Want longer iPhone battery life? Delete the Facebook app

We've featured a number of ways to save battery life on your smartphone before, but there may be an easier way to get up to 20% more juice on your iPhone: Stop using the Facebook app.

Following Android Central's discovery last month that the Facebook app could drain Android smartphone batteries by as much as 20%, The Guardian's Samuel Gibbs performed a similar week-long test using an iPhone 6S and found that by removing the app he was able to save up up to 15% in battery life.

Instead of using the Facebook app, Gibbs accessed the social network through the web using the Safari web browser"On average I had 15% more battery," said Gibbs. Facebook Messenger, however, wasn't removed. Read more...