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Background activity drains battery very fast
Telegram always keeps 1st place among all my apps as a power consumer. During the night it consumes energy exclusively (95-100%).
Same issue. Turning off background app refresh doesn’t help. Telegram drains battery in the background like nothing else.
Still happening with version 5.10. Also noticed that even with background app refresh disabled, telegram background activity for the last 24 hours is almost the same as foreground: fg/bg - 47/50 minutes.
Also still happening on 5.11.1.
This has been a bug for ages now, and we really really need a fix. It's kind of 'amazing' that one app can eat up about 50% of my battery at the end of the day.
I tweeted at Telegram but they won't respond. This issue has been going for a very long time now - but Telegram doesn't seem to care at all.
Maybe we should just open more issues - flood their GitHub project with reports of this.
Battery stats for today:
- 47 minutes in use
- 2 hours and 35 minutes of background activity
- 40% battery usage
Same here on IPhone X and iOS 12. Have someone gathered data regarding the number of public groups / channels and this battery drain? Meaning, would quit some channels help?
I’m really speculating over here, but try to disable background download (it’s in Data and Storage).
I’m really speculating over here, but try to disable background download (it’s in Data and Storage).
Already did that week or two ago, but the issue is still there. For example for the last 24 hours - foreground activity 1h54m, background activity 2h37m. Also turned off gif and video auto play.
Too many factors to consider. It might as well be a push mechanism that drains too much, for example. Or local area chats might access geolocation services too much. I have quite a few channels and group chats with notifications disabled for them. I do allow background activity, but my stats are 31 h on screen and 11.5 h background in last 10 days, yet the consumption is mere 28%. I’m a pretty heavy Telegram user and I don’t have issues with excess battery drain. I’d try to disable every single permission for the app and see if it works. It surely will become practically unusable though.
I don't think us coming up with different ways to possibly work around the problem are very productive. The real problem lies with the developers who seem to refuse to do anything about this problem. I mentioned it on Twitter a couple of times, only to get ignored. This issue has been open for ages now, and if you look around on the internet the issue's been going for much much longer. The only way this problem will get solved is bring it up as much as possible.
My stats in the last 24 hours: On screen 1h44 Background 2h52 Usage 62%
Or local area chats might access geolocation services too much.
I turned off geolocation services for telegram - this didn't help.
I disabled "download in background" (or whatever it's called) in data settings within Telegram. Looks like it helps a bit, but I'll know for sure 24 hours from now.
Issue seems to be ongoing, no matter if "background downloading" is on or off. I did notice it seems to be somewhat tied to Telegram use on other devices - including PC. Notifications go through, but don't get cleared once read on another device.
Disabling 'Download in background' doesn't do anything. Battery usage is still horrible. No response from Telegram at all yet.
Ever since upgrading to iOS 13, my device with telegram is literally a heater in my pocket.
This terrible use of my battery stops, and my device cools down, when I kill telegram, the app.
I join in. Battery usage of this app is incredible, I don't know how it manage to use so much battery in background without having background refresh enabled.
I've killed it and don't use it anymore on iOS, or occasionnaly, then kill the app right after.
I join in. Battery usage of this app is incredible, I don't know how it manage to use so much battery in background without having background refresh enabled.
I've killed it and don't use it anymore on iOS, or occasionnaly, then kill the app right after.
Any alternatives we can use? The official app is a dumpster fire and the dev should be ashamed.
An alternative could be fork a source code and turn off background tasks on a source code level. But that requires some development work to do. (I am not related to telegram team).
The same thing for me: SE, iOS13, latest Telegram. Background activities are killing my battery, two times it was too hot (the same as in benchmarks like antutu) and drained almost all battery in 30 minutes
I have turned all background activities off. After Rebooting the device has normal battery usage, up to point when telegram is first started. Then the battery is draining again.
I have turned all background activities off. After Rebooting the device has normal battery usage, up to point when telegram is first started. Then the battery is draining again.
I can't do this because background activities toggle there is inactive!
On iPhone iOS 13.2.2 :)
I tried to clear cache (5.5Gb) and reinstall app after it drained my SE in only 4 hours. Will report if anything will change
Same issue for me. Telegram is the main app in Battery statistics. Background activity is there even if I disable background from iPhone settings. Same issue on iPad too.
