application Facebook it is a very large energy consumer of our iDevices and that's not only because we use it very often, but also because some of its functions are not really that useful to us, but are run automatically by the application and consume energy.
A lot of people constantly complain about the fact that the Facebook application consumes iDevice battery power too quickly, and for this problem there are some solutions that will give you the opportunity to get more usage time for your terminals.
By combining the recommendations below you will be able to increase the battery life of your iDevices by up to 30% while using Facebook, so choose carefully what is useful to you and what is not useful to you.
Disable the automatic playback of video clips
Those from Facebook are trying to compete with YouTube on the video sharing market, so they have implemented in the Facebook application the option of automatically playing video clips that appear in the news feed, this function consumes a lot of battery energy, but it can be deactivated.
- Open the application Facebook.
- Access the menu More from the bottom right of the interface.
- Scroll down and access the section Settings.
- Access the section Videos and Photos.
- Access the section Autoplay.
- Click on the entry Never autoplay videos and return to the main menu of the application.
Disabling GPS location and updates in the background, Background App Refresh
For several years, the Facebook application has implemented functions that require GPS location, but most of them are not available in Romania. Apart from these, if you do not show your location when you write a status or publish a picture, then you can disable the location which is done constantly and consumes a lot of energy.
In the same way, if you don't want the Facebook application to constantly check the news available to you when you don't have the application open on the main screen, then you can disable background updates, Background App Refresh.
- Go to Settings > Facebook > Settings, Configurations > Facebook > Settings.
- Here, set the Location Services option to Never and uncheck Background App Refresh.
Disable certain notifications
Facebook sends a lot of notifications constantly and if you no longer want to receive some of them, then visit the menu mentioned in the previous step and select from there which notifications you want to be sent to your terminals by the application.
Close the background application
Although theoretically the Facebook application should suspend its activity when we close it from the first screen and it remains open in the background, unfortunately it has been proven in many cases that it continues to do various tasks without us knowing.
Those from Facebook have always said that problems are rare, but unfortunately the only way to avoid them is to completely close the application in the background when you are not using it.
Use the Facebook website in Safari
Accessing the Facebook website instead of using the application from the App Store can bring a major improvement in the performance of our terminals, but to do this you have to deprive yourself of certain functions, the benefit being the substantial increase in battery autonomy.
