“Facebook is one of the most downloaded apps on iOS but it has long been cited as a cause of fast-draining iPhone batteries,” Samuel Gibbs reports for The Guardian. “Last year it was accused of using background tricks to stay active even when it wasn’t being used. Facebook admitted bugs existed, and fixed them, but questions of the app’s impact on battery life remained.”
“Similar concerns about Facebook’s Android app led to the discovery that deleting the app saves up to 20% of a phone’s battery,” Gibbs reports. “After that revelation, I set about seeing if the same was true for iPhone users. I discovered that uninstalling Facebook’s iOS app and switching to Safari can save up to 15% of iPhone battery life.”
“I had also saved space, because at the point I had deleted the Facebook app it had consumed around 500MB in total combining the 111MB of the app itself and its cache on the iPhone,” Gibbs reports. “To make sure that this wasn’t an isolated incident, I also recruited several other Facebook-using iPhone owners to conduct a similar test. They all found similar results…”
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MacDailyNews Take: So, if you’re using the Facebook app frequently, stop blaming your iPhone’s battery and start using Safari to visit Facebook instead.
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