How to Fix Spotify Battery Drian on iOS/Android

I recently became a Spotify Premium member. I love the service, and I use the downloading playlists feature to avoid having to be constantly connected to a network and therefore save battery, but have noticed that any usage of Spotify, even while listening to downloaded music in offline mode while my phone is in airplane mode causes the battery to die very quickly. 1% of drain per minute is the average, I would expect this behavior while streaming high definition video; not while listening to downloaded music.

Many users are experiencing battery draining issue with Spotify on their device, and most of the users can find a fix to solve the problem. This is not a good news for those who listen to Spotify on a daily basis. And the Spotify team on the Community either avoid to answer the questions about this issue or giving some old solutions that used to be solve other issues.

So in the following parts, I'm going to show you how to fix Spotify draining battery issue with some common solution and an ultimate guide to solve the problem forever.

Part 1. Spotify Battery Drain - Checklist & Fixes

Why does Spotify drain battery on your device? Well, it depends. The reason may come out of your phone or the Spotify app. So let's troubleshoot them separately.

1. Restart Your Phone

Your phone can't always run on maximum performance without switching off for a while. Just turn your phone off a bit and reboot it, magic may happen.

2. Check Your Phone Battery Usage

Before you try to solve the problem on Spotify, you'd better check out if your phone battery is in good standing.

1. Go to Settings > Battery & Performance > Battery Usage Stats.

2. See how the apps on your phone are consuming your phone battery. If there're other apps that are using a lot of battery on your phone, you can turn it off and don't let it run in the background.

3. Check Your Phone Battery Life

The easiest way to check how much of the battery still remain on your phone is to observe the charging time. If the phone charges much faster than before to finish, then the battery might not have much left. You can consider changing your phone battery on the local store.

If your phone battery is still okay, the problem may come from the Spotify app. And here're some of the solutions to keep Spotify from draining battery.

1. Reinstall the Spotify App

If you're using Spotify for quite a long time and have never updated the app to the latest version, the app is going to be a battery hog. You can delete the app first and go to the app store to install the latest version of Spotify, or directly update your Spotify to the latest one.

2. Delete Downloaded Files

If you have downloaded a large library of songs on Spotify, each time you run Spotify, these songs may be running too. So you can delete them and see if the battery consumption goes back to normal.

3. Turn Off Spotify Connect

This may sound disappointing, but the Spotify Connect feature will drain more battery than normal and the only way to fix it is to turn it off.

Part 2. How to Fix Spotify Battery Drain on iOS

With iOS, it's simple to check the proportion of your battery used by each app, including the Spotify app. You need to make sure the device is not charging.

Update Devices Software to Fix Spotify Batter Drain on iOS

For starters, you should always need to make sure your device is using the latest version.

Method 1: Update the device and app

You're recommended to make sure the device is up-to-date.

To update the iOS device, go to Settings > General > Software Update.

To update the Spotify app, go to App Store > Search > "Spotify" > Update.

Adjust Settings to Fix Spotify Battery Drain on iOS

With iOS, you're able to adjust settings to fix Spotify battery drain on your device.

Method 1: Dim the screen or turn on Auto-Brightness

To dim the screen, swipe down from the upper of the screen to open Control Center and drag the Brightness slider to the bottom.

To turn on Auto-Brightness, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size, then turn on Auto-Brightness.

Method 2: Switch to Wi-Fi Connection

You're recommended to use a Wi-Fi connection to stream music online because a Wi-Fi connection uses less power than a cellular network. It's best to use Wi-Fi instead of mobile data.

To turn on Wi-Fi, go to Settings > Wi-Fi to access a Wi-Fi network.

Method 3: Turn off Background App Refresh

You are also suggested to turn off the features that allows apps to refresh in the background.

To turn off Background App Refresh, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and select Wi-Fi, Wi-Fi & Cellular Data, or Off to turn off Background App Refresh. Back to Background App Refresh, see Spotify with its permission setting, select off on the on/off switch.

Method 4: Turn off Location and Background Location

Location and Background Location indicates that the app is using location services.

To turn off Location Services for the app, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services. If you see Spotify with its permission setting, select off on the on/off switch.

Method 5. Turn off Home & Lock Screen

Home & Lock Screen setting indicates that the Home screen or Local screen was displayed on your device. For example, the Spotify app frequently wakes your display with notification. You can also choose to disable the display setting of the Spotify app.

To turn off push notifications for the app, go to Settings > Notifications. Tap on Spotify and set Allow Notifications to Off.

To turn off display setting in the app, go to Settings > Display. You'll see several options like "Show announcements about releases”, select off for display options entirely.

Part 3. How to Fix Spotify Battery Drain on Android

There're 2 more methods that help to fix Spotify battery drain on your Android device.

Update Devices Software to Fix Spotify Batter Drain on Android

Method 1: Update the device and app

You're recommended to make sure the device is up-to-date.

To update the Android device, go to Settings > System > System update.

To update the Spotify app, go to Google Play > Search > "Spotify" > Update.

Adjust Settings to Fix Spotify Battery Drain on Android

There're some settings you'll need to enable to fix Spotify battery drain on the Android device.

Method 1: Turn on adaptive battery for the app

If you don't keep adaptive battery on, the Spotify app less often will run less while you're not using it.

To turn on adaptive battery for the app, go to Settings > Battery > Adaptative preferences > Adaptive Battery.

Method 2: Turn on battery optimization for the app

If you turn off battery optimization for the Spotify app, the Spotify app can run more while you're not using it, even when adaptive battery is on.

To turn on battery optimization for the app, go to Settings > Apps > See all apps > Spotify > Battery > Manage battery usage > Optimized.

Bonus Tips: How to Fix Spotify Battery Draining Issue Forever

All the fixes above have been proved to be the most eligible way to fix Spotify battery usage issue. But if you still can't fix the problem, here's the final tip to solve it permanently.

All you have to do is to download Spotify songs with ViWizard Spotify Music Converter on your computer, then you can transfer all the downloaded songs to your phone with a USB cable. After that you can play Spotfy songs with the built-in player offline without the Spotify app, so there'll be no battery draining issue anymore.

ViWizard Spotify Music Converter is designed to convert Spotify audio files into 6 different formats such as MP3, AAC, M4A, M4B, WAV and FLAC. Almost 100% of the original song quality will be kept after converting process. With 5X faster speed, it only takes few seconds to download each song from Spotify.

 

1Launch ViWizard and Import Songs from Spotify

Open ViWizard software and the Spotify will be launched simultaneously. Then drag and drop tracks from Spotify into the ViWizard interface.

2 Set Up Output Parameters

After adding music tracks from Spotify to ViWizard, you can choose the output audio format. There're six options including MP3, M4A, M4B, AAC, WAV and FLAC. And then you can adjust the audio quality by selecting the output channel, bit rate, and sample rate.

3 Start the Conversion

Once all the setting is finished, click the "Convert" button to start loading Spotify music tracks. After the conversion, all the files will be saved to your specified folder. You could browse all the converted songs by clicking "Converted" and navigate to the output folder.

4Play All the Spotify Songs on Your Phone Offline

After downloading Spotify songs to your computer, you can now transfer them to your phone or other devices. All these songs can be played on any media player without using the Spotify app.