App Kills Battery - Not GPS

[Mike72677]

I keep my GPS off unless I need to use it, but when I ever use it for navigating or for Geocaching, the battery drains quickly. I just installed the new My Mobile Recovery (https://www.mymobilerecovery.com), but it requires the GPS to be on to locate the phone. It doesn't seem to work with just cellular "GPS". I turned on my GPS today to see how the battery life is and it didn't seem to have too much effect on the battery life.

So am I correct in stating that the applications that use the GPS are what REALLY kill the battery, not the GPS?

 

[Isaacr]

No. It is the GPS that's using the energy. The difference is this:

Navigation/geocaching runs the GPS continuously for minutes or hours to keep your location as accurate as possible.

Apps such as My Mobile Recovery only run the GPS for a few seconds every hour or so to update your location.