Apple Music draining battery

I am having the same issue. My phone will be at 100% in the morning and will be at 20% by early afternoon. I even now am putting it in low power mode as soon as it is below 80% to help slow the drain but just realized today the music app, which is not even up and running on my phone, is draining the battery in the background throughout the day.

Don't bother. You'll end up deleting it again. That's where I've stopped.

I've tried all the ideas brought here - it does not work fine even on cleaned phone, with iOS restored through iTunes. So I wait for the update. I'd give a try to iOS 13.6 beta, but it should be no more than few days - I can manage. I just hope, Apple knows what happen on 2 / 3 of July and they will react.

I talked to Apple support on the phone about this. His only idea to fix it was to delete my playlists. He says those are constantly updating. I deleted all of my playlists. The problem is exactly the same. Music Background Activity used 82% of my battery while I was sleeping. All background activity is turned off. I guess I will call back.

I've read everyone's replies to try and fix this problem on my super old iPhone (4s maybe?) ... I haven't used Music in ages and I have the Background App Refresh options as Off, yet I was down 50% of my battery in 3 hours and I wasn't even using it!

I deleted the Music app, and now the battery usage activity shows 'Recently Deleted Apps' taking 25% of my battery!

This is ridiculous - I've gone from 99% battery to 49% in one hour, just to read an eBook over lunch.

My previous iPhone crashed because I didn't do the system updates, so now I do each one - but my next phone won't be an Apple if they're trying to force an upgrade with a battery leak.

I have had this same exact problem with my airpods when I connect them to my apple tv to watch a show. They will disconnect and re-connect to my phone. It is like my phone won't drop the connection. I've had to turn bluetooth off on my phone when I want to use my airpods on another device.

I am also experiencing the music battery drain.

The solution for me was turn off automatic Downloads under music an app settings. Then I went into Apple music/library/Downloaded Music And saw that they were pending downloads just sitting there spinning so I canceled all 19 of them. Problem seems to be solved

Having the exact same problem. Have turned off background refresh on nearly every app, and have rebooted my phone twice. Same battery drain problem. Phone gets hot and drains rapidly. Don’t want to restore my phone but thinking that may be the only fix...

I just purchased a new iPhone 11 a few days ago, and my battery is crashing so fast. I haven't even used the Apple Music App yet and it says that it has been running in the background for over 18 hours and has used 95% of my battery. My phone is also getting very hot from this. I am concerned this will kill my battery on my new phone. I have turned off automatic downloads, I have deleted the app and reinstalled it, and I have done a hard reset on my phone. I would love to see a solution on this asap!!

I've tried a couple of things, also reinstalling, and there just one thing that helps: delete the app and hope for a fix.

There's also one definite sollution: delete Apple. In the old day's I really loved their products but nowadays I hardly manage to see surplus value. This one could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

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.

I had this same issue. Hot phone, rapid battery draining. Then I deleted apple music from my phone and the battery is working normally again.

I'd like to use apple music again, but won't do so until the next IOS update is released. Whatever they did in 13.5.1 is a disservice to their customer base.

Day later update: I disabled everything still no change and still shows apple music background activity is draining the battery. Disabled cellular data and music; disabled background app refresh; i then blew out all my downloaded music on my phone. No ah ah!! Need my phone for work and this music app battery drain is killing me!

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.

After cancelling all downloads you need to hard restart your phone. Make sure you have disabled background app refresh for music.

Turn off auto downloads

And turn off. “Use cellular data”

after cancelling downloads go back and check them again after restarting your phone periodically. Mine got requeued a few times

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.