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I’ve been splitting time between Lemmy and Reddit since Apollo shut down. I’ve been using the official Reddit mobile app.

I just looked at my battery stats and holy cow. It ate 40% of a full charge in 2 hours of screen time. I’m not an app developer, but that seems…bad

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[–] Blimey85@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TikTok is like that but it’s loading videos continuously so it makes more sense that it would use a lot. I never noticed significant battery drain with Apollo.

[–] DakRalter@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post on the mildlyinfuriating sub where someone had tiktok installed but hadn't loaded it in like a month or something, but it had used a full 2GB of data. Tiktok does more than load videos.

[–] Blimey85@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always force quit it after I’m done. I wonder if that prevents this. Probably not.

[–] Bozicus@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Almost certainly not. I think if an app gets the right permissions on installation, it doesn't have to be officially running to take data and send it to the company.