iPhones running iOS 15 have a battery problem — and Spotify may be the culprit

Desember 31, 2021 Posting Komentar

iPhones running iOS 15 make a shelling problem — and Spotify may be the perpetrator

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Spotify has now acknowledged that its music flowing app app may be causing a significant battery drain and overheating connected iPhones moving on OS 15, favorable a series of complaints coming from the users.

In a financial statement, the caller says it's passed the issue onto its technical iOS team for further investigation, though there's no set date yet for when a fix would be available. But we're shot Spotify could fork up such a fix through a microcode update or troubleshooting steps. Meanwhile, users that are experiencing similar issues are asked to detent on the "+Balloting" and "Subscribe" buttons to be notified of whatever developments.

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The newly released iOS 15 features a slew of substantial upgrades, including a virgin notifications formatting, Live Text and more. All the same, to a number of users, so much upgrades are approaching at a price. Some have reported that the new software update has on the face of it messed with the opposite devices, such as the Orchard apple tree Watch and the AirPods.

And IT appears that the iOS 15 is also affecting fractional-party applications as well, one of which is Spotify. The euphony streaming table service seemingly drains near 30% of your iPhone's battery per hour, which means that running the app for around 3 hours could leave the phone without any power. Spotify also acknowledged that much users might be experiencing overheating issues excessively, though there's nobelium estimate along the exact temperatures provided.

"I have to delete Spotify atomic number 3 my iPhone11 is dangerously hot and feels like it leave either melt or explode," one user joint in a Spotify thread.

From what we can tell from the comments under the thread, a number of users are now looking to cancel their premium subscription and even considering to possibly act up to Spotify's rival app, Apple Music. Cardinal user has compared the battery debilitate plac and shared the following:

"My Phone still chewing through 30-40% battery each hour if using Spotify.
Apple Podcast app industrial plant fine. 3% drain / hour."

We're unable to confirm whether the above figures are so accurate as we haven't done any benchmarking ourselves. Heedless, it seems to beryllium quite an excessive battery waste pipe.

In a support comment, Spotify Moderator has suggested that users flow from "a clean reinstall" and see if the exit persists.

For this, you need to unsealed Spotify and access the app's stage setting. From there, tap on Storage and select Delete Cache. You would then open your iPhone Settings, tap happening General and select iPhone Storage followed by Spotify. From there, you buttocks unload the app by tapping on Delete App. Afterwards you restart your phone, just install Spotify again, though be aware that following these steps won't guarantee an instant posit.

If you haven't installed iOS 15 just now yet, make sure to accept a look at our iOS 15 page, in which we've covered all of the new features and well-tried the software update ourselves.

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