A good mobile phone can have a battery between 3,000 and 4000mAh, depending on the size of the screen. The bigger the screen, the faster the battery tends to consume, but that is not the only factor that makes your phone drier than the eye of a one-eyed person. Apps play an essential role in all of this.
Demanding applications: The 20 apps that consume the most battery on your smartphone
Recently, pCloud created a list of all those demanding applications that consume battery and resources beyond their possibilities. If you have any of these installed in your terminal, it is most likely that you will be able to increase the device’s autonomy, notably if you decide to uninstall them.
pCloud has called these apps “Secret Phone Killers.” Many of the reasons for the high battery consumption of these applications are related to the number of permissions they require and the fact that they are always running in the background.
- Fitbit
- Verizon
- Uber
- Skype
- Airbnb
- Tinder
- Bumble
- Snapchat
- BIGO LIVE
- Zoom
- Youtube
- Booking
- Amazon
- Telegram
- Likee
- Grindr
To prepare this list, the 100 most popular mobile apps have been taken into consideration, analyzing not only battery consumption but other factors such as the number of accesses requested (access to the camera, Wi-Fi, storage, GPS, microphone, etc. ) and if the app has a dark mode. This last piece of information is important since, in applications like Instagram, the dark mode helps reduce battery consumption by up to 30%.
As you can see, the ranking is populated by many social media and messaging applications, something quite logical considering that they are always running in the background to notify you of any news through notifications. They also require a lot of access to be able to communicate and upload content.
Heavy applications: The 30 apps that occupy the most space on the mobile
In general, a mid-range smartphone usually has a 64GB storage unit to install the operating system (in Android, it is usually about 10GB) and do what you want with the rest (save photos and videos, install apps, etc. .).
Among the most popular applications in the top 100, some apps take the cake, taking up much more space than other similar applications.
- United Airlines
- Lyft
- Uber
- Tinder
- Uber Eats
- PayPal
- Microsoft Teams
- Youtube
- Airbnb
- TikTok
- Nike
- Snapchat
- Yelp
- AOL
- Duolingo
- Google Classroom
- My MacDonald’s
- YouTube music
- BIGO LIVE
- Slack
- Fitbit
- Shein
- Amtrak
- Likke
- Sleepcycle
- Spotify
- CNN
The United Airlines flight booking app takes the top spot on the podium, needing almost half a gigabyte to work, followed by other transportation apps like Lyft and Uber. The Fitbit sports app is not only the one that consumes the most battery, but it also occupies the most space on the mobile. If you want to get in shape, it is clear that you have to make sacrifices, but no one said that it also had to be extended to your mobile phone.
Dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, or Grinder are also the most demanding applications, consuming a large amount of battery and running an average of 11 processes in the background. In addition, these types of applications do not have a dark mode either, which prevents you from saving a little less battery by reducing the energy consumption of the screen. Â
