Comment 15 for bug 1373463

The reason I asked for data on battery consumption is that it's the first issue cited in the bug description. Either it's a real issue or it isn't. If it is, producing data on it should be easy. If it isn't, data usage isn't "another reason"; it is, at most, the only reason. And as with battery usage, requiring the human to know and remember to fiddle with a switch would be the least reliable way of solving it. For example, if Telegram continues sending phone notifications when you are actively using Telegram on a PC, that is a bug in the app. Have you reported it?

That people commonly do something, or Web sites commonly advise something, does not mean it's a good idea. For example, millions of people routinely quit all background apps on their phone, because it's easy to do, and they think it saves battery, but it actually wastes battery. Making bad things easy to do is bad design.