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That’s fine, Chancemyman.

As a scientist, myself, I do not make assumptions about other people’s evidence.

(When I do make assumptions, within my own work, I always make such assumptions explicit!)

However, as I wrote, above:

«Now. Even if what you expressed for what the battery indicators were «at» were reversed, or expressing how drained the batteries were, this test does not test only «the spinning wheel», but also the battery drain of «Siri» «dictation» and the Cellular communication involved.

If, however, you had only performed a single «Siri» «dictation» (with its accompanying Cellular communication), then we would have something closer to a reasonable test of «the spinning wheel» issue itself.

Even then, we would need to know the battery state immediately after the «dictation» was complete.

Even better, would be the battery graphs for both phones involved in the test, so we can see indications of other activities, as per LD150‘s recommendation, yesterday.»

"...These other two guys just seem to enjoy “poking the bear”...."

No I already acknowledged Chancemyman's input as definitive and proof of your problem. Clarification was needed to check why it appeared to be contradictory and that has been cleared up.

More battery graph data such as Halliday and I have asked for will be even more useful before it disappears off the phone.

I went to the genius bar at the Trafford Centre Apple Store today with my spinning wheel and battery issue.

Dropped the phone off, 10 minutes later they rang me saying they’ll replace the phone as a problem with the Bluetooth component in the phone.

so far so good will keep you posted if the spinning wheel arrives again.

I have the same problem. Nobody can figure it out! I've spent countless hours at US Cellular with failed attempts, visits to a certified Apple Store, Apple even sent me a different phone and it did it immediately. It has been draining my data every month so far to the point I go over data. I switched from Android to Apple with this phone after my Google Pixel was lost/stolen and I swear it has something to do with this switch. I'm getting frustrated! 2 Months with no answers and a phone that is slow and draining data and battery life that lasts 1/2 a day is really starting to make me want to smash the phone. Any new info would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, @All, but all we are seeing, here, now, are complaints and commiseration.

(We all understand the desire to complain and commiserate, but such accomplishes nothing constructive toward getting anything fixed, especially if said fix must come from Apple: Apple is not here. Apple does not glean feedback from these fora. We, all, are but fellow users, like yourselves.)

Contacting Apple Technical Support, and/or providing Apple with good, constructive Feedback, is the best anyone can do, at this point.

Once having done so, nothing is accomplished by continuing here.

Not doing so will accomplish nothing positive toward any fix from Apple.

LD150 wrote:

Well said.

I am still waiting to see the two battery graphs promised earlier by one of the users on here.

So near to getting hard evidence...

I, too, would like to see such «hard evidence».

Went Back to Verizon and have convinced them to allow me to switch to a much more reliable and far easier to use Samsung galaxy, out from under the SE 2020 and all it’s problems and user unintuitiveness thank god.

Someone please offer scientific proof of battery drain

Tomorrow morning turn off Dictation and Siri

Let the phone run as normal for 24 hours

Next morning screenprint the 24 hr battery graph in Settings Battery

Immediately afterwards re-enable Siri and Dictation

Let the phone run as normal another 24 hours

Screenprint the Battery chart again

Paste the 2 pieces graphic evidence of "Battery drain" here

Until then we have only anecdotal evidence plus one half-hearted non graphical experiment that was the wrong way round.

LD150:

This is far from the only discussion in which unsubstantiated claims are made, and, once a good test of said claims is put forward, none of the claimants take up the challenge.

However, I did see one case (in another Discussion on this seemingly perpetual Network Activity Indicator) where a user, exhibiting the issue, tested for Data usage, as the «spinning wheel» continued to spin, after the Voice Dictation was complete: the result showed no substantive Data usage.

Since this issue seems to be so readily reproducible (at least on some models), Apple should have been able to perform definitive tests on Data and Power/Battery usage.

No permanent solution found. The most permanent option I found that worked was using a VPN like NordVPN. The VPN reduced my data speeds to 70% normal download and 93% normal upload. The spinning wheel is gone.

Other temporary solution:

Settings>General>Keyboards>Enable Dictation to OFF. Kill all apps running. Reboot. Re-enable Dictation. The problem is I use Siri and talk to text very often. That’s when the wheel returns. I’ve seen this issue as far back as 2016. I’ve reported to Apple many different times. I’m using iPhone SE (2nd gen). My iPhone 11 Pro I had before this did it sometimes. I think the bug is related to certain processes terminating thus needing to reboot the springboard, reloading all processes. It’s truly annoying. If anyone finds a better permanent solution, please post it here.

NordVPN will usually kill internet traffic so it’s no surprise.

Does dictation still work with this “security” app installed?

Personally I like to keep my internet data between me and the ISP, not going through some unregulated servers, but it’s a choice.

Welcome, fiona166, to Apple Support Communities!

I’ve tried to get the spinning wheel using dictation in Messages, and in Safari, on my iPad Pro (12.9-inch) (2nd generation) running iPadOS 14.4.2; but, everything worked just fine, without even having the network indicator («the spinning wheel») during dictation. (Admittedly, I do have reasonably fast Internet.)

So. The issue you are having depends upon something more.

Same. Apple has even sent me a new phone. I have not restored it from a back up either, in case the backed up version of my phone was a problem. Apple is told me they are not aware of this. It’s hard to believe seeing all of these complaints. What else can we do?

Welcome, JillianD82, to Apple Support Communities!

Unless people provide Feedback directly to Apple, such as through their Feedback pages, Apple will not be made truly aware of this issue: posting here provides Apple little, if any, Feedback; since Apple does not frequent these fora; we are but fellow users.