I don't use Spotify but it would be interesting if someone flipped on Record App Activity to see what it's doing behind the scenes a bit. Settings > Privacy > Record App Activity This will record a log of what all the apps are doing over a 7 day period and you can save and examine the log.
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Spotify Acknowledges Battery Drain Issues on iOS 14.8 and iOS 15, Promises Fix Soon
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A better question is how can Spotify short change iOS users for the better part of a decade, and those users keep coming back.
Most, but Daniel Ek is a ****head as well, but I feel that Spotify is far better than Apple Music.
Those that think AM is better is brain washed.
You see, when Apple does software these days, they do it just enough to make it functional and make sure it looks pretty. Then they just leave it. No updates, no implentation of user feedback. Nothing.
You see, when Apple does software these days, they do it just enough to make it functional and make sure it looks pretty. Then they just leave it. No updates, no implentation of user feedback. Nothing.
lol no thanks, i rather my phone lose an hour charge than dealing with apple's poor curation.Easy fix. Use Apple Music.
Lately not even "functional" lol. I mean look at Airdrop, we have tons of Apple gadgets and it is so unreliable its hilarious, one day it works the next doesn't, completely random without even touching settings.
Ohhh, I hadn't put it together that it was Spotify that was trashing my battery life. Now that I think about it, I played some music last night and my battery just plummeted. Yeesh.
That's OK, we get 30% back from every watt consumed thanks to Tim.
I actually have been recording mine for 5 days now. Just exported the file and it's got a
.ndjson extensionI dropped it into Sublime Text and it's just a lot of entries that look like this:
{"domain":"apresolve.spotify.com","firstTimeStamp":"2021-09-21T17:22:41.460-04:00","context":"","timeStamp":"2021-09-27T09:36:46.905-04:00","domainType":2,"initiatedType":"AppInitiated","hits":69,"type":"networkActivity","domainOwner":"","bundleID":"com.spotify.client"}I wonder if there's an app out there that would help parse it better?
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Also to people who bash Spotify... The Apple Music experience is pretty shocking.
The only two benefits that I can see to it, is that if you have an iTunes library with me already, it integrates and secondly you can use multi speaker airplay.
Other than that the Spotify interface is miles ahead, things like being able to control your Spotify listening on your phone from your laptop, or vice versa easily (I know you can use the remote app to control iTunes, but this only works for your own music, and you can't do it the other way around), collaborative playlists including allowing multiple people to queue songs at a party, integration with last.fm and Spotify's curation is better.
Personally I buy all my music on CD and listen in iTunes. I then use Spotify's free tier for music discovery before I go out and buy an album.
The only two benefits that I can see to it, is that if you have an iTunes library with me already, it integrates and secondly you can use multi speaker airplay.
Other than that the Spotify interface is miles ahead, things like being able to control your Spotify listening on your phone from your laptop, or vice versa easily (I know you can use the remote app to control iTunes, but this only works for your own music, and you can't do it the other way around), collaborative playlists including allowing multiple people to queue songs at a party, integration with last.fm and Spotify's curation is better.
Personally I buy all my music on CD and listen in iTunes. I then use Spotify's free tier for music discovery before I go out and buy an album.
I don't use Spotify and don't have the .app installed. However, since updating to iOS 15 on my iPhone 8 I have noticed that my battery does seem to be lasting less time between charges and Battery Health Maximum Capacity has gone from 99% to 97% in the space of two days after the update.
Perhaps there is a bug in iOS 15 that needs fixing?
Perhaps there is a bug in iOS 15 that needs fixing?
I think after the 7 days you'll see a graphical representation of the logs, whether the camera and mic were accessed, what domains an app contacted, if an app looked at your Contacts, lots of interesting things.
Apple has some documentation here albeit, it's a bit technical.
Inspecting app activity data | Apple Developer Documentation
Verify that your app accesses only the user data and network resources that you expect it to access.
Ohhh! This makes sense. I was doing a few things on my phone last night while practising piano. I noticed it getting warm while doing nothing that would usually cause it (looking up chords, listening to reference tracks in Spotify.)
Looks like the culprit has been found.
Looks like the culprit has been found.
Very cool -- I'll wait for that report, versus teaching myself how to parse .json files
Thanks!Here is a source, but you could have found it by googling like I did, instead of accusing me of lying until I prove myself innocent. https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/f...kcPXnorOuftOBbtJ2yQF0nVW87lZIECYDXhM8GOwgdC82
Here is a source, but you could have found it by googling like I did and this showed at the top: https://techcrunch.com/2015/10/22/f...kcPXnorOuftOBbtJ2yQF0nVW87lZIECYDXhM8GOwgdC82
I just received 6 months free with the purchase of my new iPhone 13!Easy fix. Use Apple Music.
Maybe instead of "free" you've payed for it with the phone already.
If you read the article then Facebook admits to it. I was being accused of making the whole thing up. But, you can google more stories about it. How many links will you need to believe the story?
I have had this issue with Spotify sporadically since 2018 myself. Certain Spotify updates will drain the battery beyond any reasonable amount. And then the next one fixes it. And so it goes back and forth lol.
i tried using apple music and i gave up. How the interface has stayed in the 2008 ipod touch era, i cannot imagine.
i tried using apple music and i gave up. How the interface has stayed in the 2008 ipod touch era, i cannot imagine.
