True, which is why people are uninstalling it for the moment.
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Facebook killing battery
- Thread starter Takeo Apple
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I had similar issue, ended up removing Facebook 
. Now battery is back to normal
. Now battery is back to normalPrecisely my use also. I have hobby groups I co/admin, my kids and grandkids photos on here and instagra. I keep in touch with some international friends (fossil trllobites) via messenger no texting possible. And a couple other interest groups I partipate. But much of the rest is junk, spam and click bait to sell you and get you stirred up I try to avoid/ignore not respond any longer. If not for the aforementioned uses I would be gone in a heartbeat. As has been mentioned elsewhere I also have always had background refresh off to slow down the horrid power use by some updates to the app.
I wonder if this is a bug connected to something nefarious. It wouldn’t surprise me if it was discovered a hidden feature that violates our privacy has a bug.
This is not the first time Facebook has been using the audio API to do background processes. A good proof is that when I am playing music over AirPods and open the Facebook app it often stops the music.
I deleted FB for now.
Yeah, whenever I opened Facebook my music would always pause.
In the past (iOS 9 days) they were using a VoIP string to keep the app active in the background indefinitely (otherwise it would get killed by iOS). Very shady
Facebook uses VOIP and audio background processes to stay alive in the background even with Background App Refresh off. It has been doing it forever, and it won’t stop. It’s a pathetic app and I reckon Apple doesn‘t do anything about it because it’s Facebook. Unfortunately, the only thing you can do is delete it.
Interesting. Facebook only takes up 4% of my battery like the last 10 days. Safari is almost 50%.
People who are a bit more suspicious would say that it’s because the app is listening to your conversation. Who hasn’t heard their friends say yeah five minutes after I talked about scuba diving Facebook shows me ads for diving gear. I don’t mean specifically scuba diving. I just used that as an example.
I don’t think they would care to pull in audio because that would be too much data to process. I think it’s just because it wants to be able to take over the sound with whatever advertisement video it’s playing. I’m a little suspicious Facebook is using some sort of backhanded way to access GPS location especially since it pulls so much battery in the background but I’m not sure if there’s a way to tell.
Either way it was killing my battery so till they tame it down I am going to stick with Facebook in the browser
Facebook app update just dropped. What are odds that they’ve fixed this issue? I’ll say 0%.
This has been present for years, like I said earlier. It will not be solved. The Facebook app equals battery drain and it will always be like that.
I have this issue on all my devices including my iPads that´s still on 15.7 so I think it’s a problem related to the app itself. I deleted the app on my phone for now because it affected the battery there but it don’t seems to affect my battery on iPad.
My Facebook is just fine on iOS 16.0.2. It has done this once in the past, and I fixed it by deleting and reinstalling the app. Probably some defective database file. It happened to other apps before.
Share with us, if you will, your cheat sheet of which apps to use vs which home screen short cuts we should be used for optimal performance.
It has been known for quite some time now that the Facebook app is one of the most cancerous apps to ever bless the human race, be it on iOS or Android.
I rest my case.