I just used Android's default battery usage stats. What I know is that constantly killing the app (swipe up) makes it a lot worse because the app needs to constantly reload everything about it.

Not sure if this is helpful, but this is stupidly high compared to other apps like signal

Yeah, compared to other apps that do much less, ours will always be extremely high. But that background time shouldn't happen. The app keeps going for 1 minute after you send it to the background. So, it depends on how many times you bring it up over time, but it should be minimal. Assuming you were not listening of video in the background, I will see if we are leaking some service.

Can confirm, I see the background usage too.

That sucks. It should not do that :(