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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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always force quit it after I’m done. I wonder if that prevents this. Probably not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.