Pandora battery drain after ios 8.1

Count me in. I streamed Pandora through my Harley for about 2 1/2 hours of riding yesterday. It used 65% of the battery and my phone was HOT when I finished.

EDIT: That's 65% of an iPhone 6 Plus. That's a lot of battery.

Solution from Apple support turned out to be short-lived. Phone ran Pandora/bluetooth fine for two days, problem resurfaced yesterday with the same excessive heat and battery drain as before. Hopefully if enough complaints, they will come out with an upgrade that revolves this conflict.

Since upgrading my 5s to IOS 8.1, my phone gets really hot and runs out of battery about 1% per minute (regardless of use). Previously, I would use less than half my battery in an entire day!

I've turned off many features and the only thing that helped was turning LTE off (General>Cellular>Enable LTE). Now my phone only drains its batter about twice as fast as it used to. Of course, I have slow 3G service. But at least my phone isn't wrecked. It seriously was unusable before. The battery drained so fast that it wouldn't last even two hours. Plus it was getting so hot that I'm sure the phone was getting damaged.

Apple has GOT to fix this. I wish I had a Samsung phone. I know they have problems too--but at least they aren't so expensive.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem (since it means it might actually be addressed by the developers). I just migrated from an HTC One to an iPhone 6 (that shipped with 8.1) and was worried that battery life was going to be worse in general. But standby time seems to be pretty good, it's just Pandora that's really eating battery life. (Yes my phone gets really warm also.) I streamed from Google Play Music for a bit today and the drain doesn't seem to be as bad.

I have encountered the same problem as well. Using the Pandora app drains the battery in my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.1 rapidly and the phone gets very warm to the touch. I have tried to narrow down the problem to Pandora specifically by using other apps for streaming music including iTunes radio using the Music app and Google's Play Music app, which do not seem drain the battery nearly as quickly. Granted I have not used these nearly as much as Pandora, but my limited use of them appeared to be successful.

I notice this problem while using in my car streaming via LTE and connected to my car stereo using bluetooth. I rarely stream music from my phone outside of my car so I can't say for sure if this is occurring outside of this use case.

I too did an uninstall and reinstall of the Pandora app and was encouraged that it appeared to resolve the issue, however subsequent uses caused the same problem to resurface.

I've been seeing Pandora using much more power than acceptable lately. I've been using battery life to watch usage and when I'm using Pandora I will see usage of 1.5 amps or more of battery drain with the display at the lowest brightness. This causes the phone to get really hot and you can drop a couple percent in a few minutes and the CPU load average gets quite high like into the 3.00 range (reported in terminal) I think the issues started around the September or October update to Pandora. I am using iPhone 5s and 6+ and iPad mini retina all are on iOS 8.1 all are having this issue even when they were "new" / "fresh" installs before jail break and before any data was restored to them they had issues. The 5s and iPad mini had issues while on 7.1.2 as well.

The common thing is that there was an update to Pandora that made this an issue.

I've not let Pandora play long enough to really destroy my iPhone 6+ battery because I know its broken.

On my 5s it only holds 89% of original max capacity now (1390mAh is a 100% charge when 1550mAh is original max charge) after this happened a few times before i realized what was going on it actually was maxing out at 990mAh at 100% until I did a few cycles of the battery again. Before this update happened i was at 96% of original max capacity.

There is very clearly some kind of bug in the latest versions of Pandora for iOS.

I can confirm that through my testing that this appears to be specific to Pandora. I have used both Google Play and the Radio on the iTunes Music app without seeing the same battery drain/heat issues. After running fine for 2.5 days, I opened Pandora again and experienced the issue.

The use case in all of these scenarios is connected to my car via bluetooth streaming via LTE.

Still seeing this problem after having upgraded to iOS 8.1.1. While running errands last evening after the upgrade, I drove around and the battery dropped about 1% for every minute while using Pandora. I switched to Apple Music Radio again this morning and and drove for 15 minutes with no noticeable battery drain.

Just to update my contact with Pandora support: Three weeks ago I furnished them with all pertinent data about Pandora and iPhone iOS 8.1; data usage screen shots, etc. After not hearing back, I contacted Pandora support last week for an update. The reply was short; we are aware of the problem, and our engineers are working diligently to address it.

It seems to me that Apple would want to be at the front of this. If an app that is available in their store causes this kind of serious battery issues with their product, Apple has more than a casual interest in getting this resolved, thus putting the pressure on Pandora. This issue is serious enough to be grounds for having the app pulled until it's fixed.

Apple iTunes Radio is a good replacement. I paid the $25 for iTunes Match for a year, but don't use it. However it gives me Radio ad free. Also, as an Amazon Prime member, I get Amazon Radio for free, but it's just a bunch of fixed playlists. Better than nothing.

Dec 2, 2014, Pandora issued an iOS maintenance update, version 5.6.3. Continuing my e-mails to Pandora support, they have advised that this update does NOT address the battery issue with iOS 8.1, and their engineers continue to work on it.