It goes for other phones as well.  I ditched the app a while back as they kept trying to push separate apps for chat and such and generally just because I don&#x27;t read Facebook that often.<p>Switched over to a third party app called &quot;Tinfoil for Facebook&quot; which essentially just puts the mobile site in a sandboxed and somewhat optimized wrapper for easy mobile browsing.  Battery improved as you&#x27;d expect by getting rid of one program that does a decent amount of stuff in the background.  Nothing massive but it did make a difference.<p>That said, I feel like disabling a lot of things would improve battery life but depending on the apps in question, battery life may not matter much if you can&#x27;t use the app.  It&#x27;s more an overarching effort I&#x27;ve made to only install dedicated apps for things that I really use enough to need a dedicated app.  Since I only check Facebook 2 or 3 times during a typical week it didn&#x27;t seem to be very important for me to keep their app(s).  I can still check it out every so often when I&#x27;m bored and want to see what people are up to but I don&#x27;t have yet another background app taking up resources or battery capacity.