked again.

I turned off Mail. Battery drain continued.

I turned Mail back on and Contacts off. Battery drain continued.

I turned everything but Contacts and Mail on. Battery drain was normal.

did not charge overnight, battery was still at 81% (was not 100% last nigh)

the email accounts i use are still here. You can choose to copy your iCloud accounts to the phone when you shut Contacts off in iCloud.

My battery died overnight SIRI was supposedly used at 3-5am while I was sleeping ???😡😡I’ve had nothing but problems with my battery lately. I’ve disabled so many things I hardly use my phone. Very disappointed 😡

iPhone XR. 13.4 and My battery died overnight SIRI was supposedly used at 3-5am while I was sleeping ???😡😡I’ve had nothing but problems with my battery lately. I’ve disabled so many things I hardly use my phone. Very disappointed 😡

Last night my iPhone XR. 13.4 and My battery died overnight SIRI was supposedly used at 3-5am while I was sleeping ???😡😡I’ve had nothing but problems with my battery lately. I’ve disabled so many things I hardly use my phone. Very disappointed 😡

Same issue for me. Siri uses 60-80% of my battery daily. I went in today to discuss the problem. I was told to replace the battery. I did this. It did not solve the problem. They then replaced my phone for free (thanks apple!) I did a restore from iCloud and same problem! I've been using the phone for 3 hours and its already flat. Siri used all my battery and I didnt even use it!

I was having the very same problem with terrible battery drain on my XS Max that started a few weeks ago. The battery would go from 100% to 50% in just four hours or so. Oddly enough, my apple watch S5 starting behaving the same way and would be nearly dead after about 10 hours. When I would check the phone battery in settings, it was showing Siri and Contacts being responsible for most of the usage. Siri was usually around 55-60% and contacts was usually around 35-40%. I tried everything to include turning off Siri and resets but nothing helped. Finally, I signed out of my iCloud account on my phone, watch and iPad Pro. I turned them all off for a few minutes and restarted them and logged back into my iCloud account on all of them. Now everything is working perfectly and I have great battery life back on all devices with all of the Siri and iCloud settings turned on. I am just assuming but I think there was a conflict with the iCloud settings between my devices which caused them to get caught in a never ending syncing loop which exhausted the batteries. Anyway, its fixed now, everything is working fine and a regular check of my battery shows Siri consuming the standard 1% if any at all and contacts does not show anything unless I actually open the app. Hope this helps.

Just adding onto the cases. Phone can’t hold a charge. Looked at what drained the battery last night and it was Siri. I disabled Hey Siri and it’s still draining. I just did a restore from a backup recently too.

I’m still experiencing the same battery draining constantly! I went to the Apple store and they told me to wipe the phone clear and restore from the cloud. I did this and still having the same issue. I have turned off Siri in every location possible for every app and also went and deleted my Mail account because I have it on another device to see if this would work. It still says Siri and Mail are using nearly all of my battery even when it’s not being used overnight. If anyone has any real solutions, it would be very helpful. Wondering if Apple has acknowledged this issue and given a response.

It amazes me that Apple is just ignoring this problem completely. I always thought they think of themselves as „premium“ and that’s what the whole point in going for an Apple product in favor of a Samsung or Huawai. Neither my wife’s Samsung phones nor her Huawai have ever shown any buggyness of this scale.

My 2 month old XS upgraded to 13.6.1 2 days ago and this problem appeared for the first time. Every night my phone now goes from 100% to ~5% by morning. Siri is turned off and I have done the resets recommended. No change. Siri still uses ~82% of the battery while off.

When I use my phone during the day it only lasts 3 or 4 hours. It now takes forever to charge. The battery health is 100%. This has to be a software issue since everything is new and was working fine until the update 2 days ago.

How do you determine that Apple is actually tracking this problem? There are enough threads indicating a serious issue. Thanks.

How do you contact Apple to report these issues and get official answers from Apple?

as stated above, this is definitely significant enough with multiple users having the same issue. We’ve all been through all of the resets, updates and recommendations and nothing works. I switched from an iPhone X to an SE because my 10 just would not hold battery. I bought this new phone and the problem came over to the new phone as well. So frustrating!

we deserve answers and results.

I also have issues with Contacts freezing or processing very slow. My Siri also responds very slow. I’m visually impaired and use dictation and Siri often during the day. Definitely not enough to cause this battery issue because it drains the battery even when I’m not using the phone. But my Siri will often tell me to wait or hold on a second, processing very slowly relative to other devices using Siri that doesn’t have this issue.