It’s the most popular social media app in the world — and, no, it isn’t Facebook. WhatsApp is so popular because it is used in almost every country to connect people and allow for faster, and more private communication. But hold that thought. No app is perfect and when it comes to security, privacy, and even battery concerns, there are a few things about WhatsApp that are worth keeping on your radar. This is the unexpected downside to using WhatsApp that no one tells you about.
Major Battery Drainage
its great popularity and an ever-growing number of new features comes major battery drainage. “Today, WhatsApp is one of the leading social media applications used by people around the world to communicate, share their lifestyles and influence others with an idea, a product, or a brand,” says William Cannon, CEO, and Founder of Uplead. “Recently, since the takeover of WhatsApp by the social media giant, Facebook, a number of new features have been added to further enhance the experience of sharing content and effectively communicating with friends and relatives.”
On the other hand, Cannon says, WhatsApp is well known to be responsible for draining phone batteries on its regular usage. “In fact, the recent feature updates provided by the application in fingerprint safety, other feature updates, and notifications are considered to be the major culprits of this issue,” Cannon says. “In addition, forming huge WhatsApp groups with users from different time zones leads to the situation where users continue to post messages or share content round the clock and the message updates keep on reaching the phones. This process goes on in the background which further leads to the battery drain issue.”
It isn’t all bad. Cannon notes that WhatsApp as an application is adding certain features like fingerprint safety and message encryptions to protect the users in terms of data security and privacy. In other words: you may not be willing to delete WhatsApp, but it’s still worth finding ways to use it without killing your battery. “We can still save our phone batteries from draining by disabling the message notification and multimedia auto-download option where the messages and media received will not be notified or downloaded until approval from the user,” Cannon says.
