The Facebook application is a real drain for the battery of our device as well as being one of the main evils for our data rate. The happy videos that fill our Facebook wall and that are reproduced automatically, unless we have changed the settings so that they do not, they can consume a large part of our data rate in a moment. The guys at Facebook don't care about it, what they want is for the videos to be played over and over again so that they can post advertising on their platform and make it profitable.
Facebook is a company and not an NGO, so the inclusion of the ads is logical, but not the excessive consumption of battery data that this application has. Facebook Messenger for a while now has not stopped adding improvements, improvements that mean that once again our data rate is affected very seriously. Mark Zuckerberg is to know about it and you don't want users to stop using it and that users switch to other messaging applications. To improve this little big problem, the company plans to add a data saving option to the app.
Facebook is currently testing this new feature in beta on Android. The operation is very simple since it modifies the way in which we download the multimedia content that we receive through the application. If the data saving mode the application is disabled automatically downloads all content that is received, regardless of the file format and size. But if we activate the data saving mode, in order to download the content that we receive we will have to click on it, in this way we will be able to control much more the consumption that Facebook Messenger makes of our data rate.
This feature is not for new in the world of messaging applications. Without going further, Telegram offers us this option, but in a more selective way practically since it arrived on the market, being able to configure what type of files we want to download automatically if we are connected with our data rate or through a Wi-Fi connection. This new Facebook feature will only work when we are using the data rate to review the messages and files we receive.