The battery of our Android mobile phone is an essential part for its operation and as you probably know, one aspect that we should protect it from in the summer is now its enemy: heat. Excessive high temperatures are harmful to your health, curtailment of autonomy provides to the device.

Apart from this, the use we make of the phone also has a direct impact on the hours the screen is active, and in this sense, There are apps that are real battery drainers. In my case, when I go to the “Battery” section, among the most “gluttonous” there are several that are repeated every day: social networks. I removed them and barely noticed them because it’s so easy to continue using them.

Is there an app that likes to drain your battery? It’s easy to change

It is common to create specific addiction to some applicationsIt is not surprising that these allow better use of services such as social networks. However, depending on the amount of data they carry and how well (or poorly) developed they are, they sometimes cause battery drain that reduces the autonomy of your Android smartphone.

This is true for some applications such as: excitement (sorry, X) and Facebook, which usually dominates the battery drain list effortlessly. Not that I’m a regular on Zuckerberg’s channel, but I usually come back every day to take a look; I check good old Musk’s platform more often.

What’s the score? At the end of the day, both of these represent a pretty big waste of energy, and combined with other battery-draining components like the GPS, antennas, or the display, they’re causing me a huge headache. fair autonomy to finish the day.

The solution is through a button: the “Remove” button. And the best thing is that we don’t actually lose anything. In both platforms I usually comment and review the content of my contacts, nothing special and I only use the browser for that. In fact I have created shortcuts on the home screen, which makes accessing them much faster.

Did I lose something along the way? Maybe some habits of movements that the app has and the website doesn’t, but nothing more. On the other hand, I gained a little more autonomy. Before I forget to storeit was also alleviated after uninstalling two apps. Cache memory has a lot to do with it and they tend to accumulate more and more ‘megabytes’.

As if that weren’t enough, it is also possible to activate it. browser notifications so that both X and Facebook notify me of new alerts. I don’t want them? They can be disabled very easily. As we see we have the same thing, the sacrifices are minimal.

In the web version of X, I have the bottom bar that allows you to navigate between different sections, and even the “For you” and “Following” tabs. Private messages also do not disappear, and with the battery increasing, It’s getting harder to go back.

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Xataka on Android | If you have an Android phone and charge it overnight, this trick will help you maintain the battery.