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Both are brain rot apps, and both sell your data.
This. The major issue with those apps is that they need to continuously collect your data in the background (for example Google Maps will record all the places you go to in real-time) and I don't think they'll make it easy for you to just disable their background telemetry, and that obviously will increase battery usage.
WhatsApp is the worst because I can't uninstall it and use it from a mobile browser. But it's the top battery drainer for me. It definitely leeches much more power than it needs for a few background messages and call notifications.
I mean I can't uninstall it because it's an app that I use for communication with everyone. It's like the messages and phone apps for me.
Btw somebody recommended an app Ice Box and works fine to freeze apps so they don't run in the background. Now I can install a lot of shitty apps that I use once per week or once per year and freeze them. Or apps where I don't need notifications arriving.
I've frozen like 20 apps and this night in 7 hours got less than 1% battery drain. (At 26% capacity). Generally I get 4-8% drain overnight. But this could also be that the battery menu got bugged or something. Edit: that 1% drain in one night it was probably like a bug from android battery menu everytime is different. But still I'm getting better standby than usual!