Yup, Frost was just a wrapper for the mobile site, but it had notifications, dark theme and other trimmings and barely used battery vs. the official app. I’ve been keeping an eye on the official FB app’s battery usage on the new phone and so far in the space of 40% used since I charged my phone to 80% in the morning (with it being 8pm now), there has been no battery consumption from FB at all. This is much better than it used to be. I’m sure when I actively use it it will drain more, but I don’t use it really, only if someone sends me a link or if I need to check birthdays.
It’s the background usage before that was killing me.
Ah, interesting, I didn’t know about Frost. The mobile site has notifications natively though, as long as you’re on a platform that supports web notifications (essentially, everything except iOS)
The mobile site is better for battery than the app.
Yup, Frost was just a wrapper for the mobile site, but it had notifications, dark theme and other trimmings and barely used battery vs. the official app. I’ve been keeping an eye on the official FB app’s battery usage on the new phone and so far in the space of 40% used since I charged my phone to 80% in the morning (with it being 8pm now), there has been no battery consumption from FB at all. This is much better than it used to be. I’m sure when I actively use it it will drain more, but I don’t use it really, only if someone sends me a link or if I need to check birthdays.
It’s the background usage before that was killing me.
Ah, interesting, I didn’t know about Frost. The mobile site has notifications natively though, as long as you’re on a platform that supports web notifications (essentially, everything except iOS)
Ah yeah much more common now, yet I prefer the customisable nature of wrapper notifications. At one point Messenger worked in them too. No longer.