music app draining battery with iphone 11, ios 13.5.1

Since the Music app was still 100% active in the background all night (even after I deleted it) I have signed out of iTunes and app stores on the phone, now the background battery drain has stopped. As you can see Music (recently deleted app) was draining the battery all night. I signed out of iTunes and App stores at 7am and now the battery is normal again - although I have no Music app which isn't great. This is also the case on my work iPad so it is affecting my 3 iPads and iPhone.

I have the same problem. I already posted about not being able to download any music but now the Music app runs constantly in the background draining the battery massively. I even deleted the music app and it continues to drain the battery (see screenshots).

I had the same issue. I resolved it by entering the Apple beta program (https://beta.apple.com/sp/welcome) and installing the public beta 3 of iOS 15.4

If you should decide to try the same, remember to back up your phone first as always.

What worked for me was

1. Turn off "Settings > iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads"
2. Force restart (Vol up, Vol down, hold power until Apple logo appears)
3. Turn "Settings > iTunes & App Store > Automatic Downloads" on and off again. (I left it on for 10 seconds then turned it back off)

No idea why #3 was required but after #2, the phone started getting very hot again immediately.

Hope it works for at least some of you. I didn't want to go through the hassle of some of the other fixes so I'm glad this worked. Also hope my battery was not damaged permanently as I struggled with this for 2 weeks.

My gear:

• brand-new (2 weeks) iPhone SE 2020 128GB
• iOS 13.5.1
• Apple Music
• iTunes Match (very-long time subscriber -- since it was introduced)
• Two connected Apple Watches (original & Series 5)
• Phone "Restored" directly from prior phone (iPhone 8). i.e. the new phone-to-phone option

After 12 hours, I decided reset my iphone complety, I installed all applications again because I tried restores and was a really mess, I believed the problem on my case is because the Music APP is running and trying syncronized music on the apple watch, is leaving in a infinity loop draining the battery in less 4 hours.

The health of the my battery is 100% that is the only issue I noticed.

Just came off the phone to Apple support. Engineering suggested to make sure that automatic date and time was on. I remembered that in my privacy settings I had toggled off Setting Time Zone years ago. I logged out of the iTunes and app stores, toggled it back on, rebooted the phone, logged back into iTunes and turned sync on and now everything is downloading perfectly.

I’ll keep an eye on the background battery drain as that was a massive issue but it seems to have fixed it.

Since I’ve done this my phone is back to normal - no excessive background activity draining the battery.

I have an iPhone 8 Plus and the exact same thing is happening to me over the last couple of days. I have deleted the Music app but the battery is still being drained by this ‘recently deleted’ Music app.

I have same issue apparently the apple music app is running on backgorund, due that is trying syncronize the music to the apple watch, that is on my case, on the apple watch app this created a "sub-list" with the most playlist that you are listening (Almost 4 playlist). but never syncronize with the watch and the application leave running on the back the process generating a high consume of the battery. I tried disable this sync but doesnt worked.

I had this same issue. Spoke to Apple support today, and her suggestion was that I:

Quit the Music app, delete it, reinstall it, force restart my iPhone 11, plug it into my computer, then do a sync on my computer. After following these steps, Music seems to no longer be draining my battery

My issue is now resolved.

After deleting the music app, I reinstalled it and then went to the Music settings. I turned off Show Apple Music and then went into the music app which now showed no music. I also removed my downloads too. I then went back into the music settings and re enabled Show Apple Music and then enabled Sync library.

The music app is not drawing battery any more.

This has been happening to me as well. Apple Music is taking usually 68-70% of my battery, all while in Background. This is despite my shutting Apple Music down from Background refresh. Without using the phone, my battery now drains from 100% to single digits in less than 3 hours. Additionally, the phone gets very hot.

Same here, eventhough music app was deleted 24hours ago, it still drained my battery during 15 hours! Makes the iPhone unusuable!!! I need to charge the stupid thing now twice a day. And as others described, it gets burning hot!

apple needs to fix this ASAP, but hey, they don't care anyways.

I have been having the same issue since Thursday (7/2/2020). The Apple Music app had (17 h 33 m) running in the background. Since Thursday, it has run (23 h 25 m), (17 h 22 m), (20 h 20 m), (21 h), (21 h 45 m), and so far today (7 h 55 m, it is currently 12:35 pm) all in the background. I deleted this app days ago and it is still destroying my battery life. I fear that with this amount of drainage and recharging, my battery is going to have permanent issues.

Same problem started for me this 4th of July weekend. Both iPad Pro and iPhone 8+ are bogging down and draining battery very quickly - 100% to 20% in less than 3 hours. Devices are getting very hot too - not safe. Apple Music has used 18+ hours of battery in The background.

Turned off the show Apple Music and quit the downloads that were not downloading.

Closed all apps and restarted devices several times to no avail.

Not looking forward to deleting music app and re-downloading the 70+ gb of music I have on my devices.

C’mon Apple, there’s got to be a better way.

Thanks very much for this - it appears to have fixed the issue I’ve had for around a week - unable to download more than a handful of songs at a time, before seeing the eternal spinning circles and needing to restart the iPhone.

”Setting Time Zone” was already toggled on for me, so I switched it off, logged out of the App Store (this appeared to sign me out of the iTunes Store as well), switched the setting back on and restarted the device, into Music which began syncing, and once finished, I’m now successfully downloading playlists of several hundred songs without issue.