Users of Android they usually have many apps downloaded and that they use in their day to day. However, some of these applications can be consuming our battery quickly and, sometimes, without even realizing it.
It is known that apps that play videos or games tend to use up our battery quickly. This is because the equipment, when you use these applications, are working at all times because they seek to maintain the quality of the reproduction. Nevertheless, some apps do not have these features or are not used constantly, but they still consume our battery.
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These ‘vampire’ apps, as they are often called, they drain the energy of our Android device by staying open in the background. That is, despite the fact that we have closed them, continue to be used without us noticing and at all times.
Have you ever wondered how WhatsApp or Instagram send you notifications if you have the app closed? Simple, they are in a background use, so even though you have closed them, they continue to work to notify you of the news you have configured. The problem comes when they are apps that we do not usually use much, because they are consuming for no reason. Although most current smartphones are designed so that these applications do not consume much, it is better if we simply do not have them activated anywhere.
In addition to this, we have tools that are constantly working, but we don’t need to use them every moment, like GPS or Bluetooth. However, only in older versions they usually consume a lot of battery.
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How to know which apps are rapidly consuming my battery?
1. Open ‘Settings’ and look for the ‘Battery’ section.
2. Press ‘Battery usage’ and you will see a list of the applications that consume the most battery, as well as the flow by hours during the day.
3. Find which apps are draining your battery fast and choose the ones you don’t want to keep using in the background.
4. You can force these to stop. You just have to click on the name and then touch ‘Forced stop’. In this way, you will be able to close the app completely, since it will not work in the background either.