Battery drain on iPad connected to home wifi / HomeKit issue

I know this is a very old post but I'm experiencing this exact same issue on iOS 13.5 with only one device. Did you ever find the cause? On any other wifi or cellular, no drain. But on my home wifi it's taking on average 60% of my battery. I'm very willing to try any idea you have because my nuclear option is deleting my home and starting over. I even wiped my phone and restored but no luck. Readding 60+ devices isn't how I'd like to spend my weekend, but if that's how I get my battery life back it's what I'll do.

So, I think I am having the same issue. When on cellular no drain, when on any other wifi no drain, but when I am home on my wifi I am getting mad drain. 20-25% in 8 hours overnight with phone doing nothing. I have restored with no backup same thing, restore without signing into my icloud no drain over wifi.
I will be doing more testing over the next few weeks.

I have the same problem. iPad Pro 12.9 2020 and iPhone 6S battery drain on Home wifi.
I had the same problem on iPhone SE 2020 (guest of the home). After leaving the home (HomeKit disabled) it works great an the battery holds about 3 days with normal use.

I see others starting to have this issue now too. Could you guys post what your home network looks like in terms of h/w and setup?

My setup:
Google Wifi for routers
Guest network does not have this problem with drain from homekit
Using a jailbreak the drain is from the homed daemon (I wish this stuff was viewable without a jailbreak)
Drain occurs on iOS 14.2, 14.1, and 13.5
I deleted the home completely (I was the owner) and made a new iCloud account. I setup all my home devices under the new iCloud account and the phone (running 14.2) has 0 drain. However my iCloud account still has the drain, even though I'm just a guest of the other icloud account now. Meaning the problem is in my main icloud account somehow.

Device setup:

• 0 automations set to use my location

• Wemo lights

• Hue lights with Hue bridge

• Lifx lights

• Eufy cameras - note these are not added in Homekit, but they show up if I go to add-devices within the Home app.

• Homebridge (tested drain with this disconnected, since it's not officially supported but still have drain)

• Through Homebridge I have Tuya garage door, aura strip light, and Plex API calls to set scenes when I hit play/pause on TV

In fact, with all of my homekit devices powered off, including Homebridge, the drain is still there. Same goes for removing all devices from Homekit.

• Schlage door lock

• AppleTV 4K as my home bridge, wired LAN to it, and it's running the latest tvOS 14.2

Only ways I've solved the drain:

1. Connect to guest wifi instead of main wifi

2. Connect to cellular (again removing me from main wifi)

3. Connect to anyone else's wifi

4. Sign out of iCloud - turning off Home in iCloud does not stop the homed daemon from running constantly (once every 5-10 seconds for anywhere from 2% to 60% cpu

5. Disable my affected iCloud account from having Edit access to the home (on the new iCloud account there is no drain and it has full edit access since it's the owner, again making me believe my main icloud account has something corrupt or stuck in it.)

6. Using a jailbreak, and DaemonDisabler from c.y.d.i.a. - disable and unload homed from the system processes (breaking homekit use in the process)

Question to anyone reading this:

• Do you see any un-added devices waiting to be added when you select Add in the Home app? I have a suspicion the drain may have something to do with un-added devices constantly talking on mDNS but it's just a thought. Weird, however, that even when I'm not the owner it's still draining just my affected icloud account. The problem doesn't move to a different icloud account when I've moved ownership of the home and all devices to that.

I can confirm having the same issues on both iPad and iPhone 12 running latest iOS14. With COVID I hadn’t been outside a lot and only noticed that my devices drained battery quite a lot with just sitting there. I often ran out of battery in the evening without heavy usage. However when traveling all the sudden I still had 60%+ at the end of a day actually using the phone.

Other family members do not have the problem on the same network connected to the same family shared home.

Home consists of 2 Apple TV’s, homepods and probably 20 HomeKit devices. All works well.

it is very concerning that this thread is this old and the problem has not been resolved yet.

Hi, I have exactly the same issue on my iPad Air 4 under iOS 15 and I have tried everything since 2019 (on my iPad Air 2). I have also created a completely new iCloud account and there was no change. I loose 10% a day while doing nothing instead of 3/4% while iCloud disconnected. My wife's iPad does not have the issue and she has a Home access.

I am experiencing this exact same issue as well ! I am running on iOS 15. The issue is on my iPad Mini. The battery drain is is taking at least 70% battery each day. I cannot even remove the "HOME" from my HomeKit... when I click on "Remove Home", it doesn't really do anything.

Please Apple, can you look into this? My iPad is effectively unusable now...

I am experiencing this exact same issue as well ! I am running on iOS 15. The issue is on my iPad Mini. The battery drain is is taking at least 70% battery each day. I cannot even remove the "HOME" from my HomeKit... when I click on "Remove Home", it doesn't really do anything. Please Apple, can you look into this? My iPad is effectively unusable now... — EmptyHugo less than a minute ago

Have you tried to disconnect the Hue Bridge for a moment (at least 12 hours) ? And check if there is a difference of battery drain ?

I've been having this exact same issue since updating to iOS 15 on all my devices, I have yet to find a solution in my case.

Try going to Settings > Home and turn off "Use this iPad as a Home Hub".

Just to give an update to all, I tried all previous suggestions and nothing worked.

I managed to fix it by wiping out my iPad to factory settings and NOT RESTORING FROM CLOUD.

So essentially it was if I had a new iPad.… only then did the battery drain get fixed and I am happy to report my iPad now lasts as it should

Same problem here iPhone 12Max problem started with install of IOS15 final release. 15.01 same issue. Home is a Shared home w 130+ devices connected to the Home. Works OK on iPad for same home and UserID

I have reset my iPad Air. I have changed my Hue bridge. No change.

I still have battery drain with Homekit. 7/8% a day. For the moment, I have made an automation which turns off Wifi every day at 23h30.... Useful when I do not use my iPad during 2 or 2 days, it prevents battery drain....

Hi community,

I believe that I’ve got the same issue in my iPad Pro A1674. I just thought there was an issue with the battery, but the home app is reporting battery usage, even after i have removed it (but named as Home Accessory” or rather “Hemtillbehör” as it’s Swedish). I have unifi wifi routers, use the apple tv4 as home hub with a Home Assistant as bridge for a Plejd dimmer, some hue and tradfri products and they all work fine.

I tried to wipe the ipad previously but with no luck there i restored it from a backup. Weirdly, when i removed my sim card it seemed to have a positive effect, but then it came back so it must have been random. Another weird thing is that my smart keyboard cover just stopped working a some time ago (it still sometimes says that the accessory isn’t supported, just happened now) and now and then the ipad gives the soft sound notification that you get when plugging in a charging cable to the ipad. Weird right?

hope to see a solution to this soon.