Apple Music draining battery

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!

I have an iPhone 6s, iOS 13.5.1, with a 6 month old battery (replaced in January 2020) which still operates at 95% capacity. Have not had issues with battery drain until 7/4 when phone was hot to touch after charging overnight, which has now happened three days in a row. Throughout the day the battery drains quickly. I have not used Apple music since last weekend (6/28), but according to Battery stats, on 7/5 Apple music had used 67% of battery, with 6 hr 43m in background. Paired devices include an Apple watch series 2.

As I have typed this message, my phone battery has gone from 98% to 89% (yes, down 9%) over about 5 min, despite having only opened Settings. Prior to this my battery would stay over 90% charged for a few hours even after using the phone for several tasks with different apps.

I have not had this issue with my phone before 7/4, but looking at this forum it appears that several other iPhone owners are currently experiencing this.

How can this be fixed? What has worked for other users?

Despite cancelling all downloads the other day, after reading this I checked again. It was trying to download two songs. Not sure how long that’s been going on, but hopefully this helps!

i had manually turned off the background refresh after my post earlier today and that seems to have helped as well.

i currently have it off the charger and am monitoring the battery usage.

Battery is now down to 52% about 45 min after posting my comment above. All apps are sluggish now.

Whatever the phone is doing is really degrading the battery.

This appears to be a known issue with iOS 13.5.1:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ios-13-5-1-suffers-from-a-horrible-battery-drain-issue/

When will 13.6 be released (with hopefully a fix)?

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!

Same thing guys but get this.. my iPhone XS stopped responding on 7/3 and I know it had to do with this issue. The bad thing is the phone motherboard was destroyed and I had to get and buy a new iPhone and I am having the exact same issue with my new one! It’s killing my battery on this one and getting way too warm. Apple Support help!!

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’ve been having this same issue as well!! All of a sudden on Friday, 7/3, my phone started getting VERY hot and the battery drained quicker than ever before! It even ate up 21GB of data within a 3 hour period (because I wasn’t connected to WiFi)!! I’ve done everything I know to do! I see some of you have said to restore from iTunes - I will give that a try, but it sounds like Apple needs to respond ASAP and get this corrected!!!!

I've got same issue with constant CPU Usage 100%, fast Battery discharge and Device overheating on a iPhone 5s (iOS 12.4.7) since Friday, 7/3

Try the following to fix it:

Open Settings > iTunes & App Store > Music

Tap Automatic Downloads On and Off 2 times

Set Automatic Downloads OFF !!

Open Music App > Library > Album

Check each Album if any one of them have the Download spinning..

If Yes then click on each Album spinning and Stop Download!!

Now Restart your Phone and the Issue should be fixed.

Seems there is a conflict between iPhone Music Library and Apple Music Server if Automatic Downloads is On.

Hope it helps..

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 did the following and no more battery drain from the Music App for the last couple hours:

-Cancelled in progress downloads in the Music app

-Turned off cellular data for Music app

-Turned off auto download for Music app

-Turned off background refresh for Music app

-Shut off phone for about 10-15 minutes and restarted

I’m not sure you have to do ALL of those steps to fix it, but that’s what I did and I don’t know which combination of steps actually fixed it. I think shutting down and rebooting is important for the changes to take effect.

The same thing has been happening to my iPhone X for at least 2 weeks now. I have to charge my phone several times a day because of how fast it drains. I don’t even use Apple Music and it hasn’t been open in years. It also gets insanely hot during use and has even given me the heat warning while inside my air conditioned home. Apple needs to fix this ASAP

Well, I decided to restore my phone from Mac backup - let me advise you NOT to do that. I have lost everything and it's taking forever to actually restore - assuming that it actually does. I have been without a phone ALL day because of Apple's amazing screw up and lack of solutions to this problem they have caused. So, if you all can figure out another way to fix your phone without restoring it, I would advise that. None of it was working for me - so I was left this option. :(

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.