The same Reports also show how the social networking app, drains around 7 percent of battery in a 24 hour period, on the iPhone 6s, with the background app refresh feature deactivated. The app reportedly continues to run processes in the background, even for those iPhone users who have disabled the background app refresh.
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Many iPhone users have found that running the Facebook App on their newly updated mobiles, is eating away at the battery life faster.
If your iPhone’s battery life has been slipping at a higher rate than usual, it might be Facebook’s fault. We still don’t know the reason behind this battery drainage problems.
Still, the idea of Facebook tracking you everywhere is bound to be an unsettling one for the more privacy-conscious, and thankfully there’s an easy solution: turn your location settings off for Facebook.
One Reddit user said they had used the Facebook app for 40 minutes, but clocked up background activity worth more than two hours, “costing me nearly a 20 per cent hit to the battery”, despite location services and background app refresh being switched off.
Facebook aren’t forthcoming when it comes to saying why this is happening, but they will get “round to fixing it “soon”, which sounds like ‘when we can be arsed” to Bitterwallet.
While no cause has been established just yet, speculation has suggested silent audio on auto-playing videos continuing to run in the background once the app is closed, may be the culprit. After Battery Usage loads in the lower half of the screen, you will be able to see the percentage of battery power that apps have consumed in either the previous 24-hours or past three days. Thankfully, though, Facebook says it’s looking into the issue.
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Matt Galligan, the CEO and co-founder of Circa, a San Francisco-based startup that develops news apps, recently discovered the link between iOS 9, Facebook’s app and battery depletion.
