The “debate” on whether the Facebook app drains your smartphone faster has been going on for quite some time now, with some firmly in the “Facebook is bad for your phone” camp and others that say you cannot live without it so might as well live with it. A reddit user named pbrandes_eth is reopening the discussion by saying that when he uninstalled the app and the accompanying Messenger app, his phone ran 15% faster. As always, the fun is in the comments section.
The user says that he wanted to put it to the test on his LG G4, choosing to use the DiscoMark benchmarking app he downloaded from the Google Play Store. He did 15 runs and chose to reboot before each run and tested 20 apps that he used often, including Kindle, Calculator, Camera, Chrome, Gmail, Spotify, etc. After doing the 15 runs, he found out that his smartphone is running 15% faster than when he had Facebook and Messenger installed. Of course he made a disclaimer that the results would probably vary per user, taking into consideration the different phones and the frequently used apps.
Of course people had to comment. One user said that other apps do this also, not just the Facebook owned apps like Instagram and WhatsApp. He cited apps like Dropbox, Spotify, OneDrive, etc that sit in your memory and starts immediately when you boot your phone. But some agree with the original poster that Facebook does use an excessive amount of RAM and they’re one of the, if not the biggest culprits when it comes to RAM and battery hogging.
At the end of the day, it’s up to you dear user, if you will choose to free yourself of the Facebook app on your device, and just use Facebook on your browser-app just like the reddit poster. But if you feel like you can live with the slowing down (if you believe there is) of your device since you use Facebook a lot, then of course you’d like for it to stay.
SOURCE: Reddit
E quem vai desinstalar?
that mans instead of half a second opening an app it takes 0.425 seconds
The results do not surprise me. We had a spare Samsung S3 that still had my wife’s FB account. The phone was bogged down. Deleting FB made the device usable. I use the spare phone to monitor vehicle parameters while driving/towing.
and if you root & delete everything except for the 8 apps you actually use (20mb), then the phone reacts in 0.2second…
My husband just got the samsung s8. He downloaded the facebook app. He switched it to his sd card. Guess what it caused his phone to freeze and reboot itself several times a day. At first we thought did we get a bad phone? Nope upon looking at different samsung help forums we found that the problem was putting the facebook app on the sd card. Once he removed it the problem was gone. He re added the app to the phone using internal storage the phone doesn’t crash but it drains battery life. I told him to get rid if the app if he wants to Facebook go threw crome. Facebook is nothing but a problem child over the years it’s gotten worse and worse.