Facebook and messaging client Messenger tend to drain the battery of our smartphones abnormally. It’s an issue that has been raised multiple times over the course of a year, but seems to have finally been resolved not by updating the two apps, but simply by a fix at the servers level.
As a test conducted at the end of November revealed, removing the Facebook app saves 20% more autonomy. The social network had promised to optimize its energy consumption after realizing that its app was a real scourge for our smartphones, but until today the problem remained. Additionally, the latest Messenger update rolled out in December magnified the problem in the messaging client.
But according to the vice president of messaging products at Facebook, the issue has finally been resolved on the server side. The second good news is that you won’t have to wait for the two apps to update to take advantage of the fix.
In his opinion, in order to solve the problem of autonomy and return to normal battery consumption, it is enough to close two applications from the recent applications menu and then restart, which will have the effect of reloading information at the server level. . He also adds that it is better to use the public version of the application available on the Play Store, rather than the beta.
We’ll still wait for initial feedback to find out if the promise is kept and whether the gain of autonomy is significant enough before we rejoice, but it’s hard to imagine the social network will announce such news without being sure of its action. Otherwise, there will always be an alternative to using Facebook without an application from the mobile site.
@bestsportnascar @alxpap issue isolated and fixed on server side. If you restart Messenger, the problem should be gone now. I am really sad.
—David Marcus (@davidmarcus) January 10, 2017
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