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Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

jack_206 — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:43:43 GMT

This was an issue on iOS 9 and still seems to be happening on iOS 10. Spotify is using 3x more battery than any other app and accounts for about 50% of all battery usage. This never used to be an issue, and I don't understand what it could possibly be doing that is so resource-hungry. Most of my listening is via saved songs on my offline playlist, so it isn't a mobile data issue.

Anyone know how to resolve this? A music player should not be impacting device battery life like this.

Edit Oct 11 2016: Adding a screenshot since this doesn't seem to be getting any traction with Spotify. I unplugged 4 hours ago and my battery is at 13%. And 46% of my battery has been used by Spotify over the last 24 hours.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

adriank1410 — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 15:55:20 GMT

Maybe you're just using the app a lot. Or it's downloading new songs for offline use.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

Riddekah — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:48:11 GMT

this actually depends on if you use your celluar network to listen to music if you do that then it's almost totally normal it for drain that much battery because then you are streaming music not just a music player! A helpful tip for you if you don't wanna have this problem is to download the playlist to your phone and listen in offline mode instead!

Hope this helped you!
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Best Regards Riddekah!

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

jack_206 — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 23:17:04 GMT

I specifically said in my original post that I am not using mobile data.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

RR41 — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 06:32:35 GMT

I also experience an excessive battery drain since updating to IOS 10 and to the latest version of Spotify. Before this was definetely not like this.
This is also the case if I just listen to offline music!

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

DML71 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 09:40:31 GMT

Me as well.

I'm using spotify for saved playlists and the battery drain is ridiculous.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

P4ZUZU — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 23:09:24 GMT

Same here. Nothing seems to help.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

HIMeretre — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:47:02 GMT

I am also getting severe battery drain since upgrading to iOS 10. I listen to offline playlists but by midday my battery has gone down to 20%! Definitely didn't used to do this...

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

xbonio — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 16:56:38 GMT

It started to drain my battery since the iOS10 upgrade that came with Spotify UI change.
iPhone 5S

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

bman12121212 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 23:48:44 GMT

I agree, something needs to be done about this. I only listen to music offline that's downloaded to my iPhone 5s, turn offline mode on, have lower power mode on, and still my battery gets completely drained after 2-3 hours of listening to music through out the day. I don't even use my phone that much except for Spotify. Ever since I updated to iOS 10, my battery drains faster than iOS 9. There needs to be a way to reduce power consumption. This is ridiculous!

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

Depark26 — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 14:33:22 GMT

This is happening for me as well. I just woke up this morning and checked the battery status for the past. Spotify is running in the background like crazy. I have saved playlist as well.

On iOS 10 and have Spotify 6.5.0

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

jack_206 — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:22:37 GMT

Now up to 62% battery usage over the past 24 hours. Beyond ridiculous.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

Supersounds — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:24:27 GMT

Same situation here.
After the IOS 10 upgrade on my iPhone 6, I have doubled, at least, the battery usage.
Only using offline playlists in the background.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

messymarv — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 21:02:22 GMT

Same here. 5S though

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

NorthBuddy — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:53:48 GMT

Same for me as well (iOS10, 6s, all updates, no mobile sync, nothing to sync left)

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

reinisr — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:51:05 GMT

On my home wifi, 15 minutes playback = 15% of battery on moderate volume, ios 10, iphone 7

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

Extreme-501 — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 12:07:32 GMT

This is happening to me too on the iPhone 7 running iOS 10.0.2. Playing only offline playlists, sync over cellular turned off. Drains around 15-20% battery on my 30 minute subway ride. This is too much!

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

Jetfuelmeme — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:26:31 GMT

Exact same problem for me too, Spotify has the most battery use (40%) on my 6s (running 10.0.2), even with BAR and push notifications disabled, in ADDITION to offline mode, with only moderate use. Hope they fix it soon because this is a joke.

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

ZSchm79 — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 06:20:33 GMT

My iPhone 6s plus uses much more energy becasuse of Spotify, 1 hour cardio training (streamed music YES, BECAUSE OF SPOTIFY IS A STREAMING SERVICE) -> -20 percent of battery 😞 I hate this...

Re: Spotify causing severe battery drain on iPhone 6S running iOS 10

kevmartian — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 23:39:41 GMT

I'm having the exact same problem. It never used to drain my battery much at all, but ever since iOS 10 my battery has been dying midday with a moderate amount of listening.