An Elevate study found Netflix is the biggest battery drainer, followed by TikTok and YouTube, due to heavy usage and background activity. Apps like Instagram, Snapchat and Spotify also consume significant power. Google has begun flagging apps with excessive background activity, while experts advise limiting refresh and disabling unused apps.

Your phone dying before noon is not a hardware problem. It is almost certainly an app problem. A study by telecom company Elevate analysed user habits and background activity across the most popular apps to rank which ones hit your battery hardest and the results are a checklist of apps that sit on virtually every Indian smartphone.

The biggest battery draining apps, ranked

1. Netflix

2. TikTok (banned in India)