Iphone Facebook App Vs Safari

Facebook continued its attack on apple this week telling reuters that apple rejected its attempt to tell users the iphone maker would take a 30 cut of sales in a new online events feature.

Iphone facebook app vs safari. The primary reason why most of the people often opt for mobile browser to access facebook instead of facebook app is it consumes a lot of memory and battery. Safari facebook page use 40 50 cpu when scrolling on news feed page in facebook. Facebook app uses about 75 cpu when scrolling on news feed page in facebook.

Gibbs spent a week comparing battery usage when using the app against a week using facebook s mobile site in safari finding that he averaged 15 more remaining battery life at the end of each day. Facebook s android and iphone apps aren t great. In other words facebook app is a battery killer.

Safari is a moore green energy for your iphone than facebook app. Rather than put up with the awful app you can use facebook s fairly full featured mobile site instead. Cpu uassage on facebook app.

The iphone app is slightly less of a battery hog but compared to using facebook on safari it s almost as bad as the android version. One less reason to use the facebook app and one more reason using safari isn t a compromise. The iphone app has had bugs that cause it to drain battery in the background and it could be using up to 20 of your battery on android what s more facebook once even reportedly made its android app crash on purpose once.

Now if you are using facebook in any browser for mobile you can find two different things. It also sits there collecting as much personal data as it can about you and i know nothing is private anymore but the less and less easy you make it the better it is for me. Safari i don t trust fb app.

However you can also use facebook in browser. The latest version scrolls very smoothly even on my old iphone 3gs. Other features will allow users to.