Does Turning Off Background App Refresh Improve Battery Life? Turning off Background App Refresh can significantly improve your phone's battery life, especially if you're frequently away from a ...

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Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

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If you’re seeing faster battery drain than expected with iPhone 14 or 14 Pro you’re not alone. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a problem with your phone. Here’s a look at 7 tips and ...

Finally taking advantage of a rather useful technology in iOS 7, Google has released version 3.0 of its Gmail for iOS app with full support for background refresh allowing messages to download within ...

Background Apps Issue: If your smartphone has become slow for no apparent reason, a major cause could be background apps. These apps are not visible on the screen, but they continuously run in the ...

Not that it was super sucky before. The one glaringly sucky thing about it has been de-suckified, however. From Google’s blog: The app now fully supports background app refresh, which means your Gmail ...