App Store MASSIVE Battery Drain

Phone? IOS version?

 

you probably won't believe this at first, but answer me this question - do you have an apple watch? I've found that sometimes playlist syncing gets very messed up (i think i've stumbled on when it happens - seems to really go bad after going for a run without my phone). Try un-pairing and re-pairing (either from backup or clean from scratch) and see if that resolves it. This has happened to me numerous times now and the only way to stop the battery drain is to un-pair and re-pair.

Music app and music syncing on apple watch is badly coded and seems to need a real update to fix this problem.

 

I've been wondering that myself for some time - it is very odd that it shows up as consuming via app store. but without a double i've known for some time that it was the apple watch music syncing that was doing it. The only part i'm still unsure of is what triggers it. Like i said i think i've seemed to narrow it down to when i go running with the apple watch and listen to music over bluetooth beats headphones - when i get home it seems to somehow "lose" the music sync and it just destroys the battery in some kind of death loop until you unpair. it's a huge problem and i can't believe that apple hasn't fixed it yet.

 

That's great I'm glad to hear it worked. I've had success in restoring the watch from a backup most of the time but once or twice had to start fresh to get music sync to work. Its highly flaky I'm very hopeful for a fix in the next iOS update. Let us know if you are able to replicate the issue when you go for a workout without your phone.

 

I'm having the same issue! I did a wipe and reload on both devices and they were working fine until I went for a run and synced up some music and then it started happening again. I took it to the apple store and they had no clue, told me to wait for a iOS update. But I didn't put it together until this thread! I'm going to try unpair/repairing now and see how it goes.

 

I may have the same issue. Today I noticed in the battery usage that music has almost 5 hours of background activity. I want to try un-pair and re-pair my watch. One question though, doesn't un-pair a watch also wipe it clean?

 

When using the watch and phone are you on a 2.4ghz wireless network?

I noticed that when I was doing a watch upgrade if I wasn't on a 2.4ghz wifi network it would take hours to upgrade as I assume it was using Bluetooth to transfer the file rather than wifi as the watch cannot connect to a 5ghz network. Maybe this is why it's taking a long time to sync your playlists etc?

 

I can confirm unparing/ restoreing and then stopping the music sync fixes the battery drdain

Yes it does but I restored it when I repaired and stopped my music sync. Today its seems to be running normal

 

Omg..... my iPhone 7+ started having the same battery drain a few days ago with the App Store showing as the culprit under battery stats. I actually tried syncing a playlist onto my Apple Watch maybe a day or two before that. It would make perfect sense!!!!
I ended up having to wipe and restore my phone yesterday, but probably would've been much easier if I had seen this thread earlier!!!

 

yeah, phone batter 6s with 10.1 beta is for s..t.. not sure if it is the AW2 or something else, but I am literally getting HALF the batterylife of before..Battery manager in ios settings doesn't really show anything that is using unusual battery - at least not obviously.

Maybe I'll unpair the watch and see if that fixes it.

 

the crappy playlist sync only worked once for me and it was a pain in the behind trying to get it to work most times. now its done this and killed my battery. thank you for tying the two together for me. i think we've come to the root of the problem potentially now i just have to figure out how to reverse it without backup/restore etc.

 

I've tried what seems to be all possible things to prevent the battery drain. I've come to the conclusion it's simply not operating as it should and code needs to be fixed. I am no longer trying to put music on my Apple Watch until they can sort it out (it really hopefully will be fixed in 3.1). Otherwise I have a very expensive Apple Watch Edition that can't play music when I exercise with it.