Uninstalling Facebook on Android will save up to 20% of battery life

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Facebook does not have the greatest track record with its Android app. Users have long complained about performance issues and it sucking up battery and last year Facebook’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, took the unusual step of making his staff ditch their iPhones and move to Android until they sorted out the issues. But the problems have remained, and recently they led the Android blogger Russell Holly to dump the app, starting a chain reaction which revealed something rather interesting about the app’s performance.
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It's amazing to see that facebook is such a resource-hungry app on Android smartphones...
 
I believe it, no doubt it makes a lot of signals to the FB database. I notice that just using any browser on my phone eats up the battery as well.
 
I use Facebook Messenger and Facebook on my Nvidia Shield tablet. I don't really notice slowdown problems on my tablet when Facebook apps are installed.

I think slowdowns are not noticeable or barely noticeable on faster Android smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S6 or faster tablets like the Nvidia Shield tablet.

I wonder if Facebook using a lot of resources is mostly affecting slower and older mobile devices with CPUs made by Chinese companies like MediaTek, Rockchip, etc which sometimes releases cheap CPUs which run slower and can be less reliable than CPUs made by Qualcomm, Nvidia, Samsung, and Intel.

Some Google Android devices and custom ROMs from manufactures from Samsung also have poor RAM management settings, or not enough physical RAM which can affect its performance.
 
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This also applies to iPhones as well! I uninstalled Facebook early on, noticed a huge change in battery life, and now only use Safari for "Facebook needs."
 
alakazam said:
The facebook chat is free, unlike text messaging. And it allows group chats too, if I'm not mistaken.
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There is Group chat in Facebook Chat according to https://www.facebook.com/help/249596111818806

I also like that there is now voice chat, and video chat in Facebook Messenger, and it is a free service.

Facebook Chat also works on most non-cell phone devices like tablets, desktop and laptop computers, smartwatches, and some MP3 Players like the iPod Touch, so if you can no longer afford cell phone or regular phone service, you can still contact your friends on Facebook when connected to the internet with Wi-Fi, the library or school internet, or your own internet service.
 
Good to know ... thanks!

Archer said:
Facebook is a waste of time and energy in every sense of the word
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I agree to a certain extend. Livechatting with friends and seeing some pictures of information is at least decent. However, the random weird drama that is going on all the time, I mostly ignore.
 
Many apps do this and don´t care, the same with PCs. They do all types of extra stuff to make their program appear faster and more responsive without a care of how much it affects your computers performance because the vast majority of people do not have the technical knowledge to understand it is an app that is causing the problem. The majority of people who install facebook will just think their battery is getting older or it is a problem with the phone... not actually consider that facebook is running a ton of stuff all the time just to give the appearance that it is faster.
 
There is no reason that one app should take up so much. My guess is that the app takes up so much battery power because it is so interconnected in everything that you do online. We all know that Facebook has that intrusive nature. Maybe if they ditched all the covert information retrieving, it would work right alongside everything else.
 
Facebook and messenger really drain the battery fast because they stay opened in the background and you can't close them.I use them a lot so I didn't consider about it untill now
 
Personally I don't use Facebook on my phone but my mom does and with the amount of notifications that she constantly gets, I believe it. She has to charge her phone every night. But, of course, for people that use Facebook a ton they won't care about the effects on battery life because it isn't worth getting rid of the app for them.
 
I used to have an Android phone about five months ago and I can definitely agree with this, it wasn't the best app to have there, in my personal experience, my phone used to glitch a lot when I used it, it got kind of slow and of course, the battery was a problem.
I'm really looking forward to see if they can actually fix this problem soon, I don't think that this issue is something good for android itself.
 
Do you know if it's the same for IOS? I have an iPhone 4s, and I think I saw something about Facebook for it a while again. Facebook is just a really energy hungry app, I wonder if it also affects the messenger app? I feel like Facebook is getting worse and worse with quality everyday, so I'm not surprised.
 
All apps though are going to consume a portion of your battery and eat away at the RAM, and it's ust one of those things you'll have to learn to live with if you use Facebook. The bigger the app, the more resources it will use and Facebook is known for being a monster of an app and always has been.

Apps are there primarily though to make your life easier, and you could say the same about all of them. You could delete every app off your phone or tablet and have near perfect battery life and use hardly any memory, but if you do that, is there any point in having a smartphone then in the first place?
 
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