Mobile apps can use too much power or processor resources. A recent study listed what are the apps with higher energy consumption by 93% of smartphone users who use them daily.
The study “Secret Phone Killers” of the consulting firm pCloud analyzed 100 of the most popular apps and found which ones not only drain smartphone batteries the most, but also consume more memory and slow down the system.
According to the Infobae portal, the list of the 20 apps that consume the most battery is completed by Airbnb, BIGO Live, Instagram, Tinder, Bumble, Snapchat, WhatsApp, Zoom, YouTube, Booking.com, Amazon, Telegram, Grindr, Likke and LinkedIn .
The particularity of these 20 apps that distinguishes pCloud is that they all allow 11 functions to run in the background, such as access to the microphone, photos, contacts, location, camera and Wi-Fi, among others.
Dating apps like Bumble, Grindr, and Tinder account for 15% of the top battery-draining apps. While social networks represent 6 of the 20 most demanding applications with the cell phone battery. Of this group, only Instagram allows dark mode, which can save up to 30% battery life.
A problem also for memory
An average cell phone can have up to 64GB of built-in storage, and the operating system takes up roughly 10GB. The consultancy also analyzed the amount of space that apps require. It studied 100 of the main applications, compiling the amount of MB of space that each one needs, indicated the aforementioned medium.
The United Airlines app takes up the largest amount of cell phone storage. It requires 437.8MB of space. It is followed by Lyft, with 325.1MB of space, and Uber with 299.6MB. All these applications then require a lot of space and can slow down your device.
On the other hand, Microsoft Teams, a widely used video conferencing app in the corporate world, requires 232.2 MB of space compared to Zoom, which only uses 82.1 MB of space, and Skype, which uses 111.2 MB. Regarding food delivery apps, Uber Eats, My McDonald’s and Yelp Food are among the 30 applications that consume the most storage space.
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