• nehal3m@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    I think memory management on modern phones is good enough that running apps in the background is no longer an issue. Provided you’re not using a piece of shit.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      They will manage it but it still use the maximum allowed if you don’t switch on battery saver.

      But then it’s kinda therapeutic when you hit that close all button.

      • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        I’ve trained everyone in my personal support range to restart their phones and tablets weekly. Flushes out all the apps and noticeably reduces complaints and questions from the users.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
          3·
          3 hours ago

          That’s very helpful tip, phone these day is very complicated that even necessary app tend to have bugs, restart help prevent those bug from surface.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    3·
    4 hours ago

    Mobile OSes will ask (and act directly, if ignored) backgrounded apps to dump themselves out to disk to reclaim memory when needed, and the kinds of processing you’re allowed to do while backgrounded are quite limited.

    There’s really not much of a performance reason to kill backgrounded apps. Feel free to kill them for other reasons, like unnecessary network traffic or draining your battery by keeping GPS active.

    • flueterflam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Running Android 14 and somewhat disagree. I have had 1-2 games running in the background after “exiting”/“quitting” the game and dropped from 80-90% battery to 30% in less than 2 hours. (GPS and Bluetooth both disabled). Battery dropped as though I was actively playing with the screen on during that time.

      Killing apps has helped me with this issue, in general. However, for the offending game, setting “app battery usage” (specific to Android, not sure of iOS equivalent, if any) has helped better for this issue. Seems a lot of games are trying to load unmecessary stuff and/or sell usage data, despite exiting the game…

  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 hours ago

    More like anyone else’s phone. I literally don’t know how these people determine which notifications are important.

  • cleverusernameEnglish
    16·
    8 hours ago

    And they’re constantly trying to show you a funny video that you saw 10yrs ago.

    • flughoernchen@feddit.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      But at first they can’t find it, then it doesn’t play and then the phone doesn’t automatically switch in horizontal view, but that’s necessary, as they’re convinced you can not possibly watch it otherwise. So the whole process takes about half an hour.