Apple Music draining battery

Thanks- actually I posted the same article here this morning.

it just would have been nice if Apple said “yeah, we know it’s an issue and we are addressing it” instead of leaving it to users to sleuth this out.

cheers

Yes, I’m having exactly these issues over the last couple of days with iPhone7 and Apple Watch 3. Have turned off Music background refresh on both devices and rebooted but the battery health monitor continues to show many hours of background activity for Music. It appears that it’s not actually switching off. Any fixes helpful.

My phone is doing the same. I have hard reset my phone. shut everything down regarding the music app and have my phone charging and the battery drain is still happening while charging. The charger cannot keep up with the drain! This started when I did the IOS 13.5.1 update. This needs to get taken care of ASAP! Was on hold with Apple support for an hour today to get a guy to tell me to do all of the things I've already done. He told me sorry nothing he can do, this is not a current problem they know about.

I tried that Andyf... glad it worked for you, but it has not for me. Do you have an Apple Watch? Mine did an unexpected restart mid afternoon yesterday....don’t know why....didn’t fix the issue though.

I have an XR running 13.5.1. I have similar issues with Music but it goes beyond that. Other Apps do the same thing; e.g., News, Washington Post, Dropbox to name a few. This occurs with Background Refresh off and the apps closed, and goes on throughout the day. It started about 2 weeks ago.

Apple... this is super irritating.

i actually deleted the music app from my phone altogether to see if it would help. i deleted it last night before going to bed and it still is showing running in the background for 40-55 minutes every hour since deleting it!!!!! WTF!!! (except it's now showing up as "recently deleted app"

I'be tried, but the issue persisted.

For now, I've deleted the app. My music library was not affected.

And since I have work phone with Android, I've downloaded Apple Music app there (yes, there is official Apple Music app for Android) and I'm listening from that device.

This is terrible. Apple music is running for 18+ hours a day in the background. My phone is also staying hot a good portion of the day. Apple, how about you step up and fix this or buy me a new phone when the battery burns up?!

to my previous early comment Apple music seems still runs when its turn OFF what gives. I guess the one minute on screen was me checking if it was on ??!?!

see below.

Bring on update 13.6 this last update is a shocker

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

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.

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.