Twitter/X using loads of battery in backgound - anyone else?
Twitter/X using loads of battery in backgound - anyone else?
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gmaz

Original Poster:

5,395 posts

240 months

Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Is anyone else seeing this? Since Space Karen updated Twitter to X it is using massive amounts of battery in the background and I'm having to charge my iPhone 12 twice a day.

That's 123 hours of battery usage in the last 5 days.


dudleybloke

20,553 posts

216 months

Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Is he mining doge on them?
smile

durbster

12,098 posts

252 months

Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Dunno. I saw the rebranding and decided it was fine to uninstall it.

I didn't fancy being an unpaid beta tester for a billionaire, partially because the approach has been to rush out stupid, ill-considered, and untested features, which could easily lead to problems like this.

Baldchap

9,627 posts

122 months

Wednesday 9th August 2023
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Since sacking his marketing team he's really shown himself for what he is.

mmm-five

12,382 posts

314 months

Wednesday 9th August 2023
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You disable background updates (to save both data and power) on an app-by-app basis.

pills

1,822 posts

267 months

Thursday 10th August 2023
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Useful, thanks, I wondered why mine had been chewing through battery power over the last few days!

x5tuu

12,787 posts

217 months

Thursday 10th August 2023
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It was doing the same on my 13PM - deleted it and made a noticeable difference

Silverbullet767

11,304 posts

236 months

Thursday 10th August 2023
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Twitter can be used on a browser if you need to use it in the meantime.

Suspicious_user

4,234 posts

223 months

Saturday 12th August 2023
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Only 28m background over the last 10 days for me.