New tool can save up to 16 per cent battery on iPhone, Android

So if you are using a lot of Facebook and rarely use Twitter, why not suppress the latter and save on battery? Till date, it was difficult to manage this process, but a new app will help you automate it and save battery in the long run. The app will prioritize only the apps that you frequently use and suppress the ones when the screen goes off. The tool will actually kill the apps that run in the background when the phone is asleep.

According to the The Telegraph, researchers state that almost 46 per cent of your smartphone’s battery is drained even when your screen is off. The culprit—unwanted apps running in the RAM and using up precious power and data.

Hush, a new app under development, has been tested with almost 2,000 Samsung Galaxy S3 and S4 across 191 mobile operators and 61 countries. The study also revealed that almost 18 per cent of the battery drain is caused when the smartphone goes into a maintenance mode, such as periodic Wi-Fi scanning and cellular paging. This study also helped discover a bug in Android that causes apps to drain unnecessary power. The app is being built keeping a bigger picture in mind—to try double the battery life on a smartphone.

With a possibility of saving almost 16 per cent of battery power, the smartphone can run for an additional one-sixth of its time.

The app is presently available only to developers. On the other hand, Apple and Google are also implementing low-power modules in their upcoming operating systems. There could be a high chance of Hush being implemented into their tools. Hush may not be available as a standalone app, but it is too early to comment on this at present.