Apple Music draining battery

Over the last 10 days, significantly more than safari - and all that usage cannot be the case whilst at work, and definitely not while asleep lol

There’s no way I’ve listened to THAT much music these past 10 days lol

Running iOS 13.5.1 and while my phone doesn’t get hot, I’ve noticed a significant battery drain than previously experienced. Hopefully a patch comes out soon, for all those affected, seeing as no solution works at this time...

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.

I’ve had a similar issue with my iPad Pro (iPad OS 13.5.1). It was fully charged and unplugged overnight with all apps closed and zero usage. Apple Music took 42% of my battery drain overnight. Siri took 20% but that is probably due to listening for the, ‘hey siri’, wake word.

I came across this article because I’d noticed recently my battery was draining quickly and did some research today. 

I think most of us have had the issue resolved. Can’t say if it was steps we did (there were multiple things folks tried. I did some, not others) or something on the Apple servers. It’s been crickets from Apple.

So far my 11 Pro Max has been fine. The problem never developed on my 2018 iPad Pro or 2020 SE business phone. All running latest iOS.

Sounds like most promising suggestion, thank you. Tried it, and after giving some time to see effect, unfortunately is still a no go for me. Apple Music still burning a huge hole with running in the background even when not in use. Outstanding for those that have got their issue resolved 👍🏽

I don't have an Apple watch. I was surprised that my problem did not return given the experience of others. I have no explanation. I thought I would mention my experience in case it helped Apple figure out what is going on.

This is also happening with the Washington Post app. When I first noticed it, there was 45 hours of background activity despite the app not being permitted to run in the background by my Settings choices.

I have uninstalled Washington Post and now cannot see any identifiable culprit, but my battery rapidly drains from only half an hour of on-screen activity.

Just want to throw in another case of this happening on an iPad Pro 2020. I have only tried turning off background updates for now, and that didn't make any difference. I'm going to start working through the other steps now...

I updated to iOS 13.6 on my iPhone X over a week ago and it did not fix the problem. The battery still drains quickly, although now the culprits seem to be "Home & Lock Screen" and "Siri" in addition the "Music" app running in the background. The crazy thing is that I haven't used the Music app in years so there is no reason why it should be doing anything in the background.

Does it still work fine? I did a reset recently, but it did not help me.

I have the same issue since a couple of days. Music App is draining my battery at an incredible level!

It drained 64% of my battery due to background activity during 14h23m!?

How to fix this?

This has been happening to my iPhone X all weekend. Phone was also getting incredibly hot as well as insane battery drain, despite not using the Music app of having it open.

Same here. Music hat 21 hours hours of background activity the last 24 hours.

Has Apple given a fix for this yet? It’s ridiculous. My phone is getting super hot and battery is dying super fast.