Apple Music using lot of data

I have this same issue and I think it is something to do with iOS14.7.

• enabled lossless audio 9th June and noticed huge data use. Changed settings so it only downloaded songs over wifi. Data use was higher than before, but in an acceptable level, so problem fixed.
• No issues with data use for Apple music through the start-late July
• I would have updated to iSO14.7 on 22nd July (released 21 July), as at home and on wifi
• Large data use on Apple Music started 23rd July, with some days using over 1Gb for about 2 hours worth of listening. Only noticed the issue a couple of days ago
• Have turned off all Lossless, Dolby Atmos and every other setting I can see to try and reduce data use and still using around 25-30Mb per song.

It appears that iOS14.7 is defaulting to Lossless audio even when it is turned off in Settings.

They won't find a solution they will just have you do the normal trouble shooting that won't help you. There is a glitch in the app that needs fixed. It doesn't seem to affect everyone but I'm also experiencing this exact problem. It's very annoying that it's taking Apple this long to fix the issue.

I ran a quick test this morning and this is what I found

iPhone 11 Running iOS 14.7.1

My Apple Music settings are:

Cellular Data - On

Cellular Streaming - High Efficiency

Lossless Audio - Off

Dolby Atmos - Automatic

Download over Cellular - Off

Download in Dolby Atmos - On

Atomatic Download - On

Animated Cover Art - Wi-Fi Only

I reset my Cellular data statistic then disabled Wi-Fi and listened to 5 songs over the course of 12 minutes. I listened to each song for 2-3 minutes before skipping to the next song. After I checked the cellular data usage and Apple Music used 104 MB of data. That’s just over 20 MB of data per song or just over 8.5 MB of data per minute. I’m not sure if that’s normal but it sounds pretty high to me.

I created a bug report on their feedback page here https://www.apple.com/feedback/ Maybe if enough people report this they’ll look into it.

I’m having the same issue. Apple music used just over 600MB of data in 2 days. I probably listened to less than 30 minutes of music.

Same for me. It would be nice to get an acknowledgment that someone is aware then at least we know a fix is being worked on. Super frustrating.

Yes this right here is what has me on the edge of switching to another service. I'm tired of waiting and not even know if they will even fix it.

I already did this twice.

It's super high. It should be around 1.5mb per song on High Efficiency