The Mumsnet mobile site keeps draining my iPhone battery. Help would be appreciated.

[KittyVonCatsington]

For about three weeks now, I have been perplexed as to why my battery keeps draining so much suddenly.

I have gone through my apps and turned off mobile data for most and background updates.

I have narrowed it down to just being in the Mumsnet site using Safari. I literally watch my battery percentage count down when I am on this site. It never used to!

I am using IOS 11.3 version.

I have also attached photos of my phone going down 20% in 15 minutes.

Can anyone help?

Don’t know the answer but I’m having the same issue!

I wonder if it’s linked to certain ads - although I have an adblocker some are still showing.

Interesting as I have the same problem. I thought it was my phone

Any answers?

Hi there @Disquieted1,

We can see this thread was started in April - have you been having the same problem recently?

Yes. I have a Sony Xperia. Battery lasts maybe an hour on MN but a couple of days of general use.

If this helps I timed it tonight. 57 minutes from full charge to switch off.
No problems with any other site. MN is becoming unusable.

also munches my mobile data like nothing else.

Ditto here

I’ve noticed this too - an hour of browsing knocks out half my battery life.

Yep 42% battery gone in less than an hour.

Pretty sure it will be the ads on the mobile site munching your data moredoll - I use the app when out and about and it doesn't get through so much data.

Hi there everyone,

Thanks for letting us know, we've flagged it to our tech team.

Hi guys, thanks for raising this.

As a general rule, using a website use will always drain more battery than using an app with the same content. This is because much more data has to be loaded every time you load a page on a website, compared to an app.

This is one reason we created the Talk iOS app and the Talk Android app.

*The Android app has some issues we're currently aware of and still working on, it also has less features than the iOS Talk app.

Just bumping this as it’s happening to me again - MN use totally ruining my battery

Anyone else got this issue?

Re-bump. New phone, new battery, MN still burns through it.

All I have running is Mcafee in the background, Chrome and MN. This does not happen on any other site.
I moaned above that MN is becoming unusable and it's not getting any better. Why does it take so long for a simple hyperlink to activate? Why has it taken me 5 minutes to compile this message?

It's the adverts. Each thread has a banner, then at least 2 when scrolling and finally one at the bottom. MN is becoming un readable all for the sake of a few quid.

Hi Disquieted, ShirleyPhallus and Dermymc,

We're really sorry you've finding this such a pita - we'd like to help make things run more smoothly for you so we're taking another look at this for you all now.

In the meantime - here's some

This has started happening to me in the last couple of weeks using Mumsnet mobile site in the google browser (iPhone). I’ve watched the battery drain 23% in 6 minutes. When I’m not on this site, battery life is fine.