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Stocks app running in background even though background app refresh is off.
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I'm seeing a lot of apps do this in iOS 15. One of the many bugs we get to deal with in exchange for new innovative features...
Dude I’ve just about deleted every Apple made app off of my phone because of this. It’s annoying. The privacy report (along with the privacy insights app) feature has exposed so many bugs it’s unreal. Things accessing network data and initiating network activities when I’ve CLEARLY turned all of that off in the settings. The 3 lates of to fall victim of being deleted were Stocks, Mail, Reminders and Notes.
Definitely going to be deleting the stocks app, good idea. I wish Apple had the financial means and influence to deal with the software bugs, but a growing company can only do so much
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Definitely going to be deleting the stocks app, good idea. I wish Apple had the financial means and influence to deal with the software bugs, but a growing company can only do so much
Yeah lol. They’ll get big enough with the available funding ONE day.
No runaway apps on my phone. Stocks only used 3 minutes last 24 hours.
Was the phone setup from a previous backup? And the phone before it? And so on? I had a wonky iPhone 8 that I setup from previous device backup that traced it's roots to my 3G. Clean slate setup "fixed" the problems and have not caused issue going forward on/to my SE 2020.
Yeah, a pain to re-setup everything again, but something to think about vs. one by one app deletes that might not fix anything.
Was the phone setup from a previous backup? And the phone before it? And so on? I had a wonky iPhone 8 that I setup from previous device backup that traced it's roots to my 3G. Clean slate setup "fixed" the problems and have not caused issue going forward on/to my SE 2020.
Yeah, a pain to re-setup everything again, but something to think about vs. one by one app deletes that might not fix anything.
Here is a fun fact my man. While you may not think things are running in the background (and they may not show up in the battery tap), do yourself a favor and look into the privacy report. Your eyes will open up bigger than ****….how many times apps access the web and this and that.
I got it on launch day and was setup by device to device transfer. It had battery drain issues but it got better with the updates but now it seems that stocks is using background. It doesn't seem to be draining the battery, at least its not noticeable. Maybe an hour less of use.
App have 7-8 different methods of running in the background. Background App Refresh is only one of them. Push notification from APN can start an app in the background so it updates it data, like if you are watching a stock.
I'd be curious to see the rest of the battery life screen page. There is a lot of stuff running on the iPhone, that doesn't make its usage a noticeable portion of the battery. For example if your battery drops from 100% to 98% over a few hours in standby there might be something that stands out using 80% battery or something like that, but 80% of 2% total isn't a lot. Dunno if that makes sense.
However first if you don't use the Stocks app, then delete it. If you do, make sure its closed in out of the background apps and notifications are off. If thats unreasonable because you track a bunch of stock then expect it to run in the background a lot.
For some people the stocks app is incredibly important and it not being as up to date as possible could result in the loss of a substantial amount of money.
It might be a bug but if you Google search this you'll find results starting back in 2012, then 2013, 2014...etc...
I'd be curious to see the rest of the battery life screen page. There is a lot of stuff running on the iPhone, that doesn't make its usage a noticeable portion of the battery. For example if your battery drops from 100% to 98% over a few hours in standby there might be something that stands out using 80% battery or something like that, but 80% of 2% total isn't a lot. Dunno if that makes sense.
However first if you don't use the Stocks app, then delete it. If you do, make sure its closed in out of the background apps and notifications are off. If thats unreasonable because you track a bunch of stock then expect it to run in the background a lot.
For some people the stocks app is incredibly important and it not being as up to date as possible could result in the loss of a substantial amount of money.
It might be a bug but if you Google search this you'll find results starting back in 2012, then 2013, 2014...etc...
Thought I'd share my experience with this ever since the first iOS 15 beta: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...rking-in-the-background.2325813/post-30674449
Espresso house app was running 23hours in background.. killed my battery.
I removed it right now.. i hope that ni other apps will do the same.
I am on ios 15.1.1