Apple Music draining battery

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!!!!

Me too! So I stopped the downloads and fully charged my Iphone X, within 2 hours it had dropped to under 10% battery again... bc Apple Music again used 68% of my battery in the background. I am using it while plugged in now. I turned off cellular data for Apple Music, lets see if that works. This has been happening for at least a few days (today is 7/6/2020) but possibly a week or 2. I use Apple Music on a near daily basis and a few days ago (sometime after I installed the latest update) the app prompted me to change my cellular data settings for Apple Music. I can’t remember what I was doing when it popped up, it is possible I was adding a song or album to my library. At that time I allowed Apple Music to use cellular data. Maybe that’s the problem, I don’t know yet.

Same issue. Battery being drained at an alarming rate due to background usage (87%). Started 3 days ago. Also causing it to get hot, and fearing it might get dangerous. Need to charge close to 4 times a day. Negatively affecting me doing business. Please fix this issue soon.

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.

I'm having this same issue, but from what I can see, I don't have any music trying to download actively.

For those of you who have deleted the music app and redownloaded, did it delete all of your music?

> I'm having this same issue, but from what I can see, I don't have any music trying to download actively.

You may not see, but it seems, like even without any circle spinning in the app, it does try to connect with the server on and on.

> For those of you who have deleted the music app and redownloaded, did it delete all of your music?

No. Not from ICML, nor even from my phone - after reinstalling the app, You can see same stuff downloaded. But that might differ, depending od Your preferences. You should be able to access Your music and re-download it anyway, when all of this is going to be resolved. Right now - I would't bet on it.

Thank goodness its not only me! I had this exact same issue, i updated the software and all apps were up to date and my battery is draining from Apple Music. I had uninstalled all apps that were connected to it and reinstalled them without connecting again. And i could not for the life of me figure out what this “background” usage is!! My phone feels like its on fire too but only in upper right side and on back of phone. Apple engineers need to fix this ASAP. 🙏🏻

I was having the same problem on my iPad. I ended up connecting to my computer and creating a backup. Then I restored my iPad from the backup. My problem was solved. My iPad is holding a charge and isn’t getting hot.

I saw this problem as well, and despite turning Background App Refresh *OFF* for the Music app, it continues to show up as the leading contributor to the device's battery drain. I then brought up the Apple Watch app, and under the Music app, I saw that a number of Apple Music playlists were set to ON, indicating that these would automatically sync to my Apple Watch. More importantly, the status looked to be IN PROGRESS (that is, a continuously animating circular arrow), suggesting that this sync process was running continuously.

Since these playlists were unfamiliar to me, I've never seen these settings previously or set them to sync, and I have no need for music sync'd to my watch, I set all playlists to OFF. This looks to have resolved the problem, though I'll continue to monitor battery usage in the coming hours to confirm.

I'm having this exact same problem with my iPhone 11, recently updated to IOS 13.5.1. I never had Background App Refresh turned on and I haven't find any downloading song in the Music app. I might try to backup my phone to iTunes and do a reset later. I hope Apple fixes this issue soon.

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+).

What worked for me is deleting the Apple Music App, then I rebooted my iPhone. I reinstalled the Apple Music App. I then went to Settings>>Music>Mobile Data, switched it off.

I never had any spinning downloads. I took my phone of charge this morning at 8am (UK Time), at 9am I still 100% battery.

So far The Battery App is reporting 16m (Background Activity), which is substantially less than yesterday

Here in Holland the same problem on 2 iPhones since the last update. And we don't have or use smart watches or something. Even without listening and background turned off Apple Music is draining the battery on both phones.

My collegaes recently bought Samsung phones...

Having exactly same issues for the last 2 days on iPhone 8. Software is up to date. I do use Apple Music so not an option to delete but evident that the battery is being drained incredibly fast for the last 2 days by the music app which I have not used for 2 days. Tried all the suggestions so now wait and see. This is clearly an issue which Apple need to deal with ASAP. Only been a problem for last 2 days

Running iOS 13.5.1 on iPhone XR and have used Apple Music and the Music app religiously for about 3 years now never with an issue. Now this battery draining issue started about a week ago out of the blue where the Music app background activity is the main culprit of battery utilization. Even when i have the music app closed and revisit battery usage in the morning its still the main culprit of utilization. Hope Apple can fix this because i'm not about to lose 3 years worth of playlists swapping and deleting apps from here and there; ridiculous!