Apple Music draining battery

Same issues with Apple Music app running for 16+ hours in the background and draining my smart battery case by mid-afternoon before it starts draining my phones battery.

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 13.5.1

+1 Same issue.

On old iPhone SE running 13.5.1 with a paired Apple Watch Series 2. First noticed because phone was uncomfortably hot in my pocket, around July 5 or 6. Inspecting Battery Usage, I saw Music app was far and away the biggest battery hog, with a note about Background Activity being a contributing factor.

I turned off Music app’s background app refresh (Settings>General>Background App Refresh). This seems to have worked, as the Music app no longer shows up as a top offender in the Battery Usage list.

I have an IPhone 11 Pro, and have exactly the same issue. Battery is drained each day in about 6 hours with >80% drained by the Music app background activity. This has only started happening over the last few weeks.

I faced the same issue and I managed to fix it by changing my iPhone Date & Time setting to 'Set Automatically'. You also need Location Services to be on for proper Time zone configuration. More details are available here: https://www.iphonetricks.org/how-to-fix-apple-music-battery-drain-issue/

Like others, the problem was that there was music waiting to be downloaded from Apple. Circles spinning and spinning. When I got that straightened out (some mix of swiping out the Music app, rebooting, hard rebooting) it stopped and the phone was nice and cool. It had been warm before. No more drain.

I posted yesterday, this is a follow up. I have a 11 Pro Max.

(I also have a new 2020 SE which I use as my work phone since the quarantine began here in the NE, USA. No problems on that phone. )

We all seem to have had this issue arise around 7/4-7/6. And related to 13.5.1.

I turned off the background download AND the connection to my new Fitbit 4 which recently sent an update installing Spotify. In the Fitbit App I turned off access to Apple Media and Music. The only reason I thought to check this ( it’s an App I had no plans of using) were comments made by some about their Apple Watch.

Since I made two changes I can’t tell you which one was the culprit, but, so far no further problems. Phone went thru the day and night just fine. 🤞

Of course immediately after posting, but I agree, my phone seems to have reverted and no longer draining and all downloads are working as before. Hopefully remains that way. Wonder if we will ever find out/or Apple tell us what it was. I have to say finding these posts at least me feel like it wasn’t just me and made it easier to wait for a fix.

I am spending most of my day avoiding Apple Music which sucks because I love my music but it drains even faster unless I have everything off. This is a ridiculous waste of time.

What is going on, Apple?????

I don’t use Apple Music, ever. The app isn’t open or active in any way. I turned off all background activity. *85%* of my battery usage is Apple Music, all background activity.

This is killing my battery life. Please, please, please fix this bug. Borderline unforgivable coming from Apple.

Same issue but 95% on background activity for Music. Logged a call with Apple and they sent me an article on how to manage your battery health <deep breath> I will call again and reference this thread, but very frustrating.

So, as above, I turned off auto downloads for Music in iTunes/Apps on iPhone7 and did a hard reboot. That definitely fixed it. I have now enabled auto downloads again and used Music and the problem has, so far, not repeated. I’ll update you with any changes.

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!

It’s strange that so many of us started having the same problem at around the same time. Apple changed something so, what was it and how do I fix it? This is total crap. And we’ll be the ones who have to go through a bunch of junk to try to correct it. If this is another attempt to convince me I should upgrade my iPhone X, it won’t be to another Apple product.

It seems, like the issue was solved by Apple. For those of You, who still experience it, I suggest, You at least hard restart Your devices. If this does not help, You can try deleting the Music App, hard restarting Your devices, and then reinstalling app from store, logging in, syncing library. See if this helps. I am not sure, if the solution works without those steps, since I was taking all of them many times, before the issue was gone in my case.

Of course, it's possible that the solution was not rolled out to everyone yet. There was no statement from Apple.

Also, Apple Music had some other issues in last few hours - my music library was not syncing across my devices for few hours. But this happens once for a while and resolves itself after some time.

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.