14 DAY TRIAL // An iOS developer has released an extensive analysis of how some apps behave and has concluded that iPhone/iPad battery drain is directly tied to our social networking habits.
Particularly, Sebastian Duvel points to WhatsApp explaining, “When it seems like it’s terminated it’s actually running exactly those allowed 10 minutes and continues to communicate directly with its server instead of using iOS’ push notifications. That’s draining more battery, of course,” he says.
For those who use Facebook, “Looking at the flags in Instruments you can see that the app is waking up every few minutes, does something for 10 second and sleeps again,” the developer writes.
He concludes that Facebook also taxes the CPU a lot, which takes its toll on the battery. Visit his blog for the full scoop.
People who use both WhatsApp and Facebook on their iPhones will probably think twice now before taking to Apple’s official forums to complain about iOS battery drain. Not that Apple couldn’t do something to alleviate the problems, but it appears that the fault is not theirs entirely.