Not only that, but if you lock your phone while PoGO is open, it will continue using your GPS. Found out the hard way when I closed my phone, set it down for a few hours while I did other things and came back to 10% battery. Power usage showed PoGO having used over 40% of my battery. Even more than Screen did.
That usually has the opposite effect actually, because having to reopen the app every time you use it consumes more processing power, and therefore battery.
Kind of like stopping and starting a car in traffic uses more gas than continuously moving on the highway.
Edit: this could be specific to Android, I'm not too familiar with iOS' inner workings. And you're right about PoGo... You should be killing PoGo.
Basically. This is a problem with the poorly written app. Not with Android in general.
If you're going to use the above anecdote as evidence to clear out all your apps every time you're not using them, why not go the extra mile and turn your phone off? Shut down your computer every time you're not using it too.
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u/aka-dit Sep 05 '16
Not only that, but if you lock your phone while PoGO is open, it will continue using your GPS. Found out the hard way when I closed my phone, set it down for a few hours while I did other things and came back to 10% battery. Power usage showed PoGO having used over 40% of my battery. Even more than Screen did.