The One App That Ruins Your Android Battery Life—Even When You’re Not Using It!

Background Activity

These apps run processes in the background, so even when you aren’t using your phone, they can be the cause of much battery loss. They run background processes in order to sync your data, including messages, notifications, new posts, and more. Both of the apps also send push notifications to send you alerts about what your friends have posted and to alert you to direct messages. Both apps often use location services to tag your posts, and this takes up a lot of battery power.

Resource-Heavy

Resource-heavy apps, like Facebook and Facebook Messenger, use more processing power to load images and videos and provide interactive features such as stories. These apps also use up significant amounts of RAM and this increases the more often you use the apps.

How to Reduce Battery Drain

The ultimate way of reducing battery drainage is to delete Facebook and Facebook Messenger. Since most people won’t be eager to do that, alternative things you can do include limiting background activity by going to Settings > Apps > Facebook > Battery and disabling background activity. You can turn off push notifications at Settings > Notifications. And you can disable Location Services, which is also wise for your privacy, by heading to Settings > Apps > Facebook/Messenger > Permissions > Location.