Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
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Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
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Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
#2I removed the Facebook Android app because everytime I opened it it used 1MB of data.
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#3I totally agree with this. I have been doing tests with Facebook's iOS app installed/uninstalled for month and without FB app, the battery is in much more better state during the day. I haven't done some crazy analysis, but noticed that removing the FB app increase my battery life for rough ~30%. I only use Safari to access the FB and I'm super happy about that. I spent less time on FB and have more battery. I highly recommend this approach to all my friends complaining about battery
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#4I did notice recently that if you launch Facebook and put your ear to the bottom of your iPhone you can hear that the audio is on (white noise like when turning volume way up on a stereo that isn't playing.
Just now I confirmed that's happening and then home-screened to bail out, and after a second or two the white noise stops. Seems like it should be pretty easy to do similar experiments aimed at proving the OP's hypothesis.
[Edit: I tried the same experiment after playing videos, etc. Speaker still sounds like it loses power after bouncing back to the home screen... so while there might be games being played with regard to the app's activity and battery usage... I'm not really compelled by the specific hypothesis put forth in this article as to how]
[Edit: Of course, still begs the question "Why is the speaker getting power at all?". I haven't found other apps that appear to do this.]
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#5I'm not saying this to start a war, but I don't use an iPhone. I use an Android phone. I have found the Facebook Lite app on Android to use virtually no battery when idle. I know that this app was pretty much designed for low power phones.
It's odd that on the one hand, they are thinking about low powered phones and using less data while on the other hand, as with iOS, they aren't.
Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
#6I removed the Facebook Android app because everytime I opened it it used 1MB of data.
Try Facebook Lite. It's designed for low powered phones.
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#7I disabled video autoplay to see if that helps.
It also appears that the Youtube app spends a significant amount of time in background so FB may not be the only one doing something shady.
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#8I have had issues with playing music via Bluetooth (essentially the volume being too low) and research brought me to the Facebook app being open and closing it fixed it. Facebook is definitely doing funky stuff with audio that it should not be doing.
Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
#9I removed the Facebook Android app because everytime I opened it it used 1MB of data.
Try Facebook Lite. It's designed for low powered phones.
And on Android use Tinfoil. It's FB for those of us who just look at it occasionally and don't want it tied into everything we do on the device.
Re: Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App
#10I removed the Facebook Android app because everytime I opened it it used 1MB of data.
I had to remove the Facebook messenger app because it makes my Android phone swap. It's an old one with only 1GB RAM, but still...