Apple Music draining battery

Firstly, you will be best updating your phone to IOS 13.5.1 you can do this by going into Settings > General > Software Update.

Make sure all your music is download on your device, having to play it back through wifi or data can consume battery life.

A little less than a week ago, I too saw this problem on my iPhone X. I found my battery down unexpectedly at 30%. When I looked at the battery usage in settings, it showed Music (in background) as the culprit. I closed the music app, shut down and then restarted the iPhone. I guess I have been lucky. The problem has not returned.

I found a fix to this - not sure where I read about it. Log out of iCloud, then log back in. Voilà!

For the past 10 days or so my iPhone has been burning battery like crazy, primarily in the Music app. I would be well below 40% before noon. It also wouldn’t download music from iTunes to my phone - just kept spinning. (The battery burn was still happening even after I halted downloads in the Music app). Logging out of iCloud and back in again solved both problems. I was still above 95% at 1pm!

For me, killing the downloads seems to have solved the problem. No battery drain since hours.

Hi mr_woodpecker,

Thank you for using the Apple Support Communities! I understand you are experiencing unexpected battery drain and I'd like to help out.

It sounds like you've isolated the battery drain to the Music app based on what you've monitored. You took good steps so far. Apple recommends following the tips and suggestions found in this support article to optimize your device for the best battery life: Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple. If you just performed the iOS 13.4.1 update in the past 24 hours, or if you need to adjust some settings based on the recommendations in the above article, try charging your iPhone to 100% and test for at least 48 hours after applying the recommendations.

Keep me posted, if the issue remains. Regards.

I had family share and my children were using my apple ID for apple music. They had to stop using my id and use their own. But apple first had me reload apple music after saving my file info to an external drive, that had my music I had loaded to apple music years ago.

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.

Im guessing show Apple music has not been fixed yet. Every update. Every turn off and back on the phone it turn it self back on draining battery like a lead ballon. I found turning it off ‘show apple music” saves the battery. I do hope it is not link to that temp. Disable until tomorrow feature switching back on tomorrow .

will we see. and hopefully a fix to this. As i am sure your apple music was/is killing my battery.

as my optimizer/ health has also dropped.

see below. Only option to save battery is switching to low power mode. After taking off charger.

I noticed this happening a few weeks ago. I’m on an iPhone X with iOS 13.5.1.

I deleted the Music app as I don’t want to harm my battery and it appears that all other less severe software-based workarounds are not reliably successful. Of course, as an Apple Music subscriber, this is not a long-term solution. If I weren’t WFH due to COVID then I wouldn’t have any way to get to my music at work! And of course, in my car, there will be no music for the foreseeable future.

This issue appears to have cleared up for me, too.

I was having this issue on my iPhone X with iOS 13.5.1. A few days ago I deleted the Music app from my phone. Reinstalled this morning from the App Store, and after 4 hours, my charge % is fine, my phone has not gotten hot, and Music hasn't even shown up in the Battery preference pane. No hard restart.

This is only due to Apple Music app. And Apple does nothing to fix that. The app drains battery.

I ended up turning off Music’s access to cell data. It seems to have helped but why TH is it draining the battery in the background?

Mine too! I stopped the downloads and will check back after a full charge to see if this helps the battery issue!

I ultimately ended up deleting the music app. Haven’t had any issues since deleting. I’m too afraid to redownload it

I have the same issue.

Just remove music app, cancel subscription, and move to spotify.

Works like a charm