Apple Music draining battery

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.

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!

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.

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.

Having this same issue. It just started yesterday. I have no idea what I did but my iPhone 8+ started getting really hot and my battery was gone in a few hours. I wasn’t even listening to music and even force closed the app. I’ve shut my phone down for 30 minutes, force restarted it and logged out of iCloud and logged back in, but Music still keeps hogging the battery. It’s using more power than the charger can give it.

when I logged out of Apple Music, I noticed that my down loaded songs weren’t downloading and had hung up. I canceled them, then it tried to sync my library and that hung as well. I canceled those processes and cleaned up my library, but the battery drain still persists

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.

So this is how bad the background activity is on my music app. Background activity for pretty much 24 hours a day since about 3 July. I subscribe to Apple Music so deleting it isn't really an option. They really need to fix this.

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 am having the exact same problem since I updated to iOS 13.5.1. I'm on an iPhone 11 Pro. Battery drains quickly during the day due to this background activity. Never had to charge my phone during the day before, but I do now. Very frustrating!

I am replying just so that Apple can see the magnitude of the problem...