Occasionally there will be a popup saying the phone is putting apps that haven’t been used in a while to sleep to save battery. Why doesn’t it just do this all the time? Why does an app need to be “awake” if I am not using it?
Occasionally there will be a popup saying the phone is putting apps that haven’t been used in a while to sleep to save battery. Why doesn’t it just do this all the time? Why does an app need to be “awake” if I am not using it?
The real answer is: because the OS lets the app decide whether or not to run in the background. And those “free” development frameworks cheap app developers use monetize via background data collection, so make sure the “run in background” flag is set at compile time. So you get flashlight apps that require your location, microphone and background functionality.