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  • These Apps Are Chowing Your Phone’s Battery

    31 May 2021 by Tayla in Facebook, Instagram, Lifestyle, Social, Tech/Sci, Vibe
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    We’ve come to depend on our phones for so many things.

    Think about it – a world in which there’s not an app for everything and people can’t be told where to go or what to think at a moment’s notice is almost unimaginable.

    Don’t think about it too hard, though.

    This is why it is critical for us to consider how to keep our phone batteries at a decent, functioning percentage.

    Apps are terribly demanding and are the biggest drainers of our phone batteries.

    Via MyBroadband, a cloud storage service called pCloud assessed 100 of the world’s most popular apps and examined three factors to find out exactly what apps demand the most power:

    • Which built-in functions each app ran in the background – like locations or camera
    • The percentage of battery each app used
    • Whether the app supported dark mode

    Fitbit, Uber, Skype, and Facebook are some of the biggest killers of your smartphone battery:

    Image: pCloud

    pCloud has more:

    Fitbit and Verizon came out on top as the ultimate phone killers.

    Both apps permit 14 out of the 16 available features to run in the background, specifically including the four most demanding: the camera, location, microphone and Wifi connection.

    This earned these apps the highest score in the study – 92,31%.

    Furthermore, you might want to make Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat notification free if you hope to keep your battery going throughout the day because, predictably, social media apps make up six out of the 20 most demanding apps on your phone battery.

    This is because on average, these apps enable 11 features to run in the background, such as photos, wifi, locations, and the microphone.

    Instagram is less of a killer of your battery, though, as it allows dark mode, which can save up to 30% more battery life. It’s also the reason that Twitter didn’t make the list.

    Facebook is the worst because it continuously asks for permission to access anything from your contacts to your location.

    Dating apps also drain more than just your emotions: Tinder, Bumble, and Grindr make up 15% of the top killer apps, allowing on average 11 features to run in the background.

    Thankfully, there are a few things you can do to keep your battery going for longer:

    • Turn on power-saving mode (although, this does have an effect on your phone’s functionality).
    • Turn off your mobile network services or switch to Airplane Mode (recommended for when you don’t need to use your phone at all).
    •  Turn down the vibration intensity for notifications, alarms, and calls in the sounds and vibration setting.
    • Disable haptic feedback, which stops the vibration when typing on the screen.
    • Carry a power bank or battery case to keep your phone’s battery life going wherever you are.

    Looks like there’s no excuse for “I’m on 1%” anymore.

    [sources:mybroadband&pcloud]

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