Contact Microsoft Defender Support

This app used 45% of the battery on my iPhone 13 pro max today. This isn’t uncommon. On a good day it uses 20% of the battery. It also breaks basic functionality in some apps. For example the My Spectrum app won’t even finish loading on my phone when Defender is installed and running. On the dashboard in this app all it ever says is that it’s “scanned” 5K+ links in the last 24 hours? It doesn’t matter if I’ve been using my phone heavily, or barely at all. What “links” does this thing think it’s scanning? Where does it find them? What is it “scanning” them for? I navigated to a handful of known phishing sites just to see what this app would do. It didn’t seem to do anything as far as I could tell. What value does this provide me, or my company? How is it worth nearly half my battery, and breaking basic functionality in 4 other apps I use?

The corporate required us to install this App post Oct,25th otherwise we wouldn’t be able to get access to the corporate resource. 7 days since I’ve installed this App, it has consumed 7GB of my cellular data, 13% of battery in the background while the only two other Apps that have been using more battery are IMs that I’ve been frequently using throughout the week. Uninstalling it now. I’d rather not checkout any resources from my phone and only use corporate PC instead. Thanks Microsoft! Kudos to enforcing our work life balance!

Between this app, Authenticator, and the comp portal app, they all work terribly together and have wasted hours of my time trying to set up a new phone this week. I keep deleting and starting over and whether it’s comp portal saying I don’t have this app (defender) when I already do, or trying to get me to use the auth app when it’s not working yet, the whole thing has been a nightmare. at this point I’m probably just not going to access work things on my phone, period.