Apple Music draining battery

I tried several different things. What seems to have worked was logging out of iCloud, then logging back in. Downside was it removed any downloaded music I had in my phone, so had to start over, but my battery is no longer getting hit and draining rapidly, even though I started downloading songs back to my phone.

What worked for me was

1. Turn off "Settings > iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads"
2. Force restart (Vol up, Vol down, hold power until Apple logo appears)
3. Turn "Settings > iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads" on and off again

No idea why #3 was required but after 2 the phone started getting very hot again immediately.

Hope it works for at least some of you. I didn't want to go through the hassle of some of the other fixes so I'm glad this worked. Hope my battery was not damaged permanently as I struggled with this for 2 weeks.

My gear:

• brand-new (2 weeks) iPhone SE 2020 128GB
• iOS 13.5.1
• Apple Music
• iTunes Match (very-long time subscriber -- since it was introduced)
• Two connected Apple Watches (original & Series 5)
• Phone "Restored" directly from prior phone (iPhone 8). i.e. the new phone-to-phone option

If you can't stop the downloading, remove downloads on those albums, swipe out the music app, reboot, hard reboot.

Nate

I solved the problem by deactivating cellular data for the music app and by deactivating automatic downloads in the music app settings. Worked immediately!

I've been having same issue as everyone else described, for about last day or two. I checked music downloads and had 105 songs trying to download! Cancelled downloads and will see if that resolves it. Thank you for posting!

Open the Music app; under Library select Downloaded Music; there should be a heading for “Downloading” that shows what is currently trying to download. I had a “cancel all downloads” at the top. After I cancelled, two more songs tried to download, so I cancelled those also.

I had the same issue. What fixed it for me was deleting the Music app. For me that was ok, because I rarely use it anyway. It all started when I downloaded ONE song on my MACBOOK. No problems noticed since deleting the app. (I have an iPhone 6s+).

Just been on the phone to apple support with the exact same issue. Was also struggling to download songs to the iPhone from my iTunes Music Match account

Turned off Music in the Settings > General > Background app refresh > Music. And restarted iPhone.

Songs now downloading from iCloud music match as before, hopefully will resolve the background activity issue too (67h 49m in the last 10 days!)

Phone X with the same problem on 13.5.1, started last week: Apple Music runs in the background and drains the battery. No Apple Watch. Battery drain continues with Music app deleted from iPhone!

Also was getting errors on Apple Music on my MacBook - unable to download music.

Saw another thread here (can't find now) suggesting to reinstall iOS/restore phone from finder in Catalina, delete app, reinstall app, change iCloud password, all that jazz. Did all the things but it did not fix the problem.

Right now, I've reinstalled the app so that I can control the settings. This seems to help because the battery usage by app is dropping for Apple Music as it exits the 24-hour window. In the Apple Music settings everything is off. Show Apple Music- off; Sync Library - off; cellular data - off. Under iCloud/iTunes no automatic downloads for Music, Apps, Books. No Automatic Cellular downloads, no Cellular App Downloads.

I'm using a 90 day free Amazon Music Unlimited, so the clock is ticking Apple! Unless there's a fix I'll have to cancel my family subscription to Apple Music and switch to something else.

Gizmodo picked up this story today: https://gizmodo.com/apple-music-sucking-up-your-iphone-battery-life-youre-1844307203

9 to 5 Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/08/apple-music-battery-drain/

MacRumors: https://www.macrumors.com/2020/07/08/iphone-users-report-music-app-battery-drain/

AppleInsider: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/07/08/apple-music-app-bug-reportedly-causing-sporadic-battery-drain

Think I got it fixed. I turned everything off (auto downloads, iTunes/App Store, background refresh) and then restarted my phone. Once my phone was back on, I kept all of those settings off for several hours. Then turned iTunes/App Store back on in my iCloud Settings. I launched Music and waited for it to sync. It took a little time for the Grey progress bar to start filling up Blue. Let it finish! It’s been several hours and my battery usage has returned to normal.

Like others, the problem was that there was music waiting to be downloaded from Apple. Circles spinning and spinning. When I got that straightened out (some mix of swiping out the Music app, rebooting, hard rebooting) it stopped and the phone was nice and cool. It had been warm before. No more drain.

I posted yesterday, this is a follow up. I have a 11 Pro Max.

(I also have a new 2020 SE which I use as my work phone since the quarantine began here in the NE, USA. No problems on that phone. )

We all seem to have had this issue arise around 7/4-7/6. And related to 13.5.1.

I turned off the background download AND the connection to my new Fitbit 4 which recently sent an update installing Spotify. In the Fitbit App I turned off access to Apple Media and Music. The only reason I thought to check this ( it’s an App I had no plans of using) were comments made by some about their Apple Watch.

Since I made two changes I can’t tell you which one was the culprit, but, so far no further problems. Phone went thru the day and night just fine. 🤞

So, as above, I turned off auto downloads for Music in iTunes/Apps on iPhone7 and did a hard reboot. That definitely fixed it. I have now enabled auto downloads again and used Music and the problem has, so far, not repeated. I’ll update you with any changes.

Okay folks soooo.... having updated iPhone XS this morning to 13.6 seems to have eliminated Apple Music as a culprit with battery drain... phew!! Thank you Apple!! Up to this point in time, no other tactic has worked, so if you’ve yet to update OS, I’d recommend doing so asap

I've just noticed that my Music App was trying to download some tracks without any success. I've stopped all downloads, no background activity since one hour. I hope it stays that way.