Battery issues have always troubled smartphone users and it can be really troublesome at times. Some applications kill more battery than others and it is very important to find out those apps. There are some apps which are used by most users and the Facebook app is a good example. The most popular social networking site has over 1.59 billion users and a good percentage of them access the site from a mobile device. Recently, it was find out that Facebook’s app on the iOS platform drains the most battery and uninstalling it can significantly increase the battery life. It was also discovered that if the site is accessed using the Safari browser, approximately 15% battery life is saved. Resource hogging is simply discouraging when other important apps are already installed on the phone and the amount of battery drain occurring here is huge.
This is a serious matter as battery life is the most important thing for smartphone users and such findings can hurt the popularity of Facebook’s app. If the iPhone’s battery is affected by this app, users will definitely use browsers to use Facebook and they can also leave the messenger app by Facebook. Facebook deals with lots of pictures, videos and notes and uninstalling the app will also result in more free space. The file size of the app is 111Mb and it can consumer over 500MB of memory space with all the cache files stored. Facebook is said to have been looking into this matter and they will try to come up with best possible solution, but if the app removal results is energy gain, users will have no second thoughts about it.
This is not something new as similar incidents have happened before and the company tried to fix those problems. In the month of October, 2015, a new iOS update was released which focused on fixing the battery drain issues. More so, of the app ran as a background process, the battery drain was inevitable. It is a problem which has persisted for a long time now and this time Facebook might have to take a few extra steps to solve it completely.
