14 DAY TRIAL // Apple rolled out iOS 15 last week, and just as expected, plenty of users rushed to download and install the new operating system on their iPhones.
But as it turns out, doing this wasn’t necessarily a good idea for Spotify users, as their iPhones are now experiencing a massive battery drain apparently caused by the music streaming app.
While at first it wasn’t necessarily clear what was causing the whole thing, so many people blamed the iOS 15 update itself, Spotify has confirmed in a forum post that it’s investigating the problem, acknowledging that a high battery drain could be caused by its app on iOS 14.8 and 15.
“Thanks for your reports about battery drainage while updating from iOS 14.8 to .15 on both firmware versions during the past days. We’ve passed your info on to the relevant team and we can confirm they are currently looking into it,” a Spotify post reads.
No ETA for the full fix just yet
Users have tried all kinds of workarounds, but none of them fixed the high battery drain.
“I have tried disconnecting the WIFI, toggling background app refresh, did the clean reinstall twice, restarted my phone multiple times, offloaded the app and deleted the cache, basically tried every solution mentioned on this website and nothing works. It’s really frustrating. This has been happening for DAYS,” someone says on the official Spotify forum.
The company, however, recommends users to completely reinstall the app from scratch, and if this doesn’t make any difference, to just try to disable Background App Refresh in the iPhone settings screen.
On the other hand, there’s no ETA as to when a full fix could ship, but given Spotify has already started the work on it, the release should take place any day now, especially as the bug seems to be quite widespread right now.