Guess Which App Is Killing Your Phone’s Battery Life

“We have heard reports of a few people experiencing battery issues with our iOS app“, the social media giant said in a statement to TechCrunch.

With background app refresh and autoplay videos disabled the Facebook iOS app used 7 per cent of battery resource on his iPhone 6s over a 24 hour period.

The impact on you: If “soon” is not soon enough, you may want to consider uninstalling the iOS app until Facebook fixes the battery-draining issue.

When your battery falls to 20 percent, a notification prompts you to enable Low Power Mode, a setting that conserves your precious charge by disabling non-essential tasks such as visual effects, automatic downloads and background activity.

If you are having issues with the Facebook app draining your battery, there is something that you can do now. “They’re letting down each and every one of their customers by letting such an issue remain in their app. Battery drain should be a priority, not an afterthought”. Facebook updates its app frequently, but has a awful habit of not disclosing what those updates contain in the App Store’s update notes-users generally have no way of knowing if any single update will make things better or worse until after they’ve installed it.

If your iPhone’s battery life has been slipping at a higher rate than usual, it might be Facebook’s fault.

Federico Viticci, editor of the blog Mac Stories, suggested the Facebook app was using far too much energy, sapping vastly more juice than rival apps.

“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 speculated.

“It should become a Facebook priority to address this”, he roared.

You can check Facebook’s background usage settings by going to Settings Facebook Settings Background App Refresh.

The Paper app from Facebook doesn’t perform the same tomfoolery, and it’s a refreshing change to what the Facebook mobile feed has turned into anyway.