Fitbit, Uber and Skype. Here are the apps that devour the battery of smartphones
A Swiss company has compiled the ranking of the apps that consume the most smartphone battery: Fitbit, Uber, Skype and Facebook at the top of the list
If the user keeps fit with Fitbit, the same thing cannot be said for the battery of the smartphone with this app.
Surprisingly, Fitbit leads the ranking of apps that consume the most battery. Fitbit's 'battery drain' effect is equal to 92 points out of 100 according to an analysis by the Swiss cloud storage company pCloud . Together with this, with the same score, the Verizon App is literally devouring the battery, followed by Uber and Skype with 87 points, Facebook, Airbnb and Bigo Live with 82 points.
“93% of smartphone users use these apps on a daily basis. This causes the batteries of the phones to start to suffer, coming to not cover the whole day. We wanted to find out which apps, among the most widespread and used, were that most sucked up resources ”, they explain from the pCloud blog.
Looking at the ranking, there are many social or messaging platforms in the top 20. The top 10 is closed by Instagram (79 points), Tinder and Bumble (both at 77 points).
THE RANKING OF PCLOUD
The Swiss company analyzed 100 of the most popular apps and the requests they make on your device.
To get to draw up the ranking, there are three factors that are taken into consideration for each of the apps analyzed: the features used during use, such as geolocation or the camera, battery consumption in the background and the possibility of switching to " dark ”, ie with less white and more black as a background, an option that not only allows for lower energy consumption but also helps the eyes to rest.
FITBIT AND VERIZON THE APPS THAT CONSUME MORE BATTERY
From the analysis, the top two in the rankings, Fitbit and Verizon, showed the use of 14 out of 16 features in the background, including 4 that are considered the most demanding on the battery: camera, location, microphone and Wi-Fi connection. .
FOLLOWED BY INSTAGRAM AND BUMBLE
Six of the top 20 battery drainers are social media platforms.
In addition to Instagram, for example, Facebook, Snapchat, YouTube, WhatsApp and LinkedIn appear.
“Overall, the study clearly indicates that social media apps are still one of the biggest 'killers' of phones when it comes to draining the battery. However, our analysis also highlights how fitness or travel apps, which require more features to run in the background, can be the most demanding on the battery "
ONLINE APPOINTMENTS ARE “STRESS” FOR THE PHONE
Furthermore, the pCloud study found that online dating consumes the phone's battery as much as users' “emotions”. Online dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, and Grinder make up 15% of the best killer apps, allowing you to run 11 functions in the background on average.
All three dating apps don't have dark mode available and therefore require more power when used, causing the battery to drain faster.
TWITTER THE LESS EXOSED
Twitter, on the other hand, is the least demanding but still appears in 25th place.
WHO TAKES MORE MEMORY IN THE PHONE
Finally, pCloud also looked at the apps that take up the most memory, based on the average phone that can hold up to 64GB of built-in storage and the OS taking up around 10GB.
United Airlines was the worst in this category, followed by Lyft and Uber ridesharing services. Fitbit and Facebook are back in the top five for this category as well.
In this case, the food delivery apps Uber Eats, My Mcdonalds and Yelp Food made the top 30.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/fitbit-uber-e-skype-ecco-le-app-che-divorano-la-batteria-degli-smartphone/ on Mon, 24 May 2021 04:35:26 +0000.