I noticed that all the apps on my Pixel 8 has the “Allow background usage” option enabled. Didn’t this use to be an opt-in setting?

I’m worried that something got messed up when I had to do a copy from my Pixel 8 (Android 15) to my old Pixel 5 (Android 14) and back to my Pixel 8 again (I had to factory reset my Pixel 8 before sending it in for repair).

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Tap on an app there. There are three settings. “disabled” for basically freezing apps once they’re no longer in the foreground, "enabled“ for doing things like occasionally checking for content updates j the background and playing music while other apps are on the forefront, and “unlimited” for the setting you’re thinking off, which badly designed apps often need to not be killed when they keep hitting the CPU in the background while the user hasn’t interacted with them for ages.

    Other manufacturers have even worse appp killers.

    • Kent@feddit.dkOPEnglish
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      24 hours ago

      Ahh, yes - you’re right, I was mistaken the “Allow background usage” with the “Unrestricted” background usage.

      The Pixel settings are a bit ‘funny’: it’s an on/off toggle for “Allow background usage”, but when it’s enabled you can actually click on the settings text itself, and go into a submenu, where you can choose between “Optimized” and “Unrestricted” (“Optimized” is the default for apps that are allowed background usage).

      Thanks for all your help!