The app that everyone uses and kills your mobile phone battery Study warns against it
We are facing an old debate: which applications consume the most battery on mobile? In the Houhou Informatics blog, we have already devoted several articles to this topic, but a new study allows us to analyze in depth the music streaming applications that cause you to consume the battery of your smartphones.
Spotify or Apple Music? YouTube Music or SoundCloud? No matter which one you use, you probably chose it because of the many options it gives you and its vast catalog of songs. Ultimately, we all have our own preferences, usually for reasons like their interface or their pricing plans. I’m a huge Spotify fan, for example, and it’s compatible with all types of devices, but this study might make me reconsider using it.
A new study by Nationwide Vehicle Contracts has analyzed the data and given us this important information about which of the most popular music streaming apps drains your phone's battery the fastest, which for many can be a turning point when choosing between Spotify, Apple Music, or any other app.
The study's authors analyzed all the data permissions for the top 100 music streaming apps on the App Store to give us an idea of which ones are consuming the most, and unfortunately, Spotify is one of the worst apps to use if you want to save your phone's battery, especially compared to Apple Music, although it's not the worst by far.
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According to the study data, shown in this table, YouTube received a battery usage score of 15 and accesses 54 percent of your user data. In contrast, Apple Music received a battery usage score of 11 and accesses 39 percent of your user data. However, the worst music app (in terms of battery) you can use on your phone is Audiomack, another free app designed to download all kinds of albums, songs, and playlists to your phone for offline listening.
Others to appear on the list are SoundCloud, TuneIN Radio, and Pandora, with YouTube Music tied on points with Apple Music.