Siri draining battery life on iOS 10

Same problem here. Iphone 6, just under 2 years old running iOS 10.2. Zero problems ever with phone running 9. I lose about 10% per hour while on standby when this occurs which is 40X the battery drain rate of 3% over 12 hours I usually have. I've done a lot of research trying to solve this. Best I've come up with is disable Siri, turn off background refresh, close down apps after use (especially high drain apps like GPS or games), turn phone off for full reset on occasion, switch reduce motion under Settings > General to ON, and use location services only where you have to. This has reduced the amount it pops up, but still just 2 days ago it started up again. There is clearly a bug in iOS 10 and up, and 10.2 has made it worse for many.

If you tap the screen on battery app screen next to app, you can sometimes see it switch from Siri audio to just Siri when the minutes are displayed on other apps. When the power drainage drops back to normal, mine usually will drop back to saying just Siri. Also, I have run battery tests and battery is excellent cond, and proven by when it goes away for a few days and I can go 2-3 days without charging.

Customer care is beginning to admit they are looking for a code problem, but reloading iOS and most of the same ole' tips you'll hear here are useless.

All that said, yes it will still drain occasionally even with Siri turned off for me. Here is last episode.

I think I figured this out. Feel free to try to prove me wrong.

By the way, I always have "hey SIRI" off.

When I use voice dictation (using the mic button on the keyboard to speak into the phone and have my spoken words transcribed into text), it stays "on", basically keeping an audio channel open, until another application uses the phone speaker, at which point the dictation service stops "running". I think this is what my phone labelled as "SIRI" under battery drain. I figured this out because sometimes, on days when "SIRI" was using a lot of battery, when I would get in my car and connect my phone via bluetooth, it would immediately show that I was in an active call with my own phone. This will make sense to you if it ever happened to you. I figured the phone was basically still trying to "listen", and when I connected it via bluetooth, the "listening" switched from the phone to the bluetooth connection.

So, I started trying to make it stop. I discovered that using any music app would terminate that process, and my phone could then be connected to my car via bluetooth, but not actively on a call with my phone. And from that point on, things stayed normal. But if I used dictation, sure enough, the next time I connected to my car via bluetooth, it would go back to that strange connection where I was on a call with my own phone.

I repeated the experiment many times and it always produced the same result.

Conclusion: disable or stop using dictation (voice to text) to type on your phone.

And wait for Apple to get smart enough to figure these things out for themselves and fix them.

EXACT same issue. I have a 6 and have never had battery issues. But since iOS10 update, battery drops in half by 1200 and it's showing Siri voice as culprit? I don't use Siri anymore now than I did before. This is obviously an iOS10 bug. I am not planning on upgrading till this years phone comes out which is MONTHS away. I cant have my battery failing by 1200!! Did you find anything out to resolve the issue?

I'm having a huge drink from Siri - but only since installing. IOS 10.3 beta 1 (installled 2 days ago). Never had any issues with beta battery drain until this version.

Even with Siri now turned OFF, I'm still seeing 47% under the 24hr screen. Under the 7 day screen Siri is showing 7% - so it is without doubt a 10.3 beta 1 problem.

I think you have the culprit. My Siri issue started immediately after using the text recording feature. I never had the problem with dictation as I use it all the time but something kicked in when using the in text recording for me...so I think you are on the right track.

I tried all the other suggestions...yours made the most sense and guess what? It worked! I was having 58%to 70% battery usage by Siri ...I could watch it drain dropping 20% in a half hour...so I played a song in my iTunes library and listened to it with sound hound just to be sure I accessed the microphone and voila! i recharged to 100% and it's now several hours later and I'm at 97% ...ive texted, sent email and edited photos in that time. Thank you!

I've never used Siri, but since yesterday my battery has had to be recharged 3 times! I'm willing to try your solution, but please can you tell me what Sound Hound is? Will it work if I just play itunes music on the phone itself? Thanks

I have 10.2.1 and Siri is killing my battery now. I've tried everything that I've found as suggestions and nothing is working. Have there been any updates to this issue?