How to increase the battery life of iPhone and Android? Just delete Facebook
There’s a simple trick applicable in a few moments that increases by 20% the battery life of your smartphone, be it iOS or Android. And it is clear about the official Facebook application.
The battery life of a smartphone is one of the main reasons why choose it instead of other models. To arrive until evening is now the essential feature in the choice, but the more the better. And this applies to every model, whatever the operating system installed. There are power saving modes that make miracles, but this means using the device not to the maximum of its possibilities, and a so-called ” power users ” would never accept compromises in this respect.
But there is one thing that you can do to increase by 15-20% the battery life of a device, and it is simply and trivially clear on the official Facebook application. The social network client by definition would be the responsibility of an abnormal consumption on both iPhone and Android, as revealed AndroidCentral and The Guardian in recent days. It kicked off in this crusade anti-Facebook Russell Holly, blogger for AndroidCentral, and continued the Guardian.
Holly showed the February 1 that once uninstalled Facebook and Facebook Messenger other applications on your smartphone were performed 15% faster. She examined the subject in the Guardian, who wanted to see if together with the loss of performance, there was also a decline in the operational autonomy forehead. The Facebook post, the Guardian an unofficial client had installed called Metal, and had left installed Facebook Messenger.
The result? With Metal set to match the official client editor of the Guardian he had got a +20% on the battery life of its Nexus 6P. Analyzing the Android graphical battery has found that Facebook is far less efficient than other unofficial client, and causes a higher consumption in other sensitive services smartphone. In short, a +20% obtained by uninstalling a single application is certainly not a just stuff.
He commented a Facebook spokesperson: ” We know that some people are experiencing speed problems caused by our Android app. We are considering the issue and we will keep you informed. ” More or less the same thing that they felt users say iOS a few months ago, when in October had been discovered a similar problem on the iPhone. In that case, the company had released an update correcting the ” battery drain ” in a few days.
The problem is that the Guardian has investigated the issue also on iOS, measuring the impact of Facebook application on the iPhone. The same editor, Samuel Gibbs, has performed the same as the normal use of your smartphone tests found that ” uninstalling the application using Safari for iOS and Facebook you can save up to 15% of battery life “. The Guardian journalist has used an iPhone 6S Plus for a week and recorded the consumption from 7.30 to 22.30 every day, first with the Facebook app installed, then no.
He then performed a test to other iPhone owners, who have experienced similar behavior. Uninstalling the app still undergoes some compromises: you cannot use the operating system sharing function to Facebook, and do not work some features specific application, such as Instant Articles. However, the benefits of autonomy on the face are not few, and could be much more noticeable on smaller models of the iPhone, such as 6 or traditional 6S.
In short, the tests are not actually scientific and it is difficult to pull the precise sums. However, there is not so hard to imagine that the Facebook application is due to increased consumption of battery. A Facebook spokesman has promised that the company will investigate in-depth on the problem, but to date the advice of the Guardian is to uninstall the application, especially if you are using massively smartphone and you cannot risk running out of charge remaining before the usual overnight charging.
