I am not a Homekit user and I have no Homekit hub set up yet still on iOS 16.6 (and on previous releases) I often saw the "Home" app in the top 5 list of apps using battery in the Settings/Battery display on my iPhone 14 Pro Max - all background activity since as a non-Homekit user I have never once explicitly opened/launched it on my phone.
I have been disappointed in the reduced battery life I have been seeing in various iOS 16.x releases so I went to my app library, searched for "Home" and completely deleted the Home app from my phone. Job done I thought but no. I now see this other app called "Home Accessories" appearing in my top-5 battery consumers. As far as I can see it has the same app icon as the "Home" app has. Going to the app library that, as I understand it, should allow me to see all apps installed on my phone and searching again for "home" doesn't show any "Home Accessories" app installed so there's no way that I can delete it.
Does anyone know what this hidden app is and what it does, i.e. why it might be running in the background a fair bit when I have never set up or used Homekit? I'm wondering whether it might somehow be invoked when I use my Apple AirPod Max headphones since that is the only device I ever connect to my iPhone and perhaps the Apple Home software gets involved in handling that smart switching stuff even for non-Homekit users.
Does anyone have any ideas or any similar experiences?
I have been disappointed in the reduced battery life I have been seeing in various iOS 16.x releases so I went to my app library, searched for "Home" and completely deleted the Home app from my phone. Job done I thought but no. I now see this other app called "Home Accessories" appearing in my top-5 battery consumers. As far as I can see it has the same app icon as the "Home" app has. Going to the app library that, as I understand it, should allow me to see all apps installed on my phone and searching again for "home" doesn't show any "Home Accessories" app installed so there's no way that I can delete it.
Does anyone know what this hidden app is and what it does, i.e. why it might be running in the background a fair bit when I have never set up or used Homekit? I'm wondering whether it might somehow be invoked when I use my Apple AirPod Max headphones since that is the only device I ever connect to my iPhone and perhaps the Apple Home software gets involved in handling that smart switching stuff even for non-Homekit users.
Does anyone have any ideas or any similar experiences?