It can’t be said enough: Uninstalling the Facebook app does some wonderful things for your phone. Last week we pointed to some tests that showed uninstalling Facebook from your Android phone
could improve its battery life by as much as 20% and now there are new
tests that show you can get a similar battery boost by uninstalling the
app from your iPhone. Specifically, The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs
has found that “uninstalling Facebook’s iOS app and switching to Safari
can save up to 15% of iPhone battery life.”
Gibbs
recorded his typical battery life for a week before uninstalling the
Facebook app and then using Safari to access the social networking
website online. After a week of using the phone without the Facebook iOS
app installed, he discovered that his battery performance was on
average 15% better and he had a lot more storage on his device as well.
“At
the point I had deleted the Facebook app it had consumed around 500MB
in total combining the 111MB of the app itself and its cache on the
iPhone,” he explains. It goes without saying that you won’t have that
particular issue if you just access Facebook through Safari.
Best
of all, Facebook’s mobile site lets you do almost everything you can do
through its mobile app, although some features such as Instant Articles
aren’t available. Even so, if you aren’t a heavy Facebook user and you
want to give your iPhone an instant battery boost, uninstalling the
Facebook iOS app seems like a prudent move.
