The FACEBOOK app on iPhones was recently reported to have been draining the life out of people's batteries, even when it wasn’t running in the background and even with iOS 9’s new attention to saving your battery life, Facebook was still draining iPhones everywhere.
Facebook, addressed the problem in a post from their engineering manager. The developer, Ari Grant, wrote that Facebook “found a few key issues and have identified additional improvements.”
Grant revealed that part of the problem was the CPU spin in the app’s network code, stating that “A CPU spin is like a child in a car asking, ‘Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?’ with the question not resulting in any progress to reaching the destination.”
Another issue was
the audio sessions created by watching video via the app. It killed batteries too. “If you leave the Facebook app after watching a video, the audio session sometimes stays open as if the app was playing audio silently,” he explained. But that has been fixed too.
the audio sessions created by watching video via the app. It killed batteries too. “If you leave the Facebook app after watching a video, the audio session sometimes stays open as if the app was playing audio silently,” he explained. But that has been fixed too.
He says Facebook has updated its app, and these things have been addressed. So go update your Facebook app! :)
The fix comes over a week after Facebook confirmed that it would be fixing the issue soon. Timely or nah?
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