Facebook iOS app is tracking your every move

Tyler Owen Contributed byon October 18, 2015 at 10:20 am

“If you progress round rather a lot, you’re probably to make use of the extra battery, however, the mixture of Global Positioning System and networking happening within the background is doubtless the bulk reason for battery drain”, Zdziarski was quoted as saying by means of e-mail. The cause of this excessive battery drain hasn’t yet been determined.







According to the CEO of the news app, Circa, the app uses battery life even without being open. A popular one is that the app hijacks iOS 9 audio sessions to keep playing silent audio in the background when a video automatically plays in the app, although disabling video auto-play appears to have no effect on the issue. If you happen to be using the application with the highest amount of frequency compared to all the other apps installed on your iOS device, then it would be a really good idea to read the remaining policy details from Facebook. The bug is becoming a headache for users because it cannot be cured by just disabling background activity, despite the background activity of a few description nearly certainly being the issue. However, it continues to drain battery life from the phone and a few users reported that it consumes 15 percent of the total battery in a week. It confirmed to TechCrunch it is investigating to fix the issue.

“We are not tracking background location if the location setting is off on your device or in the app. We are not collecting background location on iOS unless Location Access is set to Always on your device and you have enabled Location History in the Facebook app”. It’s unclear what the “fix” will do and it’s likely that users will never get to know.

The ideal scenario is that, the Facebook’s iOS app on an iPhone when put into the background should be dormant.

iPhone battery draining more quickly? Blame Facebook, reports say