Is your iPhone running out of battery power so fast that you can barely keep up with its charging demands? This type of battery degradation is not normal, and addressing it may mean doing a little spring cleaning where your apps are concerned.
Some apps on your phone take up more battery power than others because they are being asked to do more and take up more of your phone’s resources. If you head into Settings > Battery, you will be able to see a list of the apps that take up battery power, along with the percentage of battery they take up. This list won’t be the same for everyone, but a few apps always seem to make the round among iPhone users.
These four battery-draining iPhone apps are among the ones to consider deleting if battery longevity has become an issue for you.
Facebook, why do you insist on taking up so much battery power? The answer is quite simple: it plays continuous streams of videos, whether those videos are being uploaded by your friends or by its many advertisers who pay for your data so that they can better target their content. In addition to videos, Facebook has access to your camera, microphone, contacts and locations — all of which contribute to its battery-taxing nature. Deleting the app and using Facebook on your browser can help you retain valuable battery power.
Netflix
We’re sorry to pick on Netflix — you can replace that app with any other media streaming app, like Hulu or Amazon Prime — and the outcome will be the same: battery loss.
It makes sense that Netflix and similar apps take up battery power when they’re being asked to display video, play sound, and retain a strong enough Internet connection to get you through a three-hour movie. Instead of deleting Netflix, another solution would be to choose one streaming platform to keep on your phone and delete the others to save battery and space. You may want to keep a charger handy while watching content, too.
Tinder
Dating apps can drain a ton of battery power. Tinder is one of the worst offenders because it lets no less than 11 resources to run in the background at all times. A lot of dating apps also lack dark mode, which means your phone has to work harder on a brighter setting. Dark Mode has been found to reduce your phone’s power consumption by 42 percent at 100 percent screen brightness — not having this feature can affect your battery power.
YouTube
Even though we already called out streaming apps for the way they take up tons of battery resources, we mention YouTube separately for one good reason: many people associate it with a different time — a simpler time before streaming apps like Netflix became the norm. We may remember watching fast videos on YouTube and not imagining the platform could take up so much battery power. But times have changed and users can spend hours on YouTube watching a variety of short and long-form content. As a result, this app takes up considerable resources and battery power.
If you can, delete the YouTube app from your phone and enjoy all it has to offer via your browser instead.
