Facebook app timber battery from your phone – Nordlys

Facebook admits mistakes, but claims it is fixed.

In recent weeks, a number of users, bloggers and news websites reported that Facebook’s app for iOS deplete battery power.

In extreme cases, the app sucked out over 70 percent of the battery’s power, writes Manager.

Facebooks Development, Ari Grant, writes that Facebook should have identified the problem, which was linked to the silent background video and allow the application without reason sent more or less continuous requests to the phone’s processor.

Grant comparing it all with having a child in the backseat who incessantly wondering when the drive is over.

– Fixed error

Facebook claims has corrected the error and updated app. A new version was available in the App Store on October 23, 2015 that should have come to grips with the problems.

page3 has monitored power usage for Facebook’s app on an iPhone 6S the past seven days. And despite the update we have not noticed any appreciable difference. We have never experienced such an extreme power that Andreia Geita reports on Twitter, but on this phone is Facebook’s app still the app that steals most battery power compared to the time we spend on the app.

In all cases, power consumption must not be linked position history function, as has been speculated.

To turn it off

As it is evident from the screenshots in this article, the background update Facebook app doing, contributing to the large power consumption.

This can easily turn off the “Settings” on your iPhone:

1. Open “Settings” on iPhone
2. Go to the “General”
3. Select “Background Updating”
4. Turn off background update by flipping the switch for Facebook

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