I'm not OP, but I've experienced and noticed this for months. I mostly use Pandora while driving and wonder if it could be related to playing via Android Auto. The pattern is that everything is fine, then I drive, and when I stop driving, Pandora seems to continue running in the background with constant battery drain. Restarting my phone or force-stopping the app fixes the drain. It could also be unrelated to Android Auto, though, and this is just the way the app is started for me.
I have Pixel 6 Pro, Verizon, latest patches. (I'll skip specific builds & versions because, as I have noted, this has happened for months!) Pandora v2408.1
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