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SuperSecretAgentMan t1_j6ds2le wrote

Reply to comment by nicuramar in Facebook secretly killed users batteries, worker claims in lawsuit by tyteen4a03

The fb app literally keeps the phone in audio streaming mode by playing a blank audio stream so it can maintain a constant background state. There were articles posted about it years ago.

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nicuramar t1_j6eihbl wrote

> There were articles posted about it years ago.

The key point is “years ago”, but you used the present tense in your comment. Why? This bug (or not, whatever may be the case) was removed years ago as well.

So no, it literally doesn’t do that.

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nomorerainpls t1_j6euc7o wrote

People here love to tell you how technology works and why companies do what they do.

Also, Reddit technology is perfect and Reddit is perfect company.

Giant echo chamber.

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sirzoop t1_j6fmjhd wrote

Reddit is as bad as Facebook and Twitter.

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whateverisok t1_j6f3y6h wrote

Not on iOS - if you're playing audio, iOS will show the audio/music streaming notification when you switch apps/lock the phone

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slinky317 t1_j6evd8x wrote

This may be how it happened in the past, but now Android will tell you if something is running in the background. Facebook doesn't ever come up.

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bigtimephonk t1_j6ierfp wrote

This helped me figure out that Imgur refused to close. Great feature.

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DJ_Willy_Will t1_j6h6ceo wrote

This happened back in 2012 or 2013 on one of the FB app releases. I remember bc a friend had just gotten their first iPhone, a 3GS, and the battery kept draining. Nothing but stock apps and FB were installed on it.

Went to Apple to get it replaced and the same thing happened to the replacement phone. Apple replaced it again, and it did the same thing.

Apple ended up giving them an iPhone 4 and it still kept on happening. Once he removed FB, the battery issue disappeared. Years later, we find out about that inaudible audio file playing in the background and was legit the same timeframe of his battery issues.

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WailersOnTheMoon t1_j6jvydk wrote

This is incredibly obnoxious. I’m still on Facebook because we don’t live near our families and our kids’ schools and teams use it to communicate, and any time I’m on Facebook it shuts down Spotify, which wouldn’t be as terrible if any notifications I received after that point weren’t deafeningly loud.

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