iPhone Battery Drain from Apple Music

Occasionally matched tracks fail to download to my phone. Usually there’s just one or two errors on one playlist. The spinning download icon keeps cycling indefinitely. It seems to be an issue with matched tracks from my personal library. I’m not sure if this is the culprit but generally I get issues with matched/icloud tracks rather than Apple Music subscription tracks. The Apple music app gets stuck in a cycle trying to download these rogue tracks.

Anyway this might not be the issue. However it is easy to carry around several playlists with a mix of subscription and matched tracks and not notice. If just one is stuck in cycle mode it could be the source of the drain. Is this enough to cause a heavy drain on the battery is the question.

I noticed that when I went into the music app there were a few songs that were downloading seemingly infinitely stuck on that icon cycling. I managed to get them downloaded and thereis no more cycling. I figured that was the issue causing the app to run in the background all the time. I'll see in a day or two if the drain stops I suppose.

iPhone X iOS 13.5.1 and also the music app is draining my battery, 70% (or 11hours and 20 minutes) off background activity, and I didn’t listen to music today. The download feature was already disabled on my phone. 🙁

Dam I’m having this same problem!!!!! I called Apple support yesterday and they acted like I was crazy! It’s either the latest iOS update, the Music App or both!! Dammmm. IPhone is HOT and battery drains very fast. Music app is culprit. Also, Music app doesn’t download songs anymore. So, no offline music. I thought Apple was better than this.

My mom has been having the same issue on her iPhone 6s. She doesn’t have an Apple Watch and Apple Music is not running on her iMac login.

Background App Refresh is off so

not sure what is going on either.

In the last 24 hours is it is showing 1 min on screen and 9 hours 10 min in background for Music.

Going to try turning off Automatic Updates for Software Update and Automatic Downloads for Music under her Apple ID.

Mine iPhone 11 battery is draining due to the music app running in the background, doing what I am not sure though it consumes 90%+ of my battery. Today, the battery is draining even when plugged in and is now warm to the touch. It did not charge at all overnight and I cannot keep it charge today.

NB: Always back up before following these steps.

I advise deleting the Music App on your iPhone and starting again. This will also delete the app on your Apple Watch automatically. Sign out of iTunes and then signed back in. Reinstall the app on your iPhone. Reload your library on your iPhone. Finally, I synched all of the tracks and playlists I wanted to play on my iPhone and Apple Watch again. This seemed to work for me. The battery is back to normal. In the battery health tab it says the Music app is behaving normally. I also recommend signing out of iTunes and clearing any tracks off all peripheral devices except your main music library.

Same problem with my iphone X on since iOS 13 update.

Without lyrics it runs normal , but with lyrics it drains 10% of battery with each song(3-4 mins).

Waiting for this fix so long but this problem is not even fixed with iOS 13.6.

Apple just neglecting this issue.

Me too iPhone X 13.3

Good battery health

Battery drain & Overheating!

Please fix it asap 🙏

No this doesn’t help. I thought it was my iPhone 7+ but turns out it’s the same problem in X

I am experiencing the same problem as well,i love to listen to Stations but Apple Music is really a battery killer,..

Actually it is ok on my iPhone 5c on iOS 10. It can still play ~50-100hrs of music in flight mode, while having about 60% battery capacity. The iPhone 7 would die in 10 hours or less.

This does not work.

I’m having the same issue as well, I’m on a 7 plus and I lose 5-10% battery for a 3 minute song it’s insane, I don’t even bother with it hopefully they fix it soon it’s a neat feature