I seriously don’t get why this can no longer be controlled by the user. I like my weather and music to be readily available, everything else can be killed
Android already has a setting for that. Disable battery optimization for apps you want to run in the background. Samsung goes much further with their sleeping, deep sleeping, and never sleeping lists.
I feel like half the time that doesn’t work though :/
Because it’s cached and gets killed when Android needs to free up resources.
Works perfectly for me. Do you have a Samsung device? Because they basically ignore it.
This has not been true for me since oneui 4 and currently oneui 5. Apps can continue running however long within reason(doze). The ones that need to be running 24/7 like accubattery, tasker work fine when you set battery optimization to unrestricted. Others like adguard power through without issue. Only apps that take too many resources or frequent crashes that slow down your device get automatically closed — shown in device care. The only times my apps restart is when running heavy games and apps that take gigs in memory.
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I’m sure this will have good and bad consequences.
I think two great ways to manage this are
1: using permissions the user can see and grant/deny “Allow persistent background usage” or something like that with a tooltip or something that warms the user about resource usage. IIRC, this is already a thing in Android 14.
2: providing visibility into background app usage and history. They do this to some degree, but it’s not as good as it could be. Especially when I want to know what is draining my battery when my phone is in my pocket.
This really was a trick and was mostly exploited.
An app that actually needs being in the background would just show a persistant notification.
