Each quarter, Avast surveys which applications affect the performance of Android phones most. Taking advantage of the fact that we are living in the time of year when we commit to following some goals for the next year, how about starting by uninstalling evil at the root?
We all know the importance of good performance on a smartphone, especially if we can’t change devices every year. It turns out that in many cases, what has been causing system slowness or even high energy consumption is not even the soon period of use of the device, but the applications that we have installed on the device.
There are applications that can have a very negative impact on the performance of a cell phone and Avast offers us at least three lists on which we can rely on to find the real bad guys of poor performance. Some of them are heavy, others consume more memory and processor resources, and others simply suck all the juice out of the battery. Anyway, there are apps that shouldn’t be on your device.
The games
I confess, from this list of games I don’t have an application installed on my smartphone, but I have a cousin and, yes, this consumes a lot of energy from my smartphone. Candy Crush Soda is almost a necessary evil. I’m at level 513 and it’s getting harder and harder to remove this app, because now I have missions and I’m competing with a friend who has already reached level 1056.
- Puzzle & Dragons
- Line: Disney Tsum Tsum
- Clash Royale
- Caso criminal
- Hay Day
- Boom Beach
- clash of clans
- Bubble Witch 2 Saga
- candy Crush Saga
- Words With Friends
Apps opened by the user
Snapchat, Spotify, Google Spreadsheet and The Guardian are on my smartphone and I use them often. In fact, after seeing this list, one of them will dance, because as I use Twitter a lot to inform me, The Guardian is no longer accessed as well, so, new year, new life for my smartphone too.
- Snapchat
- Spotify
- Free Books – Wattpad
- LINE
- Amazon Shopping
- Tinder
- SmartNews
- Clean Master
- Google Spreadsheets
- The Guardian
Apps that open on their own
This topic is the most interesting of all, as it shows which villains are hidden, sucking the energy from your Android. You may not notice, but when you receive notifications from Facebook or Messenger, your device’s features are being used.
On my phone I have Facebook, Google Maps and Facebook Messenger, for example, and one thing you can be sure of, when my device overheats or has lags, it’s because one of these services is running in the background. So I turned off background notifications and updates for these apps.
- Musical.ly
- Google Maps
- WhatsCall
- Daily Mail Online
- Ynet
- BBM
- Facebook Page Manager
- Facebook Messenger
So, which of these apps do you have on your smartphone? Will removing or what they offer pays for the drop in device performance?
