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?
Usually connectivity reasons. If an app is asleep, it can’t receive or send notifications, so there would be absolutely no “background” tasks or receiving messages, etc.
Some of that is for data theft reasons, like someone else stated, but definitely not all.