Ever wondered which apps drain the most amount of battery on your smartphone? Well, you would be surprised to know that many apps you may have ignored earlier are the biggest culprits. While both Apple and Google have been tweaking their respective OS to help users conserve battery life, there are some apps that still end up being power-hungry. 

Cloud storage company pCloud decided to test out some of the most popular apps and found the worst battery hogs. Apps like Tinder and Uber were found to be the biggest culprits amongst many others. The company explained in its summary that it set out to determine which apps were draining the battery the most as well as throttling the performance of devices. 

“When looking at which apps are the most demanding on our phones, we (analyzed) three things,” pCloud notes. “The applications each app uses, such as location or camera, the battery these applications use and whether dark mode is available. By combining the results of these three factors, we were able to calculate which of the 100 most popular apps are the most demanding and crown them the ultimate phone killers.” 

Apps that drain the most battery happen to be dating and social media apps. Apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Linkedin, YouTube and WhatsApp were amongst the top 20 biggest culprits. If you want to know apps that are the biggest culprits, check out this infographic shared by pCloud. 

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In addition to these apps, pCloud also published 50 secret phone “killing” apps which have been illustrated in the infographic below. 

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For its conclusions, pCloud used a methodology that checks which apps demand the most permissions from a smartphone at any given time. “Each “demand” e.g. Wifi was then weighted based on its perceived battery consumption to give a weighted total demand. If an app had access to a larger total of battery draining permissions, it would be ranked highly as a phone killer,” pCloud said in its findings.

Source: pCloud

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