{"id":85426,"date":"2016-02-08T16:03:11","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T14:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85426"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:04:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:04:58","slug":"does-your-iphone-run-out-of-battery-fast-you-could-save-15-just-by-uninstalling-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/does-your-iphone-run-out-of-battery-fast-you-could-save-15-just-by-uninstalling-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Does your iPhone run out of battery fast? You could save 15% just by uninstalling Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: By uninstalling the official <strong>Facebook<\/strong> app for<strong> iOS<\/strong> and opting to use the social network website on Safari in its place, you can save up to <strong>15% battery power<\/strong> every day. We already knew that the app was affecting the Android\u2019s battery life as discussed <a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/is-your-android-slow-blame-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, but now we can confirm the problem also exists on iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>This discovery is not an assumption, but a test that was made by an editor from <strong>The Guardian<\/strong> newspaper. The journalist noticed that after uninstalling the Facebook app, his battery lasted 15% longer than when the app was installed. Instead of using the app to browse Facebook, he accessed the website through the device browser.<\/p>\n<p>In order to prove his point, the editor was not alone during this experiment &#8211; he also invited numerous people to do the same. <strong>The results were clear<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This tests proved that Facebook not only affected the battery life of the device, but also the memory space as the Facebook app consumes <strong>500MB<\/strong>, combining the 111MB of the app itself and its cache on the mobile.<\/p>\n<p>So if you want to save 15% more battery, and free up some memory space, you know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2016\/feb\/08\/uninstalling-facebook-app-saves-iphone-battery-life\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s official: By uninstalling the official Facebook app for iOS and opting to use the social network website on Safari in its place, you can save up to 15% battery power every day. We already knew that the app was affecting the Android\u2019s battery life as discussed here, but now we can confirm the problem &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/does-your-iphone-run-out-of-battery-fast-you-could-save-15-just-by-uninstalling-facebook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Does your iPhone run out of battery fast? You could save 15% just by uninstalling Facebook&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2041,"featured_media":85427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2041"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329321,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85426\/revisions\/329321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85426"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85426"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85426"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}