Switzerland-based cloud storage company pCloud analysed the applications each app uses, the battery these applications use, and whether dark mode is available
Switzerland-based cloud storage company pCloud analysed 100 of the most popular apps and the demands they make on your device.
The worst apps for draining battery were found to be Fitbit and Verizon, which were at the top of the list with a score of 92 out of 100, followed by Uber and Skype.
In joint fifth place was Facebook, Airbnb and live streaming platform BIGO LIVE – all with a score of 82 out of 100.
Also in the top 10 were Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and Amazon, as well as dating apps Tinder, Bumble and Grindr.
With 93 per cent of smartphone users admitting to using apps daily, our phone batteries are starting to suffer, leaving us phoneless by the end of the day, said pCloud in a blog post. We wanted to find out the apps that are the most demanding on our phone, so conducted a study to discover which apps are the secret phone killers.
pCloud analysed three factors – the applications each app uses, such as location or camera, the battery these applications use, and whether dark mode is available.
Dark mode gives users the option to turn the background of their app interface from white to black to make it easier on the eye and save up to 30 per cent more battery power on a phone.
The top two – Fitbit and Verizon – were found to permit 14 out of the 16 available features to run in the background, including the four most demanding (camera, location, microphone and Wi-Fi connection).
Six out of the top 20 battery drainers were social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, WhatsApp and LinkedIn.
Twitter, one of the social media giants, was notably absent from the top 20, coming in at number 25.
pCloud also looked at the apps taking up the most memory, based on the average phone holding up to 64GB of inbuilt storage, and the operating system roughly taking up to 10GB.
United Airlines was found to be the worst in this category, followed by ridesharing services Lyft and Uber.
Fitbit and Facebook were also in the top five for this category.
Meanwhile, food delivery apps Uber Eats, My Mcdonalds and Yelp Food all made it in the top 30.