If you’re constantly charging your smartphone, the Facebook mobile app might be the culprit.
Jonathon Coile works at Phone Doctors in Fort Smith. He said features like location services within apps drain batteries the fastest.
“That’s constantly using battery and data to pull your GPS in, and a lot of people don’t know that,” Coile said.
Facebook uses location services to allow you to check in at places. Location services can be managed on iPhones and Androids in settings, but Coile said you have to completely close out of the app to keep it from running in the background.
“Even if you go out of the app, you still have to double click and swipe up to turn the app off,” Coile said.
Facebook said nearly one billion people check Facebook on their phone daily, and Coile said usage is what it all boils down to.
“I do notice that whenever I am on Facebook it does tend to run down quicker,” Facebook user, Jordan Cleveland, said.
In a recent story, CBS NEWS cites a study done by The Guardian. The daily newspaper put it to the test and deleted the Facebook app from an iPhone and an Android for a week.
They found it saved 15% of battery life in the iPhone and 20% in the Android, but Cleveland said having the app on her phone is too convenient to delete it.
“I might not use it as much, you know, just knowing that it’s going to take my battery just not use it,” Cleveland said.
Coile said if you’re worried Facebook is draining your battery, the best thing to do is check in your settings to see how much data and battery the app is using, but he also recommends cutting back on the time you spend using the app.
“People complain about battery life, but you’ve got to realize that they’re small computers that are in your hand, and they need to be powered just like everything else does,” Coile said.
In The Guardian’s experiment, when they deleted the Facebook app, they left the Messenger app installed and still logged into Facebook through the Safari browser.
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