Which apps drain your smartphone battery the most?
The Dutch service pCloud compared the 100 most popular Android apps in terms of battery consumption, as well as the use of RAM and storage. The test results show which software drains and slows down our smartphones the most.
The analysis took into account three factors: background processes that each application uses (for example, access to GPS or camera), energy consumption, and the presence of a dark mode in the program.
Fitbit and Verizon apps turned out to be the most gluttonous to smartphone resources. They keep 14 out of 16 possible processes constantly in the background, including the four most demanding ones: camera, location, microphone, and Wi-Fi connection. This brought them the highest anti-rating – 92.31%
Among the applications actively draining the battery, social networks dominate. Together they took 6 places out of 20. On average, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Youtube, WhatsApp and Linkedin have 11 additional processes running in the background that consume smartphone resources.
Despite many complex tasks running in the background, displaying an image on the phone screen is still the most energy-intensive function. So much so that switching the interface to dark mode on devices with OLED matrices can reduce battery consumption by up to 30%. Meanwhile, most social media clients, as well as dating apps like Tinder and Bumble, don’t have this option — hence their high position on the list.
What to do with resource-intensive applications? The most effective solution is the simplest – just delete them! It’s worth saying goodbye without regrets to outdated software that is rarely used, but regularly collects information about you, wasting the energy and memory of your smartphone. It’s also possible that some of the programs you use have more cost-effective alternatives.
However, it is not always possible to uninstall an application. In this case, in the phone settings, you can specify which permissions to access background processes will be available for individual applications. It will be useful to limit them to situational functions, for example, to prohibit determining GPS locations when the program is not used, or in principle does not have such a task (why does the conditional Telegram need access to your geolocation?)
