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Your phone is absolutely of no use to you unless it can do one important thing: hold its charge. If you’re constantly met with a dwindling battery every time you check your device, the problem could be as simple as deleting one or two apps that are causing most of that battery-draining headache. Some apps are bigger consumers of battery power than others because they work harder and do more for you — and for your entertainment. But you can still enjoy the benefits of these apps without downloading the apps themselves. Tech experts agree: this is the one app you should delete immediately because it zaps your battery.
The Facebook App
Consider this an oldie but a goodie tip: deleting the Facebook app is one of the best ways you can preserve your phone’s battery — and most tech experts you ask will include it right at the tippy top of their list of battery-killing apps.
According to Smith, another problem is that Snapchat also makes use of location services to report the user's current position. “It's a Snapchat feature that you can turn on or off depending on what you want to do with it,” Smith says. “The app, on the other hand, is a camera app with chat and video story elements. It consumes a lot of battery because of this. Unless you are a Snapchat obsessive, you should avoid using Snapchat. You can disable the live location functionality in that scenario. If you don't want.”
For Kane, the solution was to outright delete the Facebook app. But that doesn’t mean you have to delete your Facebook account — there are less taxing ways you can enjoy the social media platform.
“I eventually had to delete the app because I don't want to have to force stop it every time I open it, and I don't like how much disk space it consumes,” Kane says. “I now use the web version of the app rather than the app itself. If you want to keep using the app, consider downloading the lite version instead, and make sure to always force stop the app after each use to avoid draining your battery, and always make sure to free up the cache on a regular basis to avoid clogging your disk space.”
Snapchat
Consider Snapchat the app that doesn’t sleep. Even though the photo and video-sharing app is a ton of fun, and offers a unique way to send messages that will self-destruct in seconds, it’s one of the worst battery hogs out there.
“Snapchat is one of those horrible apps that have no regard for your phone's battery life,” says Jake Smith, Managing Director of Absolute Reg. “The notification service will keep your phone occupied and drain its battery.”
