Battery drain, overheating and lagging when using Spotify

[bilbobeuli]

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

iPhone 13 mini

Operating System

iOS 18.5

My Question or Issue

For about three or four days now, the app starts to lag pretty badly after just a few minutes of clicking through artists libraries and streaming different songs. The battery of my iPhone also starts to heat up very quickly because of this. Spotify becomes pretty much unusable because of the lag. It does NOT crash the app though. So the music will keep playing in the background, and if I leave the phone as is, the battery also cools down soon after. Performance issues will remain however until I force close the app.

[wordless]

Same here! Songs keep buffering or won’t play at all—it’s super frustrating. Hope Spotify sorts this out soon.....

[demo-fortunetiger]

Glad I’m not the only one with this issue. Tried reinstalling, but no luck. Hoping for a fix ASAP.....

[Schwarzkümmelöl]

I've been experiencing similar issues lately—especially the overheating and rapid battery drain on my iPhone. Hopefully, Spotify can address this soon with an update. Thanks to everyone sharing their experiences—it helps to know it's not just me......

[angelea]

Has there been any update to this? I'm still experiencing the same issues and it's making me contemplate moving to Apple music instead. 

[kristina7g]

I am experiencing the following issues with the Spotify app on iPhone 16 Pro: app lagging, battery drain and overheating of phone, delayed responses after input, app freezes completely and has to be exited (even with downloaded music). I’ve reset my phone, changed to low power mode, cleared cache, etc and NO CHANGE.

I will not uninstall & reinstall because I am not losing all of my downloaded music (Spotify has had ample time to come up with a solution so users don’t lose music if forced to uninstall). The past few updates have bricked Spotify for me and I won’t continue to pay premium for an app that I literally cannot use!!! 

[jpvnorden]

I have the same problem with my iPhone 16. Only when using Spotify (scrolling the library, etc.) the battery becomes very hot, the app stutters and this gets worse. Tried all solutions, but still the same problem. Glad I'm not the only one either. But I hope, like the rest, that Spotify will come up with a solution soon.

[LyricDynasty]

I am on iPhone 13 pro ios 18.5 (the latest). Having exact same problems and it’s been doing it for months. I am giving them until September then I am finally switching. Stop adding all these unnecessary features (especially laggy ai) if we can’t even PLAY MUSIC. The performance of this app drops by the month!

[angelea]

We've had numerous app updates since this was brought to attention and still absolutely no follow-up?

[LyricDynasty]

Yup. I just switched from Spotify to Tidal using Soundiiz because of it. If you end up doing it and want something very similar, I suggest YouTube Music or Apple as the search is better on there. But I did Tidal because of the sound quality, artist pay, and the UI looks better than before 🙂