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background activity

  1. onFIRE

    Screen Time and background activity

    When I open Screen Time, I see these gray bars. I know my phone screen time isn't this high so I asked someone at the Apple Store and he said it was background activity from various apps and that there isn't a way to not show this in the Screen Time calculation. I'm curious, if this is the case...
  2. Tsepz

    iPhone 15 Pro Max How is the multitasking with 8GB RAM?

    Congratulations to all those who managed to get their 15 Pro Max this week/weekend. Given the apparent upgrade of RAM from 6GB (in 12 PM, 13 PM and 14 PM) to 8GB in the 15 Pro Max, I would love to know if you are seeing significantly more apps staying in RAM/not restarting after you have left...
  3. A

    iPhone 12 Pro Apps open in background

    Are the apps that are open in background still able to access private data (location, photos, health). Or should I force quit them via task manager.
  4. mdmlb

    Screen off battery usage by apps despite being on low pwer mode and/or background refresh turned off for all apps?

    Hi. I have an iPhone 11 pro running ios 14.7.1. It's been a while since I checked my battery stats but a few days ago I did go check and noticed that any random individual app is running in the background when my screen is off. This is weird because the last time I constantly checked my...
  5. H

    Unexplained background activity from mail app after updating to iOS 14.7

    I updated on Saturday, and under my batter usage, the mail app was coming up as 15m background activity, which I am assuming is separate from background app refresh, as that is disabled. The odd thing is, I didn't have the mail app open, and I don't have any email accounts added to it. I have...