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"The second issue is with how we manage audio sessions. If you leave the Facebook app after watching a video, the audio session sometimes stays open as if the a
by jobu 11y ago
"The second issue is with how we manage audio sessions. If you leave the Facebook app after watching a video, the audio session sometimes stays open as if the app was playing audio silently. This is similar to when you close a music app and want to keep listening to the music while you do other things, except in this case it was unintentional and nothing kept playing. The app isn't actually doing anything while awake in the background, but it does use more battery simply by being awake. Our fixes will solve this audio issue and remove background audio completely."
So after all the accusations of Facebook exploiting background audio to steal cycles for downloading content or tracking people's location it's just another case of Hanlon's Razor.
- bsbechtel 11y agoTo be fair, accusations tend to fly faster when trust in maintaining users privacy has been previously eroded. When there is goodwill built up, people tend to be more forgiving.
- jonknee 11y agoCombined with auto-playing videos to make the bug a ton more pronounced.
- coherentpony 11y agoI deleted the facebook app because of this horseplay. Auto-playing videos I don't care about is not ok.
- needcaffeine 11y agoThere's a setting that tells your Facebook app to not autoplay videos.
- jonknee 11y agoDeleting the app is a very reliable setting as well.
- sjm 11y agoI actually looked for this and couldn't find it. Where is it? Should definitely be more obvious, unless I'm completely missing something :)
- needcaffeine 11y agoMore > Settings > Account Settings > Videos and Photos Autoplay: Never Autoplay Videos
- eridius 11y agoTo be fair, it's hard to imagine that a company as massive as Facebook, with an application that's got probably the highest install rate on iPhone of any app not shipped on the device, would be so mind-numbingly stupid as to overlook such a prevalent battery-draining issue as this for so long.