I have an iPhone 6S, I got it on Saturday 11/21 and the first thing I did was turn off background refresh for everything, however Facebook is still showing up in the battery with Background activity at 1.1 hours. Is there another option I am missing? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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There's been a few threads about FB and it's battery sucking practices... No solutions yet, that I've seen. Other than removing the app...
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Nope. What's happening is that it's playing a silent sound file in the background in order to keep the app awake. For what purpose FB is keeping the app awake I forget, but that is what's going on.
FB still hasn't fixed it.
In any scenario .... Facebook is just an example of a bad coded app, but BAR is a good feature that could be useful for many apps.
OK, I have just turned it on for everything, going to keep a close eye on my battery!
I did some empiric tests on BAR since its introduction and the difference between having it on or off was just a few minutes .... totally irrelevant.
Basically all applications have the ability to run in the background (at least for a bit of time usually after they have been used), BAR is just one aspect of when and how often some apps could do somethings in the background, but it doesn't change the ability of an app to actually run in the background as that is a built-in ability from from the OS that is not controllable by the user (short or closing an app after using it or not using it at all).
I use it selectively on particular apps that I desire background refresh. For instance I have background updates turned on for all my content blocking apps, which I love by the way. Thank You Apple. Most apps I am perfectly happy to have them refresh when I open them. Nice part each person can adjust to their own liking. Except for the purposefully coded apps that force a stay open state.
I disagree saying these tracking apps are poorly coded. They are coded exactly as the company wants them coded. That's why the fixes promised are taking so long. They have to figure a fix that still lets them track you. They are tracking your movements, and other phone uses to sell to other people. Google makes there money this way as does Facebook. I don't like it so I don't use Facebook, and as little of Google as I can. My phone, my life, my privacy, my choice. On top of having my privacy violated, I also am upset that my battery is being used and data I buy is being used by these companies without them paying me for it. Data is not cheap and each time the radios are used to report what I am doing or where I am at I feel Facebook and Google reaching into my wallet.
Close Facebook when done using it. Reload it again when you use it. Anything you missed will be updated at the reload. Sure it's convenient to leave it open. Question is more convenient for you or Facebook.
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I get great battery life on my 6 with BAR turned off, and I don't really see any advantages of having it on. It's true that it doesn't help with the Facebook issue though.
Yeah, it is still pretty good. But why have BAR on when it really doesn't do anything for me?
I certainly have, and done more than consider it, have taken action. For instance why would a game need my locations? I selectively allow location for things that benefit me. And only when they are being used, not in background. Others I turn off location completely. Most system services location items are turned off. Not only does this reduce who has access to my location but also reduces radio use both in GPS location and in cellular transmissions to send out that information, thereby extending my battery reserves. That also reduces my data usage, which I pay for and not the businesses and organizations that would consume it tracking my moves and selling that information.
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