iOS app using a lot of data and battery?

[mistysj 1,939]

Hi all. Is anyone else finding that the iOS app chews through data and battery like crazy? For instance I have been on it on my iPad for a couple hours this morning and it has gone from 100% to 75%. When I'm not using the app, I would get several more hours of usage before seeing 75%. The iPad 3's battery is huge.

Also when I was in the hospital I was checking in a lot on my phone. There was no wifi so I was on 3G. I burned through over 250 MB in two days. Usually it is unusual to use more than 500 mb in a whole month. I have the data to use and have not generated overages, but it makes me try to avoid using the app as much when I'm not on wifi.

I could just use the website, but it is full of ads. I wish there was a paid membership where you wouldn't have to see the ads. I would pay a couple bucks a month for this site and I think it would more than offset any ad revenue generated by my page views.

[O.T.R. sleever 3,386]

The app itself really doesn't use much battery, the fact that the 10" Retina Display is on for multiple hours straight is what's burning through your battery.

[mistysj 1,939]

The app itself really doesn't use much battery' date=' the fact that the 10" Retina Display is on for multiple hours straight is what's burning through your battery.[/quote']

I would agree but I do hours of reading on it and it doesn't use the same amount of battery. I also have the screen on half brightness.

[mistysj 1,939]

I would agree but I do hours of reading on it and it doesn't use the same amount of battery. I also have the screen on half brightness.

However I just remembered that I installed Google Now yesterday and notice that location services were active. I suspect that may be it. I have disabled it to see what happens. However this doesn't address the data usage when I was in the hospital.

[O.T.R. sleever 3,386]

I would agree but I do hours of reading on it and it doesn't use the same amount of battery. I also have the screen on half brightness.

Are you on an LTE (4G) connection?

[Chris R 217]

I recently had a major problem with the battery on my phone draining way too quickly right after my OS updated on my Motorola Razor phone. They had me uninstall all of my Zinga apps because the new OS didn't communicate well with them , and told me I shouldn't re-download them until they're updated to be compatible with the new OS. This helped a little, but my battery was still dying from a full charge in about 8 hours, so they replaced my phone. Fortunately, it was still under warranty.

[Suko67 52]

Hi all. Is anyone else finding that the iOS app chews through data and battery like crazy? For instance I have been on it on my iPad for a couple hours this morning and it has gone from 100% to 75%. When I'm not using the app' date=' I would get several more hours of usage before seeing 75%. The iPad 3's battery is huge.

Also when I was in the hospital I was checking in a lot on my phone. There was no wifi so I was on 3G. I burned through over 250 MB in two days. Usually it is unusual to use more than 500 mb in a whole month. I have the data to use and have not generated overages, but it makes me try to avoid using the app as much when I'm not on wifi.

I could just use the website, but it is full of ads. I wish there was a paid membership where you wouldn't have to see the ads. I would pay a couple bucks a month for this site and I think it would more than offset any ad revenue generated by my page views.[/quote']

YES!! I noticed that using this app is draining my iPhone 4s battery very much!

I thought my iPhone was being funky...but the draining of the battery and use of the VST app do correlate with each other

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