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Revealed: Top mobile apps that hog your data, drain your battery

Uninstalling these apps or access them on browser to save data and battery.

Do you have to charge your Android smartphone often? May be it's time you stopped blaming your battery for the drain and uninstall these apps hogging the battery's life.

Avast has released its quarterly Avast Android App Performance & Trend Report Q1 2017 and not surprisingly Facebook, WeChat, Google Maps are part of the list.

With information from over 3,000,000 Android users, it charts the worst offenders and the new arrivals on the lists, including a trio of newcomers from Google in the form of its Play Music, Talkback and Docs apps.