iOS 15 Home app and HomeKit have excessive battery drain

Nice to know, maybe the end of this endless "journey". Apple Support has reached me today in order to tell me to update. Asked for more technical details, but level 2 support was only able to say the engineers have tried to fix the issue in that release. Still in contact with the support in case of issue's persistence.

Ditto. iPad Pro still draining when idle faster than I'd like, but that's probably its age and it's a fraction of the rate it was before.

Wish Apple would acknowledge these issues and fixes, at least for those who don't follow them here!

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

Unfortunately for me no changes after iOS 15.4.

I still see massive Home app battery drain, however this has nothing to do with thread as I do not have any thread devices plus no openthread.arpa requests

It's getting worse for me. Home App uses 40% of battery on my iPhone. Basically my battery dies over night just from the Home battery drain. I also got Home pods and Apple TV. Is there still no solution?

Since you also got Pihole active, I wonder if it's because of blocking of certain requests, that worsens the issue (I also got a DNS tracker blocking at router level)

My iPhone (even on 15.5) is the only device being affected in the past. My other devices (esp. iPad) are of course also connected to Home, but have no background activity draining the battery. I've to say that I added lots of smart home devices over the past month - including a lock, some Eve products using Thread, Hue etc..

Maybe they are all trying to communicate with my iPhone via Home and their native apps. It's probably the handoff, API etc between e.g. the Eve, Hue etc apps and the Home app. Still monitoring the issue...

Currently on my iPhone 13 pro it is no more home app that drains the battery, it’s the mobile app of idealo.de. After deinstalling this app, the drain moves to another app. After deinstalling that app, the drain moves again to another app. And so on…

it is really annoying.

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

Yeah, the thing is that I'm also working from home and on some days the Home app has 90% battery use, even in battery saving mode (!!) all the time! It's getting worse (even on 15.5) - so Apple is clearly not addressing the issue, which is concerning.

Hello everyone,

on Apple side, the support told me the engineers are investigating and they cannot provide any timing about resolution. iOS 15.6 didn't resolve the battery drain.

After spending months contacting them, they finally decided to give an answer different from asking to collect logs over logs.

Just unbelievable how long it is taking to resolve that battery drain.

Did someone find a solution or a workaround?

Eve app is not installed on my iPhone 14 Plus where the Google Home app shows excessive battery usage. Nor have I ever installed the Eve app. I've removed the Google Home app from my phone, and installed it on my iPad instead. No problems there yet, but I've been careful to exit the Home app from the main menu, all streaming should be off. Also getting a Google Home Hub, in hopes that using that while at home will also help.

I'm still planning to re-install the Google Home app on my phone when I'm traveling. After all, that's at least part of the reason why we have "security" cameras in the first place :-).

I find that my iPad battery is a much stronger battery. The Google Home app is usually last on the list of apps in "Battery" settings. With a "-" for amount of battery consumption, which I assume means less than 1%. Also, I'm sure to exit ALWAYS the app from the main menu, never with any video streaming. On my iPhone, Google Home app is usually around 7% of battery, so it's been exiled off my phone until we go on trips. The iPad also provides a Nest doorbell chime with the notification sound without making the app battery usage more than "-".

This has worked for some time now with no problems. Stupid that I have to do that, but seems that Google and Apple have a problem working together. Who knew *smile*?

Same issue.

Same here. Happening on all devices, home owner and family members, iPads, iPad Pros, iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro.

As others mentioned all devices are up to date.

Same issue here