77 Android Apps Secretly Killing Your Battery Life & Costing You Money

There are over 70 high-risk Android apps that cost you money every day by using more data than you think, causing problems with your connection, exposing your security or privacy and absolutely destroying your Android battery life.

No matter what carrier you use, you need to be cautious of these high-risk Android apps that can cause problems on your phone. These are popular apps that many of us rely on to pass the time and the odds are very good that you have at least two or three of these Android apps installed.

Verizon Wireless identifies 70+ high-risk Android apps that can cause the following problems with your Android phone. Even if you use T-Mobile, Sprint, AT&T or a pre-paid carrier the impact is still the same. All of these are on the Google Play Store, but can still cause problems.

Here are four areas where you may run into problems with high-risk Android apps;

• Loss of functionality (e.g., loss of data connection)
• Unexpected high data usage
• Battery draining 2 or 3 times faster than normal
• Security or privacy exposure

You can still safely use many of these Android apps if you force close them when you are done. To do this, press the app drawer button on your phone and then slide the app to the left to close it. This will stop it from using your battery and it will stop it from using data that can cost you money.

Bad Android Apps

Here is a list of high-risk Android apps, as named by Verizon Wireless, that you need to be aware of. You can learn more about each of these apps on the Verizon listing. The specific apps may change as developers fix problems.

8 Ball Pool

Adventure Time: Game Wizard

Agar.io

AlphaBetty Saga

Asphalt 7: Heat

Asphalt 8: Airborne

Attack the Light

Babel Rising 3D! Sponsored

Bejeweled Blitz

Big Fish Casino – Free SLOTS

Burger

Candy Crush Jelly Saga

Candy Crush Saga

Candy Crush Soda Saga

Color Switch

Cooking Fever

Darkness Reborn

DEER HUNTER 2014

DEER HUNTER 2016

Despicable Me

DH Texas Poker

Diamond Digger Saga

Don’t Starve: Pocket Edition

Draw Something Free

Dude Perfect 2

Dumb Ways to Die 2: The Games

Empire Siege

EvoCreo

Exploding Kittens® – Official

Farm 123 – Story Toys Jr.

Farm Heroes Saga

Farm Heroes Super Saga

Farming Simulator 14

Farming Simulator 16

Final Fantasy Tactics: WotL

Goat Simulator

Gods Rush

Grand Theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Hitman GO

In Fear I Trust

Kingdom Rush Origins

Laser Pointer X2 Simulator

LEGO® Star Wars™: TCS

Limbo

Minecraft: Story Mode

Monsters Ate My Birthday Cake

Monument Valley

My Talking Tom

N.O.V.A. 3 – Near Orbit

Need for Speed™ Most Wanted

Osmos HD

Papa Pear Saga

Plants vs. Zombies™

Pocket MapleStory

Power Ping Pong

Robbery Bob 2: Double Trouble

slither.io

SOULCALIBUR

SpongeBob’s Game Frenzy

Star Wars™: KOTOR

Summoners War

Super-Bright LED Flashlight

Teeny Titans: Teen Titans Go!

Terraria.

The Game of Life

Torque Pro (OBD 2 & Car)

Toy Blast

True Skate

Vine

VivaVideo Pro: HD Video Editor

Wheel of Fortune Free Play

World of Battleships

Worms 3

WWE 2K

Z Camera

Zombie Frontier

Some of these apps can drain your Android battery life as much as 4.9 times faster than normal and use 200-300Mb of data in a month.

Using more data can cost you money and if you are fed up with bad Android battery life it might be the apps on your phone, not the phone itself. Here are additional guides to fix bad Android battery life.

• How to fix bad Galaxy S6 Battery Life
• How to fix bad Galaxy S7 Battery Life
• How to fix bad Nexus Nougat Battery Life

You can take control of these bad Android apps that cost you money and kill your battery life without completely giving up on them.