Remove Facebook, and your smartphone will run on 20% longer

In this article, we'll show you that sometimes the reason for the low autonomy and low performance of mobile gadget is not in its technical characteristics. Reporters found that the Facebook app is able to bring to their knees even the most powerful device.

The mobile client social network Facebook is one of the most popular applications like on iOS platform and the Android. However, many of its users, sooner or later begin to complain about the performance problems and the autonomy of their gadgets. It is interesting that this is happening with almost all smartphones, even with the most powerful flagship model.

This observation has prompted Reddit user service, hiding under the name pbrandes_eth, To test the performance of its LG G4 with installed applications Facebook and Facebook Messenger without them. During the experiment, he measured the change in the start time to 15 different programs, depending on the availability of the phone Facebook app. the results of their test he clearly displayed as the following picture.

After the removal of Facebook and Facebook Messenger smartphone running Android has become 15% faster. This result is so impressed with the journalist Samuel Gibbs (Samuel Gibbs), he also wanted to test the impact of these programs on the battery life of the gadget. In his article He writes that the client removal of Facebook has allowed its smartphone Huawei Nexus 6P work for 20% longer. Measurements were made every day during the week. It is a tangible gain!

And what about iOS?

For iPhone owners, we also have some interesting information. All the same journalist The Guardian foundThat use Facebook instead of the client in the Safari web interface helps to save up to 15% charge the smartphone battery. Every evening, Gibbs wrote down what percentage of charge remaining as a result of normal daily use of its iPhone 6S Plus. The first week, he analyzed the consumption of installed Facebook application, and the second - without him. In addition to increasing the battery life time, Facebook has allowed the removal of nearly 500 MB free memory (the client itself weighs 111 MB, plus a cache).

I am sure that after reading this article you have a question about the optimal replacement for such a voracious Facebook client. This we will tell you very soon in one of our next articles.