Facebook's iOS App Drains Battery Life; RUMOR: Facebook Bugs Were Created On Purpose

by Krezna de los Reyes / Oct 24, 2015 01:22 AM EDT

The Facebook app is draining the iPhone's battery life. The apps battery usage can be monitored using the iOS 9 battery menu and revealed the app is draining battery life than usual.

Facebook Company has already acknowledge the issue, "We found a few key issues and have identified additional improvements, some of which are in the version of the app that was released today," a post from Ari Grant Facebook's engineering manager today, according to The Verge.

A "CPU Spin" was the first problem they have found in their network. This process is simply described as a child that keeps on asking the question "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" resulting to no improvement in reaching the location and this repetitive process is causing the phone to consume more battery usage.

The other issue found was the "audio session". It happens when users watch a video and left the app open afterwards, the audio session is playing the audio silently and consumes the background processing power, according to Engadget.

Before the battery draining news began, Federico Vittici of MacStories hypothesized the issue that turned out right. He even believed that Facebook used it intentionally to keep the apps running for pre-loading purposes, which he stated "a deep lack of respect for iOS users." Reported on MacRumors.

Referring to Grant's post on Facebook TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino, assumes the idea that Facebook have done the audio session on purpose even though the company denied the accusations. "If you don't believe him, it was a thing Facebook was doing to make their app work a way they wanted it to but Apple didn't and they got caught." Added on MacRumors.

These issues that drain iOS phones battery life has been resolved by Facebook. Facebook confirmed that none of the issues is linked to location services option in the app, as stated by Grant on The Verge.

A version is released today to fix both issue and made it better for the iOS users. "We are committed to continuing to improve the battery usage of our app and you should see improvements in the version released today," Grant wrote, reported on The Verge.