{"id":10851,"date":"2017-05-08T12:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/?p=10851"},"modified":"2018-05-21T18:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T22:50:18","slug":"background-app-refresh-android-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/background-app-refresh-android-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Background App Refresh on Android, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you have too many apps on your device, your phone is likely trying to perform too many tasks at once \u2014 they\u2019ll be constantly updating as they send and receive new data. This will not only drain your phone\u2019s battery faster, but it may also cause your phone to overheat, which can damage your phone\u2019s battery. If your phone starts to overheat \u2014 perhaps because you have too many apps, or maybe you\u2019re watching a video \u2014 use CPU Cooler to quickly cool down your device:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Deeplink_cool_device_down\"<\/a><\/center>The CPU Cooler will return your device to its normal temperature by closing background apps that are taking up too much of your phone\u2019s power. This will eliminate lag time and help your smartphone to run faster. <\/span><\/p>\n

Read More: <\/b>How to Change Your Default Apps on Android<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Background App Refresh<\/b><\/p>\n

If you have a lot of apps on your device, odds are you have a lot of apps that are connected to the Internet. Apps that you\u2019re not currently using may still be performing tasks in the \u201cbackground\u201d of your device. Your background apps are constantly running and refreshing themselves, whether by using cellular data or your Wi-Fi. Naturally, this can increase your data usage, consume a lot of RAM, and drain your phone\u2019s battery life. It can also lead to poor performance since your phone is trying to do too much at once.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Biggest Offenders<\/b><\/p>\n

The apps that affect your phone\u2019s performance the most include: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Twitter, your email app, Google Maps, and Google Docs\/Sheets. Games and music apps can also take up a lot of your phone\u2019s power. Social networking and messaging apps are by far the worst, though, especially if they have a wide variety of functions, like Facebook. At a minimum, Facebook lets you read articles, shop online, browse the web, upload photos, and communicate with your friends \u2014 that\u2019s a lot of information for one app.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stop Apps From Refreshing<\/b><\/p>\n

One way that you can close background apps is by using DFNDR\u2019s Memory Booster feature. Memory Booster will show you all of the apps that are running in the background, and allow you to quickly close them all. This will free up your RAM and speed up your device. Click here to boost your phone by closing background apps:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Deeplink_unusedapps\"<\/a><\/center>Another way to stop background apps from refreshing is to uninstall or disable them. You can force them to stop updating by going to \u201cSettings,\u201d followed by \u201cApps,\u201d and then \u201cApp Manager.\u201d Then, choose the app you want to disable, click on it, and then click \u201cforce stop.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The apps on your device might be constantly refreshing themselves, which can drain your phone\u2019s battery. Find out how you can resolve this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,18,301,303,308,312,237,4025],"class_list":["post-10851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-performance","tag-android","tag-app","tag-app2","tag-app3","tag-app6","tag-app8","tag-cpu-cooler","tag-dfndr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18633,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10851\/revisions\/18633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psafe.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}