Battery killers

THE WORST apps for draining your Android smartphone’s battery life have been revealed in a new report.

Perhaps, unsurprisingly, highlypopular and feature-rich apps including Facebook, Netflix, WhatsApp and Google Maps all feature in the list.

The report, which was put together by Avast, also identifies the worst apps for hogging data traffic, eating into storage and draining overall performance.

You can improve your phone’s battery life by deleting some of the apps you don’t need.

With Facebook, for instance, you can get rid of the app and use the social network in your web browser instead. You’ll have to keep hold of Messenger though.

Switching from Google Docs, one of the worst apps for affecting overall performance, to Microsoft Word could be sensible too.

Some apps, however, can’t be deleted. In this case, Avast recommends limiting notifications from them and reducing background features, refresh intervals and location data usage.

Meanwhile, here are the 10 worst apps for hogging data traffic, which automatically run when you turn your phone on:

Facebook, Instagram, Yahoo! Japan, Firefox Browser fast & private, The Weather Channel, WhatsApp Messenger, Google Chrome, DU Battery Saver, Facebook Lite and Google Play Home.

The 10 worst apps for hogging data traffic, which users run themselves, are Netflix, Spotify Music, Snapchat, BBC News, LINE: Free Calls & Messages, Microsoft Outlook, Clean Master, Samsung WatchON, Amazon for Tablets, PicsArt Photo Studio & Collage.

If you’re on a limited mobile data plan, the apps listed above are the ones you need to be wary of.

Most worrying is the fact that you don’t even need to have the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Chrome open for them to munch through your data. – The Independent