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background app refresh

  1. Tsepz

    iPhone 15 Pro Max How is the multitasking with 8GB RAM?

    Congratulations to all those who managed to get their 15 Pro Max this week/weekend. Given the apparent upgrade of RAM from 6GB (in 12 PM, 13 PM and 14 PM) to 8GB in the 15 Pro Max, I would love to know if you are seeing significantly more apps staying in RAM/not restarting after you have left...
  2. purdnost

    Background App Refresh Critical Use Cases?

    For which apps do you have background app refresh enabled in order for features important to you to work?
  3. U

    iOS Mail app does not fetch mails in favourite mailboxes of IMAP accounts on schedule!

    iOS mail app does not fetch mails in favourite mailboxes of IMAP accounts on schedule. the scheduled fetch of favourite mailboxes of any IMAP account does not occur. I think that iOS Mail app has the privileges to fetch even without showing in the app switcher. Thus the existing behaviour...
  4. Tkgustad

    App Store Destroying Battery Life

    For the past couple weeks I have noticed a significant drop in battery life and it has consistently been because of the App Store. I always completely close out the application when I am not using it, yet it still runs in the background. I have also changed my settings to not allow automatic app...
  5. H

    iPhone App background refreshing even when disabled?

    Hello, I am unable to find this weird behavior discussed on line for iOS 11 yet. I have found out accidentally, that one of my applications was using ~ 15% battery (in 24 hours) on background refresh. BUT, that application had background refresh disabled. Could not stop it from doing it, so I...
  6. L

    iOS Background Refresh

    Why do apps like WhatsApp, Snapchat, Messenger not sync up in the background even though background refresh has been enabled. I have to manually open up these apps, only then do I get the notifications. Am I missing something? P.S. I recently moved to iPhone 7 from Android. EDIT : The problem...
  7. Neblinio

    Background App Refresh toggles in Settings

    I understand how background execution works on iOS, but I've always wondered how Background App Refresh toggles really work in iOS Settings. First things first: What's needed for an App to be shown in Background App Refresh list in Settings? Obviously, Apps that have "fetch" present in...