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you need to update the Facebook app right now I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNET update the Facebook app is a battery drain on your phone and even Facebook admits it has a problem with how much battery life it uses but the network just came out with an updated app that should improve battery life a bit this fix follows complaints about the app which have been escalating ever since iPhone users got the ability to see exactly how much battery each app is using in iOS 9 this feature shows Facebook was eating up lots of battery life in the background even when background app refresh was turned off in settings Facebook's engineering manager Ari grant wrote a post saying that his team found a few key issues and made some improvements and that Facebook is continuing to work on improving battery usage there are other ways you can also watch your battery and data with Facebook make sure in facebook settings you disable videos from automatically playing in your newsfeed snapchat is another big battery offender because it's getting your location with GPS and using video and data travel mode can save you a bit because it won't load your friends snaps unless you click on the message and with all phones and apps you can save battery by limiting your notifications turning off bluetooth and location as well as turning down the brightness of your screen but going back to Facebook the network is rolling out a new function that lets you search through anyone's public posts that's more than 2 trillion posts a month that you can search through it gives Facebook more power as a resource to discover news and other trends by using it as a search engine of sorts you can do this in the search bar on the website or app but right now it's only for us members type in a keyword like star wars and see what your friends have said about it and also see public posts from people you don't know and not to fall behind Facebook Twitter is trying to make money from its new moment section moments highlights big stories being shared on the network and it's Twitter's way of creating a news hub now moments will have advertisements they're called promoted moments the movie Creed paid to show photos and videos within this section over the weekend and for those of you who like physical mail over social media there's a cool new feature in the ship app it spelled s Hyp it wants to change the way we ship packages you can send a package to someone without knowing their address but the catch is that the person also needs to have the ship app all you need is that person's username and it sends your package to their address on file without telling you their address ship has been around for a year already and it helps you send anything you want you just take a photo of something you need packaged and within 20 minutes someone's coming by to pick it up and pack it in a box and mail it for you that service is in San Francisco la New York Miami and Chicago that's it for this tech news update there's more at sea Netcom from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey