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

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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.

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AND it’s in a restaurant!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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My phone still keeps apps open after a restart, idk how. Maybe it catches them somehow?

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There is a difference between running in the background and being in memory.

Recent Apps may or may not be in memory, that’s why when you switch to a “recent” app not used in a while it restarts anyway instead of continuing where you left it, it’s effectively just a bookmark to a closed app. So the list being long doesn’t mean these apps are using memory.

While running in the background is unrelated, apps can run in the background regardless if they are in the Recents list or not. And it can absolutely cause issues or excessive battery usage, but clearing the Recents list is not the solution.

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The meme betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how mobile OS work. They’re not “running in the background.” If they haven’t been interacted with recently they have been frozen and moved out of active memory. Tired literally just looking at a picture of an app when you go to the task view.

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Tired literally just looking at a picture

Tired?

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16 points

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

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i mean from what people complain about it seems they simply don’t determine what notifications are important, they just let everything bombard them at all times and whine that they get so many notifications as if it’s just a fact of life…

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The thing is apps in the “recently used” dont really run in the background, on Android

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Yeah, my parents actually close all their apps regularly, whereas I have dozens of apps not doing anything in the background since it doesn’t really make a difference.

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Tons of FOSS apps doing crucial stuff use tricks, like displaying a permanent notification (which you can then mute) to stay awake.

Also, you need to manually set the battery restriction to “unrestricted” for apps, by pretting on the text in the 2 battery options, and setting it away from “optimized”.

Androids memory management is crazy

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I don’t really believe anything my phone tells me about what apps are running. I think I’m quiting a music player and the interface disappears, but the music will keep playing. If it’s slowing down, closing apps does nothing, but rebooting does.

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All running on the cheapest model the store had.

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