4 Battery-Draining Apps To Delete Right Now Because They Slow Down Your iPhone

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.