Apple Music draining battery

I backed up my phone onto a computer and restored the phone, then selected to restore from the backup and it seems to be working back as usual now.

I believe the problem is related to iTunes getting stuck on a song download. Once I cancelled the download, battery performance was back to normal.

Backup your iPhone in iTunes. Restore iPhone from your backup. This fixed mine. Didn’t lose anything.

This is fixed. I just did a reset (up/down on volume key and hold power button down on iPhone 11) and I’m back to normal.

I just upgraded to the iPhone 11 pro and was finding the same problem. I turned off Background App Refresh for Music and it did nothing. I turned off Cellular and it did nothing. What I did notice was that it seemed to be trying to download tracks. I could see a bunch of spinning wheels.

When you click on the spinning wheels, it stops the download. I'm hoping that will help with the background activity. Will update tomorrow.

I had just the same problem. Didn't know about Battery Health and ended up having the battery replaced as I thought it must be old and worn out. No! Problem persisted! When I read all these posts I discovered the Music App was draining the phone.

In the end I just deleted the Music App. Rebooted the phone and it's sorted.

Okay it cost me a new battery, but I was very closed to buying a new phone because of this.

GET IT SORTED APPLE!!!!

Had the same situation last night. Hard restart after deleting the app helped.

I seem to have fixed the issue on iPhone7 by turning of automatic downloads for Music in iTunes/ Apps and doing a hard reset. Also have Watch 3 but not touched any settings.

Fixed for me after restarting my phone 🙌

mr_woodpecker,

This update is appreciated.

You've done great work so far in monitoring and pin-pointing the cause of the unexpected battery drain. Thank you for taking the time to complete these steps as well. With the issue remaining even after all of the steps taken, I would recommend getting in touch with Apple Support next: Contact - Official Apple Support. They should be able to investigate this behavior further to determine next best steps to get this resolved.

Thank you for your time. Take care.

OMG, I feel like that is the issue. I checked and had 9 songs trying to download for the last 3-4 days. I stopped the downloads, and am looking forward to checking the background usage in a couple of hours. Potentially thank you!

Well, it's a closest thing to actual help. In my case, I first noticed problems with downloading music from ICML. Than, after trying to resolve this one for a few days, I thought about battery usage and phone being hot.

Deleting music app and restarting phone seem to solve battery draining problem for now. As to the music app - after those steps I've managed to to download few tracks and the app is stuck again. So it is not completely helpful, but as I said - as close as it gets now.

Let's wait for 13.6.

ive been having exact problem with my iPhone 11 Pro Max. I recently updated my Fitbit to Charge 4 from the 3. Based on what I just read I just looked at my Fitbit settings and saw it was accessing my Apple Media and Music. I just turned that off.

I hope that was the problem. I’ll let you know after 24-48 hours.

Also see this thread.

Pretty sure this is related to a change on Apple's side to the DRM of Apple Music files. They are downloaded, but not saved locally due to some permissions issue, putting the phone in an endless download loop that drains the battery.