I am happy to report that my standby battery life is much improved with iOS 13.4 beta 6 aka the GM.
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iPhone Substantial battery drain when using Siri
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Ok. I did all the above from my previous posts. Nothing happened. Then I deleted some unused apps. Still nothing. Turned off Siri. Still nothing. Then mail app was crushing my battery with background activity. Deleted the account. Was an work account. Now this happens. I should note that i did not delete no apps in the past 48 not 24 hours. Now i will factory reset this again and hope for the best. If you have any sugestii s pleas go for it. I am lost.
Did you use torch or it appeared by itself? In my case it appeared even when I did not switch it on. I only had flashing enabled in Accessibility settings.
I was having idle time battery drain on my 10.5 Pro - 13.3.1 - and disabled Siri and it didn't make a difference. Then I went in and disabled Learn from App for all apps and the drain has stopped. Cause & effect? Don't know for sure but the drain went away.
I a tried that, but the battery is still draining and Siri shows 100% usage. I don't know what's happening there but it's start to get annoing.
Before i disabled Learn from App but after I disabled Siri, I still had idle time battery drain but neither Siri or any other app showed up under battery usage. The irritating thing was not a having global control for Learn from App and having to do it individually for each one.
I did that as well and checked all my apps twice. It's worse in the current beta as it was before, I'm crossing my fingers that maybe with the next beta cylcle anything will be done about that. My tickets including videos are lovely ignored in the Beta Feedback, although I agree that hopefully at one day some media outlets will jump on this issue like they did with the "Location Services"-Setting.
13.4 official releases today - hopefully that helps. Mine is quite better now with the changes I noted.
Same here. After turn off Siri I charged my iPhone yesterday evening. Today @5:30AM I've 97% with 100% Siri draining my battery. The funny thing is, with no Siri draining my battery is at 100% at the morning!! So for me, Siri has a significant impact for my battery (time) and until now, I don't know how to deactivate.
I’ve had this issue on multiple devices (iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone XR, 2018 11” iPad Pro) on 13.3.1 and 13.4, and it came back a few days after resetting through Finder and setting up as new. All the devices are on different iCloud accounts. On the 6S Plus and 7, the CPU usage would constantly be at 100%. For the newer devices, it was bouncing between 50% and 75%. What ended up working for me was signing out of iCloud, signing back in, and then disabling and deleting Siri from Settings - My Name - iCloud - Manage Storage - Disable and Delete. It’s been about a week, and I haven’t seen the issue again.
Since I'm on 13.4, my battery life is great. But I have to say, that I've disabled Siri.
Has anybody enabled Siri and his still a good battery life?
Has anybody enabled Siri and his still a good battery life?
No, even in the new beta, it's the same issue. I turned Siri off and turn it on if i need to use Carplay. iOS is really messed up, my iPhone 8+ works perfectly with iOS 12.
Problem can exist even when Siri is disabled.
SOLUTION!!!
You need to be on iOS 13.4 first... earlier versions had a bug.
The issue is a corrupted Siri preference file not syncing correctly via iCloud to the Siri backend, leading to relentless polling.
The fix is simple.
1. Start with the iPhone.
2. Log out of iCloud on one device, log back into it, Merge when it asks you, then wait for stuff to repopulate (a couple of hours).
(Do this one Apple iOS/tvOS/iPadOS device at a time, give the device time to repopulate.)
3. Then do your other devices one by one, slowly (as all your iOS/tvOS/iPadOS devices may have the issue).
No need to do MacOS devices from what we’ve seen here.
The battery drain should stop. Also, after you plug in and charge once, the battery usage should display correctly and Siri won't appear at that ridiculously high level anymore.
UNLIKELY SECOND STEP:
If this *doesn't* fix things, go to General > Reset > Reset All Settings.
This will flush all pref files... you'll have to set things like Apple Pay cards back up again.
Then do the above iCloud logout/login... (Had to do this on an older (not supported anymore) iPhone 6 I keep about for testing.) So... unlikely that it will be required in never devices.
I really appreciate your solution @MotorSt, thanks for sharing. On my iPhone 11 Pro with the latest Beta, you tipp is not working for me. Even if I disable iCloud completely, log out and have them phone disconnected to iCloud, it's still consumpting battery life as hell. It stops when i turn of Siri but than i can't use Carplay.
In a similar thread (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/siri-drains-27-percent.2226136/) I had the same problem
After a reset in settings and just closing down ALL options for Contacts in Siri, the problem solved...at least for me, immediately!
You can make a try!
After a reset in settings and just closing down ALL options for Contacts in Siri, the problem solved...at least for me, immediately!
You can make a try!
Yes, I believe so. The battery drain appears to be the result of a stuck Siri related process, so once you do this, it should resolve the problem. At least temporarily.
I am still seeing this issue; I have tried the following options
1. Reset all the settings
2. Turn-off Hey Siri
3. Turn-off "Siri to learn from this app"; What a pain, had to go thru every app.
But, still the battery usage seems to be very high for Siri. One thing to note - The battery seems to be perfectly fine during the day with siri's usage not impacting the battery; Its the night when the phone goes to DND, it consumes the most battery. Don't know if its the same usage pattern for others.
Using iPhone X Model.
Any further help or pointers to me that can help the siri eating my battery problem ?
thanks,
1. Reset all the settings
2. Turn-off Hey Siri
3. Turn-off "Siri to learn from this app"; What a pain, had to go thru every app.
But, still the battery usage seems to be very high for Siri. One thing to note - The battery seems to be perfectly fine during the day with siri's usage not impacting the battery; Its the night when the phone goes to DND, it consumes the most battery. Don't know if its the same usage pattern for others.
Using iPhone X Model.
Any further help or pointers to me that can help the siri eating my battery problem ?
thanks,