iOS 15 Home app and HomeKit have excessive battery drain

I have an iPhone 13 that I bought yesterday.

Disabled all Home notifications, geolocation and face recognition.

The phone ran out of battery overnight. I'm paying for an Apple One subscription. Everything is terrible!

So, lost almost 50% battery last night as Home shows about 22 minutes of background usage every hour.

Decided to double check that it was not set as a Home hub and...this is interesting. I flipped on the switch to see what it would do and there's a message that I "currently do not have any homes". Not true of course, and in fact I can use the Home app from the iPad just fine.

Anyone else having this battery issue see this?

I have the same issues on an iPad 9.7, an iPhone 13 and an iPhone SE (current version)

I own an homeport mini, Apple TV and only other connected bridge is velux active.

Today, there was a drop in battery of 82% within 2,5 hours on the iPhone 13. It was pretty warm, so there is sth strange happening.

it was in flight mode until 6:20, then the drain of battery started. While working out of my home, there is no issue. is related to wifi. Are all the others on UI (Unifi) products? Maybe there is a relation....?

I can confirm the [HomePodName].openthread.thread.home.arpa connections, there are a lot of...

Ipad not the home hub, this is my appleTV. disabled location things.

Updated all my devices (iPhone XS, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPad Pro, Apple TV 4K - 3 of them) to 15.4 and issue is still persistent .

monster battery drain by home app.

I do not have thread devices on my network

I have been away from home for some days and home app impact is decreased a lot because I am using 4G.

For this reason the problem is clearly related to the fact that when we are at home, using Wi-Fi —> *something happens *

any ideas? I already disabled face recognition

Have an update: (I don’t even have the app downloaded or ever used it) try turning off the optimize battery charging. I had this off for a while & turned it on very recently & in a very short period of time battery drain & noticed this:

on iOS 16.0.2

Hi,

I have the same issue on my iPad Air 4. Sometimes I have backgournd activity from Home app and sometimes not....

I have a Hue bridge, an Aqara Hub and a Homekit Secure Video camera. I don't receive any notifications on my iPad so I don't know why I have this usage. Leave my iPad alone !

I loose between 5 and 10% per day without doing anything while my wife's iPad which is not admin but resident of the Home loose only 2 or 3% per day.

What causes this ?

Suggestion for Apple: it would be good to have a on option to turn off automatically the Wifi after no use of iPad and enables it when open the iPad....

I have the same issue and since I haven't changed the level of notifications since updating to ios 15 then 15.1 my Homekit now uses 39 to 44% battery usage indicating Accessories. Several of them required updates and are off line, so either it is an issue with notifications in general or how 3rd party apps tell Homekit their accessory needs an update is a possibility.

I'm having the same issue. Destroying my battery overnight when unable to charge. 20-40% usage, all in background labeled Home:Accessories

Never had this issue before. iPhone 13 Pro on latest iOS15 update (15.1.1)

Same problem here, Iphone Xr, less than a year old, I first I had massive battery drain on the Home app, so I completly removed the app, but the porblem stays, and now I have massive drain on Home Accessories, and showing as an unknown app icon.

Also can just add here that I have the same issue and this is so frustrating! Happening to me on an iPhone 12 Pro Max and an iPad Pro (2018). Existing since iOS15 and still existing with 15.2 Will this ever be fixed?!

I am also seeing this same issue - iPad Pro 9.7 inch and iPhone Xr - both on iOS 15.2. Highest Battery Usage item is Home - Accessories - 67% over the past 10 days!!! I have turned off Home in iCloud. Turned off Notifications for Home. Turned off Location Services for HomeKit. Little improvement.

Given the number of posts about this (here and on Reddit) - this is a very real issue that needs to be addressed by Apple.

I have a ticket with Apple open on this for months now. They sampled all kind of log files for their developers, but no fix was given so far.

Problem is only while on the home Wi-Fi and happens on all my devices. Traveling or being on my own guest Wi-Fi has no problem.

Hi Good day

Same issue here, battery drained from 80% to 14% overnight. I never even opened the home app but it has the biggest battery usage in background.

Is there a fix to this issue already?

Thanks