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Facebook has been hit with fresh accusations that its mobile app negatively affects users' smartphones and disproportionately drains the batteries.
The battery life issue previously hit iPhone owners, after the iOS9 battery meter feature revealed to many users that Facebook tended to be their most battery-intensive app, even if they didn't use it that much.
Now, the same worries have spread over to the Android community, after a Reddit user took a detailed look into how Facebook affects Android devices.
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Inspired by an article by well-known Android blogger Russell Holly, who wrote about the virtues of deleting the Facebook app, Redditor pbrandes_eth conducted a few tests with an LG G4 Android smartphone, to check how the Facebook app affected the device's performance.
Using a 'benchmarking' app to keep tabs on performance and speed, they checked how long it took to launch 15 apps, first with the Facebook and Messenger apps installed, and then without.
Repeating this 15 times and averaging the results, they found that apps opened on the phone 15 per cent faster when Facebook and Messenger were not installed, compared to when they were.