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

    • Boz (he/him)@lemmy.one
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      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.

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        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?