I’ve been splitting time between Lemmy and Reddit since Apollo shut down. I’ve been using the official Reddit mobile app.

I just looked at my battery stats and holy cow. It ate 40% of a full charge in 2 hours of screen time. I’m not an app developer, but that seems…bad

  • Blimey85@lemmy.fmhy.ml
    61·
    1 year ago

    TikTok is like that but it’s loading videos continuously so it makes more sense that it would use a lot. I never noticed significant battery drain with Apollo.

    • TheEmpireStrikesDak@thelemmy.club
      10·
      1 year ago

      There was a post on the mildlyinfuriating sub where someone had tiktok installed but hadn’t loaded it in like a month or something, but it had used a full 2GB of data. Tiktok does more than load videos.

        • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
          1·
          1 year ago

          Almost certainly not. I think if an app gets the right permissions on installation, it doesn’t have to be officially running to take data and send it to the company.

          • Otakat@reddthat.com
            1·
            1 year ago

            I just checked my TikTok app, and it doesn’t request any special permissions and specifically has mic, camera, contacts, etc blocked.

            Does anyone else have their TikTok app requesting unreasonable permissions?