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Certain apps can enhance your life in so many ways, while others may be worth downloading, but aren’t always doing any favors to your phone and its battery. If there’s one app that you already know can dim your battery life, it’s Facebook — but that’s not the only app that is causing your phone potential brain drainage. This is the unexpected app tech experts say you should stop using ASAP because it drains your battery.
Background Activity and Location Services
According to Lynda Fairly, founder of numlooker.com, the most battery-draining applications that we use on our phones are background activity and location services. “Background activity is generally any app that includes actions like checking the time, updating and synchronizing email and social media apps, and downloading content from the internet,” Fairly says. “Location services are also a major battery drain as they constantly use GPS or cell towers to determine where you are. To reduce their impact on our battery we need to turn off services that utilize GPS or location information in our smartphones.”
Of course, there are plenty of other unexpected battery-draining apps to keep on your radar, including one you might never consider.
“One unexpected app that slows down your phone is the weather app because it has to constantly store, and refresh to show the latest data, which can slow down your device and drain the battery unconsciously yet massively,” Fairly says. “You can access weather information from a variety of sources such as opening any browser to search. Therefore there is no need to keep a weather app on your phone eating your loading speed away.”
