However, iPhone users still complain about a massive battery drop, which is believed to be caused by the Facebook app.
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Galligan found the app was responsible for 15% (3.4 hours) of his total battery drain over a seven-day period – more than any other app on his phone.
“My guess is that Facebook is hijacking audio sessions on iOS by keeping silent audio in the background whenever a video plays in the app”, he wrote. Better still, remove the Facebook app from your phone, and perhaps replace it with Paper (US store only).
We’ll be getting in touch with Facebook, and we’ll report back if we hear back from them.
Amongst the new options for the hugely popular social network is a new picture-in-picture mode, which allows playing clips to follow you down the News Feed as you scroll.
Then, just tap on any app in the list, and you’ll be shown how many minutes you’ve been using apps and how long they’ve been running in the background. The app reportedly continues to run processes in the background, even for those iPhone users who have disabled the background app refresh. I suggested turning off Facebook’s background activity, but now it seems like that isn’t enough.
In our earlier article, we gave you five tips and tricks to stretch your iPhone battery life.
The iPhone Facebook app could be draining the life out of millions of people’s batteries, Apple experts have claimed.
The Facebook app for iOS was subject to a lot of criticism recently because of the shear amount of juice it was sucking from your iPhones/iPads.
Galligan further explained that the Facebook iOS app does not “sleep” properly when he exits from it, so it continues to use up battery.
‘So I tried disabling Location Services and Background App Refresh for Facbook’.
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Those affected by the issue might resolve to delete the Facebook app for now, but help is at hand in the near future. Even though mobile browsers like Safari and Chrome tend to take up a few serious resources as well, Galligan found that the Facebook app drained more battery life than Safari.
