Facebook confirms that its app eats up the battery of iPhones
Users of the application Facebook well know that it is not the most respectful social network with terminal battery And it is the number of processes carried out such as updating information, loading and playing videos, or browsing through countless pages and publications, it represents an almost abusive use of mobile resources However, in iOS 9 , that is, on iPhone, users have noticed an even more acute drain on the battery Something that the company itself now confirms, and which it tries to solve with the latest update
Thus, one of those responsible for this application, Ari Grant, has published on his own wall Facebook a note commenting on any of these problems found and, effectively confirming that the application is the cause of iPhone battery drain A noteworthy point, but they wanted to resolve and clarify Of course, maybe and as stated in the post, only some of these issues “should” have been fixed with the new update Something users will discover in just a couple of cycles charge from your terminal.
Specifically, Grant claims to have found bugs or small malfunctions inside the app code Facebook for iOSExplains very well the case of a CPU Spin or CPU Spin when compared to a child maddening inside a car asking over and over again “Are we there yet?”. An iterative process that takes care of consume battery power without getting any response or providing useful functionality through the app.
Another problem described in Grant is the behavior of the sound when the application stays open in the background So, as it happens with applications music that continues to play when accesses another application or performs another task on the terminal, Facebook remained activeafter playing one of your videos The difference is that on Facebook the sound stops when it arrives at the end of the video, but forces the application to remain active in the background within the mobile.Again, something that implies a increased battery consumption continuously. Something that has also been resolved in the new update
The curious and explanatory thing about the publication of Ari Grant is that the application does not carry out any type of espionage of the user. Or at least, that this is not the cause of premature exhaustion of the battery on iPhone And it is that Facebook does not eat the stack of the terminals by constantly recording in the background the location of the user The function of location can be deactivated in settings, avoiding leaving continuous record of your location even if the application is inbackground That is why this is not one of the problems that make the application consume so many resources.
In this way, Facebook intones in a certain way a mea culpa , and offers certain solutions to some of these problems. And it is that the person in charge who has confirmed these data is not excessively sure either, using the conditional “should” when talking about solutions In any case, the new version of Facebook for iOS is already in App Store totally free
