iPhone Battery Drain from Apple Music

I’m having this issue as well. Interestingly, Music is not even running on my phone when it happens. But it IS draining the battery from the background while I am listening to music on my iMac. Like others have said, it also results in overheating.

I have same issue. 60%+ of my battery usage is caused by Apple Music, yet I have not been using that app. I beleive it’s only started recently and possibly related to my carrier data plan having been exhausted...

Hello she130, 

Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities! I understand that you've noticed a rapid decrease in your battery life when listening to Apple Music. This is occurring most often when you use the lyrics option while listening to music. 

Nice work thinking to check the battery usage first. Next, check to see what the iPhone is reporting for the health of the battery. Go to Settings > Battery > Battery Health You'll want to look at the Maximum Capacity and see if it is reporting Peak Performance Capability. This article will give you more details: iPhone Battery and Performance. 

If you see a message about the battery health, see if it matches any of the ones which are listed in the article. 

If there is no message, begin by quitting the Music app with these steps: How to force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. 

Once it is closed, Restart your iPhone, and see if there is any change. 

All the best!

It seems I found the fix for the problem on my iPhone.

what I did:

• I opend the Music app
• Played a song and activated the lyrics option
• Then I disabled the lyrics option and forced closed the music app.

The battery drainage stopt en in the battery view the music app isn’t listed anymore.

Me too.

iphone 7 iOS 13.3.1

phone was 98% at midnight. Killed EVERY app except music. Fell asleep listening to Mozart, so no lyrics.

woke up few hours later and battery was completely discharged.

loking at activity, nothing but music and lock screen active.

Battery at 98% health and is less then a year old.

when I opened the Apple Music app a couple days ago it gave a message about some new feature and I just click ok. Since then my battery has been decimated. See screen shots which shows Apple Music guzzling my battery in two hours. Up until a couple of days ago I was getting approx 6-8 hours out of my battery, now I’m getting about 1-3 hours if I’m lucky. What ever it is apple need to fix it! I was very close to going off spending money to get my battery replaced, but it doesn’t seem to be the issue as there are so many other people with similar experiences.

UPDATE: I killed the music app (force quit) then powered down the phone. After about a minute I powered up the phone again and it’s been working as normal since then. See attached screenshot which is a big difference from when I had the problem. Good to have the issue sorted!

I experience this weird issue as well whenever I use my Apple Music Live Lyrics function, I use iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 13.4.1 as of writing. Is there a fix for this issue. I thought I was the only one experiencing this issue.

This problem began with an Apple Music launch. There are a lot of complains about the issue on apple’s reddit, but they pretend that the problem does not exist and answer with solutions they did not even try.

The problem is the Apple Music app. Yes, only the app. It drains battery even in flight mode, LPM and all other apps killed.

Same. Iphone X newly bought. IOS 13. Batt health is 100%.

but when I use Apple Music with lyrics, my phone overheats or gets too warm. Somehow it’s okay if I run it in the background. I also tested restarting it (background app refresh is off) but when I used Apple Music with lyrics, one song can drain it to 5%.

Watching a youtube video does not even do this.

I noticed this was happening to me (iPhone 7 plus). When I turn on the lyrics option while listening to music the battery rapidly starts to drain. I thought it was my battery which was at 77% health...but I recently got a new replacement battery from Apple and I see the same issue using Lyrics. The phone can also feel very warm. I thought it was only me until I found this forum post. Are Apple really denying this is an issue??

Same problem here with an iphone 6 and ios 12.4. My battery health is 100%. Apple Music don't stop trying to download the music even if he can't, and even after a reboot. It drains my battery and overheat my iphone. What is strange is that the battery is still drained even after removing the app. I never had this problem before trying to use Apple Music.

I was reading another thread and they mentioned it might have something to do with the connection between their iPhone and Apple Watch. I have a original watch that is on an old os but does anyone here also have a watch?

I have an Apple Watch and the watch didn’t cause major battery drainage. My battery activity indicates the music app is guzzling power from my battery. Both when in use and in the background. I thought it might be my battery but there’s seems to be a lot of people with the same problem. Apple Music popped up with a message recently and I stupidly just agreed to what ever it was and since then my battery is only lasting 1-2 hours. The issue has only been over the past couple days

I started having this issue recently on iphone X running 13.5.

here is the kicker, I deleted Apple Music off my phone as I dont use it and its still using up 60%+ of my battery!!!

we need a sustainable solution from Apple