YouTube Music

[mikki11574]

Anyone else's phone get hot and loose battery power when running YouTube music? I have a Galaxy S23 plus.

[CEParsons]

Streaming music and video is resource-intensive. It isn't surprising that your device would be heating and consuming battery more than usual when doing these activities.

If you are concerned that the heating is excessive, you can perform some basic maintenance on your device.

☆ Follow Samsung’s Best Practices Guide

In particular, clearing device cache is an important practice in order to clean up junk files and keep things running smooth.

See the guide here: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Tips-Tricks/Best-Practices-After-an-Update/ba-p/3200871?src=Shar...

☆ Use Samsung’s Good Guardians

Download Good Guardians and run its various modules. These modules optimize performance and can identify unusual behavior.

Download Good Guardians here: https://apps.samsung.com/appquery/appDetail.as?appId=com.android.samsung.utilityapp

Thermal Guardian monitors your device temp and provides additional tools to help manage device temp.

App Booster re-optimizes your apps. This should be run after an update.

Memory Guardian helps clear up device memory and boost performance.

Hope this helps!