Ios App Background Refresh

The switch will become grayed out when toggled off.

Ios app background refresh. If i am using google maps it is active and there does not need background refresh. Turn on your iphone or ipad in ios 10. Ios learns patterns based on how you use your device and tries to predict when an app running in the background should refresh.

Background app refresh lets your app run periodically in the background so that it can update its content. In ios 7 if you kill an app from the app switcher it is gone and no activity at all. Toggle background app refresh switch to the right of the app for which you wish to disable it to off.

Tomtom apple maps google maps all do not use background app refresh and they all work fine. Background app refresh is only used for downloading files like news feeds or weather data from the internet it has no other purpose. From the home screen open the settings app.

Coming back to my google example. Apps certainly don t need background app refresh to get the location in the background. Ios 13 is killing background apps more frequently iphone owners report.

There is a limit of resources on the phone so that the system must priorities which apps it should allocate resources for. Apps that update their content frequently such as news apps or social media apps can use this feature to ensure that their content is always up to date. Select on background app refresh.

Background app refresh setting. Disabling background app refresh on iphone and ipad in ios 10. From the list of apps change the toggle to off for the apps that you don t want to refresh in the background.