I tried turning off background refresh on Facebook, only use location when i am using the app, and then turning off location services and app refresh for the entire phone. Facebook continued to eat up battery with it regularly using more than 50% of my battery. I decided to just delete the app. Don't know that i'll reinstall it even after a "fix" is given.
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Facebook Aware of iOS App Battery Life Drain Issue and Working on a Fix
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Never thought I'd leave facebook but the whole place has become so toxic. So I don't care about it anymore. I use messenger though. Reddit is a better social network imo. I love it.
I haven't used the app in years because it always drained the battery. After I deleted the app, I was able to get through a whole day with plenty of battery to spare. Before, I was having a hard time getting through the day. I still just use the browser for this very reason.
I don't let Facebook update in the background, and since then I've not had any problems with it. My 6S Plus gets nearly two days of battery life.
Four hours on Facebook? Ridiculous! Try doing something productive with your time like spending all of your time on MacRumors.com
Frankly, you need better friends. Mine mostly share amusing or thought-provoking things that happened to them in the real world. And cat pictures. It's how I keep in touch with a number of people. I was long a disbeliever in Facebook, but after finally getting drawn in, it's a nice way to keep in touch with faraway friends, in a much more casual, group setting than email affords.
Background refresh and the ability of apps to run in the background are fairly different things. Background refresh is a newer feature that can be controlled by the user and is there to allow an app to run in the background at times when needed. But even without that feature apps have pretty much always (at least for a long time now) have been able to run in the background within limits (usually to wrap up some of their tasks and only for a limited time), with some exceptions like VoIP, music, navigation, etc. that allow those types of apps more indefinite time to run in the background. There are no user controls when it comes to allowing or not allowing an app to run in the background in general--that's basically built-in OS functionality.
You must be older because 20 something only care to post about me me me me me. My mom or other older family members don't do this. I'd have to delete like 97% of my friends.
Edit: Not saying being older is bad, just simply saying that there is a problem with my generation. Even I fall into it sometimes and often wake up deleting posts in the morning after sleeping on what I've said a few times.
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It's getting more notice now probably because there's finally more reporting of more battery usage details that are more prominent in iOS 9. Battery now has its own section rather than being deep in under the General section in Settings. There is now (not since iOS 9, but still fairly recently in iOS history) way to see how much battery is being used up by different apps, and with iOS 9 in particular there's now a way to see the actual time and split between actual on-screen use and background use for those different apps. It's those things that are surfacing it all to the top, even though the underlying issue was there before, just not as visible or harder to prove essentially.
I'm not even sure what that aspect of the discussion even matters. It's like discussing if you should call or text people--there isn't something right or wrong or good or bad about any of those things, just what works individually for different people at different times. Facebook or social network or anything similar to that is like that, and trying to prove it's this or that to others is rather moot since it is what it is for different people and what others think about it doesn't matter.
Not sure why anyone installs it anymore. The HTML5 browser version is robust, and doesn't require you to have, or install messenger in order to respond to others messages.
You can still get notifications without the app installed, work with your group or events, and upload pictures without the bloated app.
You can still get notifications without the app installed, work with your group or events, and upload pictures without the bloated app.
Yep what it doesn't explain tho is why you go to bed without charging your device so its ready for the next day.
Do you guys notice some versions of facebook app use more data (with background app refresh and location service disabled)?
I found a fix for the battery issues, the steps I took was:
1. Talk to people in real life
2. If you want to watch stupid random crap try watching your colleagues
3. When eating food eat it, don't take a photo and upload it
1. Talk to people in real life
2. If you want to watch stupid random crap try watching your colleagues
3. When eating food eat it, don't take a photo and upload it
"Facebook Aware of iOS App Battery Life Drain Issue and Working on a Fix."
Translation = "We are working on a way to steal your private information and log things that we shouldn't be logging, without draining the battery so much."
Translation = "We are working on a way to steal your private information and log things that we shouldn't be logging, without draining the battery so much."
for 4 hours over 6 days? I do more than that and i say to myself i don't even use facebook haha.