My 4s keeps refreshing facebook, all the time. anyone know how to make it stop, it's killing my battery.

Question

my 4s continually shows it's updating my Facebook page. It's slowing the phone down and draining my battery. any ideas on how to fix it?

Answer 1

The problem seems to be with the iPhone or the Facebook app's memory management.
This fixed it for me:
1) Open up ANOTHER application, like Notes for instance.
2) Press the home button twice quickly. If you've never done this before, it make take a few tries to get the timing right. (The home button is the circular button at the bottom of your phone).
3) A few icons should come up at the bottom of your screen. These are the application "currently running" on your phone, and they take up your phone's memory. Hold your finger down on one of the icons until they all "wiggle" or "shake"... Like when you rearrange icons on your phone's home screen.
4) Once the icons are shaking, there will be a little red X in the corner of each icon. Click on the X for all of the applications, including Facebook, until there are none left except the "Notes" app icon.
5) Restart your phone by holding down the power button (located on the top of your phone) until a red slider appears. Drag the slider to turn off your phone. After about 20-30 seconds, power your phone back up by clicking the power button once.
6) Start the Facebook app. There may be a little refreshing but it should be much improved.
I wrote this up because I imagine there's a lot of people out there that have run into this, and this seems to be the only way to fix it. Just restarting the phone doesn't seem to work.
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