Siri is draining my battery

We have had iOS software update after software update with no cure for this iPhone issue, unless you sign out of Siri both generally and separately on each individual app. It is the scissors keyboard problem (I am on Keyboard #4 on my 2016 Macbook Pro and it is beginning to give problems) all over again.

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I have been having the same problem. I don’t even use Siri, and it is at the top of the list for battery draining apps, followed by mail and contacts. Concurrently, my very reliable 2012 MacBook Pro started overheating and the fan was whirring at top speed for 2 days straight, and the processing slowed down to a crawl. iMessages was barely working and it was impacting my iPhone and iPad. The activity monitor showed a process called sharingd in my MAC was eating most of the cpu processing. I had to go out and buy a new MacBook so I could continue to work. Now I’m wondering if this is related to the Siri/battery issue with the iPhone and iPad, and is somehow connected iCloud related. I was on the phone to Apple support twice and they couldn’t diagnose the problem. My love of all things Apple is fading fast, especially after footing a hefty bill for a new MacBook.

If you are logged into your MacBook using your Apple ID, it certainly sounds like it would be the same issue. When I wiped my iPhone X clean and restored it without data and apps, it solved the issue. My iPhone X was doing the same as you listed above. It was getting very hot, battery draining very quickly, Siri, mail and contacts were draining the battery even though I wasn’t using them. It’s still happening on my iPhone SE, but I haven’t wiped it yet. Trying to make sure I have everything restored on my iPhone X before I clear and restore my iPhone SE. Another glitch was the contacts were getting stuck. I would open contacts but then the phone would not respond

if you are able to log out and wipe your device and restore without data and apps, I would recommend that. I didn’t lose my data and it did bring back over my Contacts, Photos, Messages, male, voice memos, and everything that I had backed up to the cloud.

just be sure you have everything turned on in your iCloud settings for back up and you have a very recent back up. I was worried about restoring without data but I did get my data back.

I have to go in and re-download each app and log back in. I didn’t have my keychain turned on so I lost all my passwords. I’m making sure I have all of those in my iCloud keychain and backed up before I white the SE

I hope this helps! Good luck!

As of some time last week, this suddenly stopped happening on my iPhone and iPad. All of a sudden Siri is back down to 1% battery usage rather than 60%.

I wish I could say I did something but I didn't. Maybe they finally fixed it?

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!

Here is a screenshot

Same on my phone, besides that Siri is completely turned off.

Reseting doesn’t solve the problem.

you can clearly see that signing out helps.

Same. After upgrading to 13.7 the issue completely disappeared.

Happy for the solution but not about the lack of transparency/response from Apple.

Why do you think that Siri is draining the battery?

Have you looked in Settings Battery?

What is the battery health reported there?

I've heard that 13.4 is fixing this issue. Installed today, lets see if it's getting better.

Are you sure, that you haven't installed 13.4? iOS 14 is still not officially released.

That is correct -- it is 13.4 --- thanks for catching that.

I have now for 3 days 13.4 on my phone. So far it's definitely better, but time will show if it's fixed or not. Lets wait a few weeks.

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.