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Background App refresh
- Thread starter ParagJain
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are badge app icons on? that means its still running. or maybe your hearing something else that uses same sound?
Abazigal
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Background app refresh has nothing to do with notifications. It just means whatsapp will pre-download incoming messages instead of loading them when you open the app.
Thanks, but is there a way to turn it off; I get far too many official messages and sadly, its eating it in my battery by a big margin
QuarterSwede
macrumors G4
Everyone says that and in theory the way background app refresh works means it shouldn't eat your battery alive but that's not what I've experienced with a bunch of apps being "on" with it. As soon as I turned a bunch off my battery life skyrocketed back up. Bug? Who knows.
wordswithfreinds takes an hour off battery time. it did when I used to leave it on. Hence why I turned it off
haruhiko
macrumors 604
Push notifications is not the same as background app refresh. The latter one can really consume your battery if you allow every app to run in the background. I'd suggest you to only turn on background app refresh for selected apps.
GreyOS
macrumors 68040
Skype runs in the background outside of the background app refresh protocol because it's VoIP. Signing out and exiting should also save battery without you having to delete it. I really doubt the push notifications use that much battery. it's only downloading a few bytes and turning the screen on briefly (if it's not already on)
Abazigal
Contributor
It's possible that the battery savings is due to factors like push notifications no longer causing your lock screen to light up, and not simply due to the lack of push notifications itself.
GreyOS
macrumors 68040
It shouldn't eat it alive but even Apple say on the settings screen that turning it off may preserve battery life