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iPhone Battery Drain After Latest Update

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July 23, 2024
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Delighted to get my system back working after the latest update(s), however …

It’s eating my iPhone battery. 87% over 13hrs background activity today and I’ve not even played any music. This is not right, surely.

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Pinned Reply By Rhonny

There is a new SONOS APP UPDATE just gone live - for iOS it’s version 80.05.05 (not sure if there is an update for Android as the release notes are yet to go live).

iOS App Store says:

Improves stability when adding new products
Addresses excess battery usage.

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GenAckbar73

Lyricist III

I have exactly same problem. Very high battery drain on my iPhone since last app update.

There is also a thread on this at reddit:

https://new.reddit.com/r/sonos/comments/1eai1rw/has_the_sonos_app_been_draining_anyone_elses/#09

SONOS please fix this ASAP!

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ColinRS

Lyricist III

Same problem. Sonos app has taken half my battery overnight and that was all background activity. Sonos really need to look at their software release process

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GenAckbar73

Lyricist III

This is so embarrassing after all the software issues that they had recently...

Iain59

Collaborator II

Same here, Sonos app using twice as much battery in the background not playing as Apple Music is streaming over Airplay!

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

iPhone settings - Sonos - Background App Refresh - OFF.

I believe this is now helping the battery drain on my iPhone. (The Sonos app doesn't need to refresh in the background.)

Credit to @press250 for the tip...

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ploppyAuthor

Avid Contributor I

iPhone settings - Sonos - Background App Refresh - OFF.

I believe this is now helping the battery drain on my iPhone. (The Sonos app doesn't need to update in the background.)

Strangely though, my Background App Refresh is OFF and always has been. I read somewhere about there being a difference between background refresh and background activity, which TBH I didn’t fully understand.

I resorted to signing out of my sonos account and force quitting the app. That certainly solves the problem but would be a proper pain to have to do every time you’ve finished playing music.

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Rhonny

Prodigy III

iPhone settings - Sonos - Background App Refresh - OFF.

I believe this is now helping the battery drain on my iPhone. (The Sonos app doesn't need to update in the background.)

Strangely though, my Background App Refresh is OFF and always has been. I read somewhere about there being a difference between background refresh and background activity, which TBH I didn’t fully understand.

I resorted to signing out of my sonos account and force quitting the app. That certainly solves the problem but would be a proper pain to have to do every time you’ve finished playing music.

I have seen a drop in usage, but maybe after 24 hours I’ll find it’s not as drastic as I’d been hoping. There has been enough noise about this issue so I’d imagine Sonos will ‘stick it on the list’… (I’d hate to see that list - I’d never want to go to work if I was a Sonos coder.)

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Marc_50

Collaborator II

Just as a datapoint: I am seeing a huge battery drain on an Ipad Pro caused by the Sonos app. My iPhone is fine though.

Ken_Griffiths

Just as a datapoint: I am seeing a huge battery drain on an Ipad Pro caused by the Sonos app. My iPhone is fine though.

The Sonos App is in the top 3 on my iPad Pro (3rd Gen) battery settings, which is my goto Sonos controller for my Home setup, but not showing too much drain, all things considered, over the last 24 hours.

However things are certainly worth monitoring/investigating as every little helps. - I’ll switch the Apps background refresh off too, as I don’t really see the point in it - it can refresh whenever things come back into focus on screen.

It’s about on-par with the iOS Mail App in my use-case and the same can usually be said for my iPhone XR controller device too (approx. or thereabouts).

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Badgercop

Enthusiast II

Same here massive battery drain on latest iOS app. I’ve used the app for about 10 minutes today, normally my iPhone battery would be at about 85% at this point in the day.

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