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Today world is booming with a large number of both the smartphones and subsequently, several companies that promise to give its users an over-the-top experience in their respective OS are too on a constant rise. Today smartphones come equipped majorly with Android, iOS or Windows 10 operating systems by default out of which Android platform gives its users the highest possibility of customizing their smartphones. As the number of applications increase, the performance starts wearing down with time and before the user can put a stop, he's welcomed by a "Low Memory" pop-up subsequently.
This is frustrating and it's not an issue of just one Android application, but a number of other applications that hog down the memory and mobile data of the smartphone without user's knowledge. Recently, even Facebook got accused of draining the user data, battery and other resources and looks like the number of such apps are countless. A new study from Opera finds that even WhatsApp accounts for a significant data drainage.
In its reports, Opera has given specifics that most of the apps waste a random share of mobile data in the background, and to prevent the same misuse, it has brought forward an update to its data-saving app for Android dubbed the Opera Max. The application will help users set a defined limit on the background data consumption of apps alongside notifying them the individual app consumption through Smart Alerts. The company has set the limit for now as 10MB per week. The Smart Alerts show up inside Opera Max as a card in the Data usage timeline, a card in App management, as well as in the OS notification bar.
Sergey Lossev, Product Manager at Opera Software said, "Most apps are made to give a great user experience, not to save data. If you fetch background data through your data plan, it's like throwing away $1 out of every $3 you spend on your mobile data plan. Most people are not aware of this background data drain and may not have authorised it, nor do they know how to stop it from happening."
Opera says that it has found 30 percent of all mobile data usage is consumed by apps syncing in the background. The company adds that Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp and Gmail drain are among the apps that utilise a lot of data in the background out of which Facebook Messenger and Gmail account for 73 percent of the total usage happening in the background. They are further accompanied by other apps like Google Drive and Google Hangouts. Opera explains that apps sip Internet data in the background to keep their content updated, and fetch ads among other things by default. The user has no ways to put a stop to this drainage except complaining about it.
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