We show you 5 apps that are destroying the battery of your mobile. And it is that, despite technological advances, the autonomy of the devices remains the eternal fight between brands and users.
Since the first mobiles hit the market, our devices have advanced a lot to become the smart phones that they are now. But although technological advances are evident and in many cases surprising, batteries are still the main workhorse of smartphones.
At the moment, until new systems arrive, all of them are based on the well-known lithium batteries, which in most cases at full capacity do not exceed 24 hours without needing to be recharged. The increasingly continued use of mobile phones and the massive download and use of applications are factors that greatly decrease the duration of our devices.
To know which applications are the ones that use the autonomy of a phone the most, all you have to do is go to the “Settings” menu in Android and from there in “Power management”, access the consumption or battery use that each application entails. If you have an iPhone, this information can be found directly in the “Battery” section.
The security company Avast has made a report that collects the worst applications in terms of draining the battery life of your Android smartphone.
Among the apps highlighted as the largest consumers of mobile battery that the list collects, very popular applications present in most mobile devices.
Below you can review 5 of the applications that use the most battery on your smartphone.
Netflix
Streaming services are generally in the rankings of apps that consume the most battery from you mobile. Like Netflix, which appears in the ranking of Avast in third place, Spotify, YouTube or the video editor of Samsung, they are also what is usually known as digital vampires. In other words, they will leave your smartphone dry even without being used.
In addition to ruining the battery of mobile phones, applications such as that of the Netflix video platform involves significant data consumption. Therefore, it is always advisable to use this type of app when we have the possibility to connect to the Wifi or to download previously, if possible, the content to view offline.
Snapchat
Despite not enjoying a very high popularity in USA compared to competitors like Instagram or TikTok, Snapchat is an application widely used by younger users, attracted by small video clips and photos shared for a few hours, a concept that Facebook has replicated on Instagram with the Stories, on the Facebook app itself and even on Whatsapp.
Since the Memories Snapchat function came, it has become one of the most battery-consuming apps on mobile phones. Among the possibilities to reduce energy consumption, you can set the travel mode in the app or disable the update in the background.
It may not be a surprise to find Facebook apps in this list. And it is that the mobile application of the most popular social network has not been very optimizable for our devices at the moment. In addition to being heavy and consuming a good amount of data, frequent use of it through the mobile phone will reduce its capacity by up to 15%.
The recommendation – especially if you have a very old mobile phone – is to move it to the list of applications that you should remove from your mobile phone and access Facebook through the web. You can also download the Lite version developed by Facebook from this link.
It is another of the most popular applications in the world that has the highest battery consumption as soon as your mobile device starts up. The instant messaging app is an energy eater, although the improvements they have made to it have optimized the battery in a certain sense.
And it is that although the chats themselves are not large consumers, the continued use of it, and the consequent lighting of the screen that this requires as well as the increasing number of documents, images and GIFs that you share with your contacts make your mobile lose its autonomy in a matter of hours.
Google Maps
In general, the package offered by Google on Android phones is a large consumer of mobile battery. Google Play Store, Google Chrome, Hangouts or GMail among others, can make the autonomy of the device quickly decrease if they are used very continuously.
Among all of them, specifically the Avast classification is collected by Google Maps. We do not doubt the effectiveness of this application that has constantly led more than one to their destination. But the fact of using the GPS for this means that the need for a large amount of energy is inevitable. In addition, this app maintains the history of your movements, whose storage increases the consumption of the battery