Facebook Messenger consumes a lot of battery even if no messages are sent/received I recently installed Facebook Messenger and it seems to be consuming a lot of battery, even if no messages are sent/received in a day.

Below is the battery usage for reference. As you can see Messenger used 12% of battery even though I did not use it the entire day, exceeding even the screen usage.

Is there a way to fix this? Uninstalling the app is my last option as sometimes I do want to send/receive messages on it.
Both the Facebook and Facebook Messenger apps are notorious for excessive battery use. Seriously, social media is nowhere near important enough to warrant killing your phone battery. One way to help is to make sure that location reporting is turned off for both apps. You should actually go through all of the settings for both apps and disable every single thing you definitely don't need. All of the battery-sucking features are enabled by default.

Of course, the best thing to do is kick Facebook's apps to the curb and just access it through the mobile browser... but that's just my opinion,