Top 5 Performance Killing Apps You Need to Delete Today
Your device's performance and battery life. Well, that's enough - it's time to clean your smartphone. Here are five apps that should be deleted immediately.
1. Apps that claim to save RAM
Apps running in the background consume your RAM and use battery life, even if they are in standby mode. The idea behind apps that claim to boost your memory is to systematically close these background apps. Unfortunately, most of these useful apps usually exacerbate the very problem they are trying to solve.
How much memory you need depends on how you use your smartphone
Applications running in the background must restart after you close them. Memory and battery life are used to restart apps, and this constant shutdown and restart of apps can make your phone unstable. So, these memory-saving apps don't make any sense. Moreover, Android manages RAM usage automatically and knows when the app is running or not, so third-party apps are not necessary.
It's good to keep Android clean – but don't rely on third-party apps for that. © NextPit
2. Clean Master (or any cleaning app)
Cleaning apps promise to clean your phone to boost performance. Although it is true that deleted applications sometimes leave some cached data, it is not necessary to download a dedicated cleaner. Simply go to Settings > Storage> and click Cached data. At the Clear Cached Data prompt, press OK.
Alternatively, you can clear the cache of individual apps by going to Settings> Apps> Downloaded and clicking on an app. On the next page, click Clear Cache.
Clean Master and similar apps often require a significant amount of battery power, and their in-app ads can take a significant portion of the monthly data allowance. Remove these apps as soon as possible.
Cleaner apps can do more harm than good. Most Android phones come with a native version of cleaning apps these days/© NextPit
3. Use Lite versions of social media apps
Social media apps take a long time in front of the screen on our smartphones. The more time you spend on it, the more impact it will have on battery life. Social media apps are also known for their high battery consumption even when not in use. The solution to this problem may be to use browser versions of these applications. Many of these apps also come with the "Lite" version of their resource-free app. A good example of this is Facebook which offers the very effective Facebook Lite app.
Uninstalling the resource-hungry Facebook app will speed up your smartphone and improve your device's performance. Since the app has been blamed for everything that falls under the sun, from high memory consumption, staying active in the background, demanding permissions to high mobile data consumption.
If you really want to keep using Facebook but don't want to install any app, you can use the mobile site and add a shortcut on the home screen. Thus, when you close the Facebook web tab, the site will no longer use your phone's resources (battery, data plan, etc.).
In case you didn't know, there's a lightweight version of Instagram as well – called Instagram Lite. However, the availability of these apps depends on where you live.
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Are you going to delete Facebook? / © Shutterstock, AndroidPIT
4. Hard to delete the manufacturer's bloatware
While this problem isn't as bad as it used to be, smartphone brands continue to sell their phones with a lot of unnecessary bloatware. These apps can range from questionable hotel booking apps, games, or office apps that take up a lot of storage space. In some cases, these apps can also affect battery life. In older Android versions, many of these apps didn't even give you an option to uninstall them.
However, thanks to constant (negative) user feedback, most manufacturers have heard your pleas and now allow you to uninstall these applications. Even if you don't see an option to uninstall, you can still disable or force these apps to be stopped.
The easiest way to do this is to grab the app in question in the app drawer and then drag it to the app info icon. You will then see if the app is not installable or not can only be deactivated. Below, we show you how to disable or force stopping an uninstallable app on a Samsung device.
This is how you can disable or force the suspension of an uninstallable application/© NextPit
Some sellers will not allow you to uninstall Facebook, Twitter or other social networks on your smartphone. This is annoying for users who don't care about social media or those who don't need the app to take up space on their devices. After all, in many cases, a mobile site is enough.
One of the remedies is to purchase smartphones from manufacturers that allow uninstalling bloatware - for example, Huawei and Honor. Or buy smartphones that come with only a few third-party apps, such as Google, Motorola, or Nokia.
If you are already stuck with a phone with a lot of bloatware, take a look at our detailed article that deals with this nuisance.
5. Battery cases
Similar to RAM boosters, battery-saving apps are often a load of garbage. These apps offer a solution to one of the world's most hated smartphone problems and promise miracles. There are only a few exceptions to the fact that battery-saving applications are just billboards disguised as useful applications.
To really increase battery life, you have to reduce the power demand from the operating system and all running services and applications. For energy-efficient apps to be effective, you will need to control the operation of Android. But since Android cannot be controlled without root privileges, the apps available in the Play Store simply cannot intervene and control. At best, apps can advise or warn you when you're chewing too many Energon bricks, but that's all there is to it. If you close power-hungry apps, those apps will probably reopen automatically anyway. Thus, the effect is reversed, and energy consumption can already increase.
Alternative? Open your battery settings and check what's going on. Google is much better at managing this for you. Turning on Adaptive Battery will also help to get a great deal of power because it will limit the battery for applications you rarely use.
Turn on Adaptive Battery lifes when you are running Android 10 or above/© NextPit
What other Android apps should I uninstall?
Consider removing any app you don't use or any app that seems to cause significant battery drain or consume a lot of data. You can check which apps have the most impact on the last two things by going to the Battery settings page or the Data usage page in the settings menu. There are often alternatives to energy-hungry apps that you use regularly, so try one of these, and it may grow as much knitting as the original app.
What Android apps do you think should be uninstalled?
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