• flughoernchenEnglish
      10·
      14 days ago

      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.

  • nehal3m@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    22·
    14 days ago

    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.

    • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
      101·
      14 days ago

      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.

      • ladicius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        91·
        14 days ago

        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.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.ccEnglish
          7·
          14 days ago

          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.

      • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        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.

    • Telodzrum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    14 days ago

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

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      14 days ago

      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…

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      13 days ago

      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.

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        13 days ago

        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

    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      12 days ago

      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.

  • RobinSohnEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    I laughed out loud. But my daughter also laughed a lot, and now I have indifferent feelings.

  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    My mom is also deeply paranoid and superstitious about the phone. I’ll be like “why don’t you delete this second weather app you don’t like that’s sending you all these notifications you ignore?” And she’ll be like “NO YOU’LL BREAK SOMETHING IT HAS TO TO BE LIKE THIS”

    • flueterflam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      14 days ago

      Running Android 14 and somewhat disagree. I have had 1-2 games running in the background after “exiting”/“quitting” the game and dropped from 80-90% battery to 30% in less than 2 hours. (GPS and Bluetooth both disabled). Battery dropped as though I was actively playing with the screen on during that time.

      Killing apps has helped me with this issue, in general. However, for the offending game, setting “app battery usage” (specific to Android, not sure of iOS equivalent, if any) has helped better for this issue. Seems a lot of games are trying to load unmecessary stuff and/or sell usage data, despite exiting the game…