It’s been long rumored that Facebook is a major drain on performance and battery life, and it’s not hard to find Android bloggers describing how a deletion of the app made their phone run faster and last longer, but is the effect real, or just a mistaken intuition?
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Interestingly, he offers an alternative and although it’s not quite as handy as the app itself, it will allow you to use the social media site without draining your battery.
In October past year, Facebook’s iOS app similarly came under fire for sapping battery life, but Facebook issued a fix for the problem. But as is becoming increasingly more apparent as Facebook adds more features to its already bloated app, the downside is that we all pay in the form of reduced battery life.
Unfortunately, so far this has only been tested on Android phones, so if you’re an iPhone user, this may or may not work for you – however, it’s to be expected that the less time you’re spending on Facebook, the more beneficial it will be on your battery life.
So uninstalling the Facebook app can certainly save battery but it may come off as a huge inconvenience to the users.
Facebook is looking into claims that its Android app hogs up to 20 per cent of users’ battery power. So while Facebook didn’t look like it was using that much power, it was actually just being displayed elsewhere in Android’s statistics.
In a post on his personal page, Facebook’s engineering manager Ari Grant wrote: “The first issue we found was a ‘CPU spin” in our network code.
But it seems like their efforts are not enough and they have been unable to really sort out the issues that their Facebook app for Android continuously encounter.
The tests involved launching 15 popular apps in succession with the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps installed on the phone, and then deleting the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps and launching the 15 apps again.
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On their research, Russel’s team discovered that, on uninstalling Facebook and Facebook Messenger App, The remaining apps on the smartphone launched 15% faster.
