Home Accessories drainig battery, app Home is NOT installed.

I had the same issue on my IPad. Though I didn’t have the Home app installed anymore, I found “Home” listed in my settings. When I clicked on it, it had some of the home devices that I had linked with Apple Home once upon a time. After I removed all the linked devices from Home, Home dropped out of settings and that resolved the battery draining issue too.

Thank you for your suggestion. After an online search, I found a thread that FIXED my problem. I downloaded the HomeKit app again, then using the 3 dots in the upper right corner, opened on my name and account (that I never signed up for and had NO home appliances paired), scrolled to the bottom and clicked on “delete home”. Then closed the app and deleted it again, by the next day the Home Accessories battery usage had completely dropped from my screen. This is an issue I have wrestled with for months with no success, and finally seem to have resolved it!

I had the same issue. Then I took the following steps and Home Accessories no longer consumes my battery. You may not need to do all of them. Step #1 is non-intrusive. #2 only impacts specific device apps. If you use Apple Home, #3 and #4 wipes off your existing settings and you may want to do them only as last resort.

1) Restart iPhone

2) Open Settings, check if you have any device apps and turn off Home Data:

3) Open the apple Home app (if not existing, install it from the app store). On its main page, tap "..." at the upper right corner, then remove "My Home"

4) Download the following profile from Apple. Then go to Settings/General/VPN & Device Management, install it. Then go to Settings/Home, tap "Reset Homekit"

http://appldnld.apple.com/iOSProfiles/HomeKitReset.mobileconfig

OK so after one week of struggling with the same issue on my iPhone XR (iOS 16.6), I managed to resolve it.

Here is what i did, inspired by other comments found in this thread :

1) Restart iPhone

2) Reinstall "Home Kit" and "Apple TV" apps (those two were not installed on my iphone)

3) Turn off iCloud temporarily (Settings >> iCloud >> Log Out)

(this is a very important step ! Since my HomeKit app was stuck on the fisrt screen "finding / loading scene" or something like that...sorry I don't remember exactly)

4) In the Apple TV settings, under "Allow TV to Access", turn off "Allow Live Activities" and "More Frequent Updates" and close the app.

5) Open the Home Kit app. On its main page, tap "..." at the upper right corner => "Home settings" => slide to the bottom of the page and tap on the "Delete home" button. Close the app.

6) Turn iCloud back on

Hope it can help !

Try apple "HomeKit Reset Profile" - search online. Might help. It will reset all home profiles.

example: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/yy2oy7/apple_has_a_downloadable_profile_to_really_clear/

same with me.

Try apple "HomeKit Reset Profile" - search online. Might help. It will reset all home profiles.

example: https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeKit/comments/yy2oy7/apple_has_a_downloadable_profile_to_really_clear/

Hi, I had this same issue (Home Accessories not installed yet draining battery). I followed this support thread for weeks and tried EVERY suggestion, some worked for a few days but then the issue would return. There’s even an earlier comment where I thought I had fixed this problem only to find it returned again several days later after my “posted solution”. I also tried the link to the Reddit community without success there either. I finally wiped my phone and returned it to factory settings (scary) and then set it up again (surprisingly easy after backing up to iCloud and only took a few minutes.) I am a senior citizen and NOT particularly tech savvy but this fixed the issue for me once and for all. It’s been over 4 months and Home Accessories has never reappeared. Good luck…

Hey; after almost 9 Months and countless E-mails and Phone calls with Apple support, the Problem is fixed, but I had too connected everything again. Before you delete your old home set a 2nd home, transfer everything to the new Home and then delete the old home, after doing this, the Background activity should stop in a few hours. I have to say after nine months I forgot how long the battery last and how cold the phone could be, so I hope it works for you guys too.

Same problem here. I tried three things, and I'm not sure yet which, but one of them fixed it.

1) I upgraded to OS16.3.1.

2) I turned off iCloud temporarily.

3) I think this is the real fix: in the Apple TV settings, under "Allow TV to Access", I turned off "Allow Live Activities" and "More Frequent Updates"

I just did all that about 24 hours ago, and my Home Accessories usage has disappeared entirely.

I'm going to experiment with turning iCloud and the Apple TV stuff back on, to see if one of them still causes the issue (again, betting on the Apple TV setting here), but in the meantime I figured I would post this up for folks having the same problem.

Good luck!

Hello there Iets,

Welcome to Apple Support Communities. We suggest turning off the Background App Refresh to help with this issue. Go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh, and switch that to Off. Get more info on using Background App Refresh here:

Switch apps on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

Let us know if this helps you.

Cheers!

I just found this as well as I have a 4 month old iPhone 14 and the battery suddenly started loosing power super quick. Even over night on low power, 40% and DND it would die. Never happened normally. I’ve just added the home app again gone into settings on the app deleted and removed from iPhone and it’s now removed itself from my battery area however I now have it saying Siri has been taking up 48% when I don’t even use Siri either?!

is this a fault with the newest update?

I have an iPhone SE and I do use the home app. After the last update to 17.5.1 my battery started draining super fast due to the Home app.

I turned off background refresh on the phone but that did not help. I also went to the Apple TV app and turned off “live activities”. This action helped a little. But the battery was still draining.

i have an I watch and there the Home app also refreshes. I went to the iwatch app, then general, then app refresh and turned off the Home app. This helped a lot. My drain went from almost 50% due to the Home app to now about 13%.

This is an issue Apple needs to fix. I spoke to a friend with an iPhone and she has a newer model and is not having the problem. It seems to affect some iPhones but not all.

Sajeth - Read above comments - uninstall Apple TV or turn off "Allow Live activities".

Hi, this has been happening to my iPhone 14 pro too. I’ve done online research, tried disabling everything I could think off (app is not even installed on my phone), I’ve deleted/reinstalled deleted app again and now solution to problem.

I did manage to find a setting (sorry I can’t remember what) and after disabling this app wasn’t draining battery, it was still using background activity but this was about less than 10% but it gradually started to creep up to what is is today, nearly 70%

I’ve been in touch with Apple support and they don’t know what the problem is, just been told to switch off different setting that I already had done and was given a link to how to preserve battery.

I have an iPhone 14 pro and I just noticed home accessories was draining a ton of my battery. I looked if anyone else was having this problem and I found this thread. I’ve done everything everyone has mentioned as well and I cannot get it to go away? Help Apple?