they haven't fixed the notification bug! pi**ed off seeing a badge only to realise its the same damn notification from the previous day.
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Facebook Implements Fix for iOS App Battery Draining Issues
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Go into your Facebook settings > account settings > videos and photos > change autoplay to never autoplay videos. This will stop videos from playing automatically when you scroll over them in your news feed.
I agree with TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino. I still don't trust Facebook and I wont install, not yet.
Just turned off background app refresh for Facebook - I don't need it doing things in the background, at most what, no notifications from FB? Its not like email or messages anyways. The latest app seems to be doing far too much background work still.
You still get notifications and all that. And Facebook can still run on the background for a few minutes after you use it, similar to any other app essentially. Background refresh just basically controls whether or not an app can wake up on its own at some points in time to retrieve some additional data (beyond notifications) to make things load faster once you get back to the app at some point.
Facebook in Safari can do so much more than the app too, like tag your own pages in a status update. You know, rocket science.
It was an honest question. I stopped using Facebook a while ago and it seemed like most people where getting rid their accounts.
Tbf, it wasn't a particularly helpful comment in a thread about battery problems. There were 1.49bn Facebook users as of Q2 according to one estimate, so they can afford to lose a few without worrying.
Thank you for keeping the conversation civil - it would have been easy for this to become a mud-slinging.
I think we both see the same thing but are perceiving it differently. You are seeing the glass half-full, perhaps because you have had positive experiences interacting with or using FB. My experiences (direct and indirect) have been less positive, so I tend to see the glass as half-empty and leaking. I also work in a field where privacy is an extremely hot topic, so it is possible that I have become over-sensitized to potential incursions (real or perceived).
Again - thanks for presenting an alternate viewpoint.
Interesting that people are still having battery drain issues. I've yet to reinstall it and think I'll stay on the web version for now.
At the same time there are also some who haven't had them and still don't have them. Go figure.
Good call. You can benefit from the content blockers in safari (if you have one). Whereas with the app, nothing is blocked. I deleted FB and Messenger. Also deactivated my account. Really have no need for it. Only came back after 2 years for one thing and was on it for about 5 months. Now, back off.
How long ago did you delete it? If it was less than 24 hours ago then the statistics will still show how much battery it used before it was deleted during the last 24 hours.
Thanks! I had the same revelation a few mins ago
But thanks to this thread I am now going the purify-safari route.If Apple showed the balls to delete the app from the App Store for sucking battery nefariously,I bet the app would be fixed within 24 hours
Can't say I'm really surprised. Based on the fact that Facebook is listed separately from the installed apps in Settings (alongside Twitter, Vimeo, etc), I'd say that Apple is letting them get away with these types of exploits. The only reason this one was fixed is because Federico Vittici called them out on it. I've installed the new version of FB, shut off notifications and background app refresh, and will be letting it sit in the background for 24 hours. If it uses more than ~30 minutes of battery time, I'll be uninstalling again.