Insanely high battery impact and usage

[bigmanmuffin]

Plan

Premium

Country

Denmark

Device

MacBook Air 2023

Operating System

macOS 14

My Question or Issue

Recently I've began noticing an issue with the battery impact and usage of Spotify. Sometimes when using the app it'll randomly shoot up to like 300 energy impact and at times like 4000 power usage the last 12 hours and my device runs hot. I've spoken to Spotify Support, reinstalled and cleaned the cache but to no avail.

[bigmanmuffin]

Hey folks,

Thanks for the info!

Can you expand the activity monitor and send us a screenshot, so we can see which process is doing this and investigate this further? I can see @Jyu mentioned the Spotify Helper's doing this. 

Our tech folks have looked into this and have made some changes, so can you also log out and back in again 2-3 times in a row to ensure everything's synced on your end and then monitor if you see an improvement? 

We'll be on the lookout.

[bigmanmuffin]

Also high CPU usage.

CPU-tid = CPU time

Tråde = Threads

[AlejaR]

Hey @bigmanmuffin,

Thanks for posting in the Community and welcome.

In this case, we'd like to gather some additional info about this behavior so we can investigate further. Did you notice if this started to happen after a specific event such as an OS update? If yes, please send us the details.

On another note, and just to confirm, is this happening when streaming music on other apps? If not sure, it’d be awesome if you could check.

Lastly, we'd suggest you take a look at this Apple Community thread, and follow some of the steps suggested there to see if you notice any difference in this behavior.

Keep us in the loop!

[bigmanmuffin]

The problem seems to have fixed itself. Thanks for the reply anyway, @AlejaR!

[bobthesimple]

Over the last few days, I've noticed that Spotify has been the highest energy-impacting process (over the last 12 hours). So much so that in the morning when I open my laptop it is warm. This is not only an issue I have started experiencing recently, maybe about a week ago.

I've reinstalled the latest ARM version but the problem persists. I'm using a M1 MBP running macOS 14.3 (23D56) and Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon) 1.2.31.1205.g4d59ad7c.

[Babalu]

Hello,

Can you please give priority to this problem?

It seems that after some time of use the app goes crazy and burn the battery in a few hours.

This is important! It's not only blocking our work but also damages the battery!

For comparison: in the screenshot spotify is using almost 3x chrome. when chrome is been used heavily for development in this time frame.

[Eni]

Hey there @Babalu, 

Thanks for getting in touch about this and welcome to the Community. 

Could you send us the info @AlejaR asked for previously? We'll take a closer look. 

Keep us posted.

[aic719]

I'm having this issue too, the app is draining a ton of battery more than the apps and tools that I am actually interacting with, even when the Spotify app is just sitting in the background and not playing anything (may even be a wake lock, hard to tell).

Spotify Helper (Renderer) seems to be consuming the most power. 

I think the problem may have coincided with my upgrade to the latest 15.2 public beta. 

[aic719]

Just realised that this post is rather out of date. Will be helpful if you guys could help still. 

[evandl]

Two week old Macbook Pro M4 Pro had battery drained by 60% in two hours by the Spotify app

[evandl]

Will never use this desktop app again - damaging god knows how many users batteries

[aic719]

Technically, this is a new issue, I haven't had this before. But yeah, this has forced me back to Apple Music until this is fixed. 

For reference, I run it on an M1 Air.

[aic719]

I've also reinstalled the app and restarted a bunch of times, it did not resolve the issue.

[aakrukover]

I am also having the same issue, photo below shows Spotify energy usage even though I haven't listened to Spotify on my laptop in the last 12 hours. MacBook Air (running Sonoma 14.4.1) was charging overnight and in the last 3 hours battery has gone from 100% to 35% because of spotify background energy usage.

[dupatrupa]

I can see the same - Spotify eats 50% - 100% CPU core, both in the Mac stand-alone app and on the webpage version, even when it does not play anything.

[Vasil]

Hey folks!

Thank you for the shared info, this is on our radar 🙂
For anyone who hasn't done so, please share with us your app versions as well.

For anyone new here - let us know the app version, your device model and its OS version. Many thanks!

[Jyu]

Hello, I am currently also experiencing the same issue. 2022 M2 MBP with Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon)
1.2.52.442.g01893f92. Issue also happens when I play it from the desktop version. This has only happened to me recently (about a week), never happened before. Spotify Helper (Renderer) uses about 50% %CPU and it drains my battery very quickly.

[sjorske]

Same issue here,running Spotify voor macOS (Apple Silicon) 1.2.51.345.gcc39d911

MacOS version 15.1.1 (24B91)

MacBook Air 2020 M1

Battery consumption in last 12 hrs was 1.698,29

note : updated Spotify to 1.2.52.442.g01893f92 yesterday evening

[Dessi]

Hey folks,

Thanks for the info!

Can you expand the activity monitor and send us a screenshot, so we can see which process is doing this and investigate this further? I can see @Jyu mentioned the Spotify Helper's doing this. 

Our tech folks have looked into this and have made some changes, so can you also log out and back in again 2-3 times in a row to ensure everything's synced on your end and then monitor if you see an improvement? 

We'll be on the lookout.

[dcaspi]

Second time this week that I wake up to a Mac with an empty battery and see that Spotify has been using a significant amount of energy over night.

I killed it by now, but I believe I saw that `Spotify Helper (Renderer)` process used a lot of energy before I killed the app.

M1 MacBook Pro

Sequoia 15.1.1 (24B91)

Spotify for macOS (Apple Silicon)
1.2.52.442.g01893f92