[December 21, 2016] |
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Avast Unveils Top Ten Apps Draining Your Android Phone
What do Tinder, Snapchat, Spotify (News - Alert), and Wattpad all have in common?
Avast, the leader in digital security products for consumers and
businesses, found they are all top performance drainers on Android
phones when run by users, according to the Avast Android App Performance
& Trend Report for Q3
2016. Avast calculated the total performance drain of the Android
apps on people's phones by combining their impact on battery life,
storage capacity and data plan usage to reveal the top 20 greediest
apps. News apps Daily Mail Online and ynet were two of the new entrants
in the charts this quarter, joining regulars Facebook (News - Alert), Instagram and
messaging app WhatsCall in the top ten chart for greediest apps that run
automatically on a phone.
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Apps that run automatically on your Android phone, at start-up, can be a top performance drainer, according to the latest report by Avast. (Photo: Business Wire)
A number of new apps also entered the top ten charts in this quarter for
the first time, including:
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Musical.ly: with an estimated 150 million teens lip-syncing to
the latest tunes, musical.ly has been a massive hit. However, in
internal tests, it only took two hours to drain a fully charged
battery when watching clips back-to-back. Spending a few minutes
watching 25 clips back to back also drained 100MB of data; doing this
every day for a month would exceed 3GB of data, which is more than the
average user data plan. It also consumed the most storage space on
smartphones taking the umber one position as the heaviest storage hog.
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WhatsCall: a relatively new competitor to Skype (News - Alert), this app
drains smartphones with its ongoing background activity, even if you
are not making calls. This app also ranked 6th for the top data
plan/traffic consuming apps.
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Wattpad: it's likely this app has found itself third overall
because of its notifications and followers features, which constantly
check for new books.
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Jehovah's Witness: this official app produced by Jehovah's
Witnesses was the heaviest user of smartphone storage. It allows users
to download their Bible (in all languages) and browse a library of
video tutorials and introductions in high-resolution. All this rich,
multimedia content comes at a cost - our tests indicated around 2GB
for downloading the scripture and 3GB for watching the introduction
videos.
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TayuTau Pedometer: fitness fanatics may have found their phones
got a workout too after using this pedometer app, ranking at number 7.
Internal tests showed a 50 minute run drained the battery by 31%, and
even a five minute walked caused a 3% drain, with the screen mostly
off.
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Notable mentions: Tinder was in the top ten for both data
plan/traffic drainers and battery drainers. OLX Classifieds, which
previously dropped out of the rankings altogether in Q2 2015,
re-emerged in the top 10 battery drainers category. The apps for two
national UK newspapers, Daily Mail and The Guardian ranked among the
top storage eaters and data plan/traffic drainers respectively.
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Most improved: a number of apps had improved their performance
enough to drop out of the top 10 charts this quarter: these included
messaging apps ChatOn, Kik Messenger, WhatsApp and WeChat, as well as
SoundCloud, Mozilla (News - Alert) Browser and BBC iPlayer.
Gagan Singh, SVP and GM Mobile Business, Avast, said, "With smartphones
taking center stage in our digital lives, people's expectations are not
only to be safe online, but to have a great experience. Our research
helps us identify all of the challenges our customers are facing in
using their mobile devices and allows us to provide useful insights and
advice. These app performance charts are a great example of helping
users understand how they can manage their app usage thoughtfully in
order to get the most out of their devices, without limiting enjoyment
of their favorite apps."
An all-in-one cleaner and optimizer like AVG
CleanerTM for AndroidTM, an Avast product, can
help keep tabs on the top mobile resource-hogging apps on your devices.
The full report can be downloaded here.
Methodology
The AVG App Report was gathered from a sample of aggregated and
anonymized data from more than 3 million Android users around the
globe. The app data included in this report covers a time period of July
2016 through September 2016 and only includes Google (News - Alert) Play applications
where AVG observed a minimum sample size of 50,000 usage incidents.
About Avast
Avast Software (http://www.avast.com),
the global leader in digital security products for consumers and
businesses, protects over 400 million people online. Avast offers
products under the Avast and AVG brands that address threats from the
internet with one of the most advanced threat detection network in the
world. Avast digital security products for Mobile, PC or Mac are
top-ranked and certified by VB100, AV-Comparatives, AV-Test, OPSWAT,
ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs and others.
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