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Facebook Implements Fix for iOS App Battery Draining Issues

One of the things I submitted feedback for is having the battery stats be based on since full charge, not based on a 24 hour period. The 24 hour period makes it hard to really track percentage of battery use if you fully charge your phone in the middle of the day.

I am glad FaceBook owned up the the drain and have fixed it. My wife is constantly using the app and will appreciate the better battery life.
 
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I'm still getting "background activity" after this update. If background refresh is turned off what else could that be?
 
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TonyC28 said:
I'm still getting "background activity" after this update. If background refresh is turned off what else could that be?
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It's the typical background activity that any app is allowed. Background refresh is only one aspect of background activity, even with it disabled apps are still allowed to run in the background finishing up something for a few minutes after they have been used.
 
Nebulance said:
This is my biggest complaint about the Facebook app. This still happens to me all the time -- car Bluetooth or not. If I glance at FB for a moment and then go to the Music app, the audio from my Music app is lower than it should be. Installing the update now, so we'll see what happens.
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Seems like people have mentioned this being fixed as well with this latest update.
 
Steve121178 said:
All you people need to stop moaning and simply uninstall it! You have to be crazy to willingly let that garbage run on your devices. Same goes for Facebook Messenger.
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What exactly is crazy about it?
 
The guy says the latest update has "some improvements". So instead of going "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? the Facebook app now goes like this: "Are we there yet? - pauze 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 - Are we there yet? - pauze 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 - Are we there yet?"

Awesome!
 
Having deciding to remove the app (and make my iphone5s a bit more battery happy), and made it a Safari Bookmark, I've got more time.
I do not need to be informed by notifications that someone is having a sandwich during lunch when Im eating mine. Ive come to a conclusion that this is not "Social"
As a lot of my facebooking is friends and family, there are more immediate ways of contacting me, if it's really important.
I do use messenger, and I think that has been a good move by Facebook to break it out.
When the Social aspect explodes (and it will), at least they have a messenger service to fall back on - people will still use that.
 
I switched to using Facebook on Safari/iOS when the issue was reported after another forum user suggested it. It's nice they fixed the issue, but I'm going to stick with Safari. I don't see any downsides and its much much more power and data efficient.
 
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Luckily for FB it wasn't an audio-in problem as in listening to users. That would have killed facebook and most likely class-action lawsuit and the government attacking them heavily. Shareholders would be furious as well.
 
HerrMann said:
So, it's a perception issue? In that case, as I stated, it's worthless.
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No, it's not a perception issue. The battery DOES drain. People have suspected Facebook was the culprit for a while, and now we can see that yes it IS indeed Facebook thanks to iOS 9's breakdown of app battery usage.

A ratio of several minutes on-screen usage to several hours of background usage when you're not a music or navigation app is a problem. Hence why they are fixing it (supposedly).
 
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The guy says the latest update has "some improvements". So instead of going "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? the Facebook app now goes like this: "Are we there yet? - pauze 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 - Are we there yet? - pauze 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 - Are we there yet?"

Awesome!
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Considering it stops running indefinitely in the background it seems like st some point those "are we there yet?" questions simply stop, unlike before.
 
Bob Sanders said:
With all due respect, there is no chance that Facebook was abusing this background audio exploit by accident. This is a known exploit and at least one other app was forced to fix their app or face removal from the App Store because they abused the exact same exploit. It is ludicrous to suggest that an app with the development resources that the Facebook app has, had a "bug" that happened to perfectly align with and facilitate Facebook's interests in collecting data and feeding users constant updates.

What actually happened:
  1. Story comes out
  2. Apple tells Facebook that they have ~2 weeks to fix the app or get pulled.
  3. Facebook fixes the app.
  4. Facebook claims it was a bug, both companies save face.
Apple doesn't just pull apps outright for stuff like this, they give developers time to fix the app before moving to remove the app. Facebook would not have moved this fast if Apple wasn't threatening them with removal.
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finally, someone with some common sense!
 
joeblough said:
man the busy wait is such a rookie mistake that it seems like they might just be incompetent. on the other hand they may have been trying to implement multiple methods to keep the app running. way to go FB.
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That's exactly what it sounds like they were doing. Black hat bs to keep their app from looking like a network hog when you open it up after a long time from when it was last opened.
 
MH01 said:
given the official news that FB fixed a battery bug, and apple having no say about a violation, it's just a wild conspiracy theory at best. If they did get caught with thier hand in the cookie jar, it's been there for a long time.... Fist beta if iOS 9?
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No, it's not a wild conspiracy theory and there was never any official news. There was a Facebook engineer giving a PR approved version that is designed to minimize the issue.

The entire timeline is exactly what would be expected if Apple told them to change the app or get removed. Apple does not pull apps immediately for situations like this, nor do they comment. The times we hear about Apple threatening app removal in the news, is when the developer goes public because they disagree with the decision and think they can score PR points. Apple has never joined that fray, even when they look bad and have to reverse decisions like they did with a few apps after iOS 8 was released.

As to how long it has been there, every indication is that it has been present for months if not years. This is not new to iOS 9, the ability for the user to look in the battery menu to see what is happening is new to iOS 9.
 
Steve121178 said:
All you people need to stop moaning and simply uninstall it! You have to be crazy to willingly let that garbage run on your devices. Same goes for Facebook Messenger.
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You haven't used the Messenger app for over a year haven't you? If so, stop making false accusations about it. The Messenger app is fine, no drain issues with it.

Surprisingly one of the best optimized apps I've used.
 
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