Parents phone be like
from Blaze@lemmy.cafe to lotrmemes@midwest.social on 08 Nov 2024 00:11
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cleverusername@lemm.ee on 08 Nov 2024 00:34 next collapse

And they’re constantly trying to show you a funny video that you saw 10yrs ago.

flughoernchen@feddit.org on 08 Nov 2024 06:52 collapse

But at first they can’t find it, then it doesn’t play and then the phone doesn’t automatically switch in horizontal view, but that’s necessary, as they’re convinced you can not possibly watch it otherwise. So the whole process takes about half an hour.

cleverusername@lemm.ee on 08 Nov 2024 09:53 collapse

AND it’s in a restaurant!

sunoc@sh.itjust.works on 08 Nov 2024 01:07 next collapse

That’s phone maxxing right there. The true power users!

SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml on 08 Nov 2024 02:01 collapse

That explains why their battery drains so fast!

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 2024 01:39 next collapse

More like anyone else’s phone. I literally don’t know how these people determine which notifications are important.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de on 08 Nov 2024 09:58 collapse

i mean from what people complain about it seems they simply don’t determine what notifications are important, they just let everything bombard them at all times and whine that they get so many notifications as if it’s just a fact of life…

nehal3m@sh.itjust.works on 08 Nov 2024 03:22 next collapse

I think memory management on modern phones is good enough that running apps in the background is no longer an issue. Provided you’re not using a piece of shit.

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc on 08 Nov 2024 04:01 next collapse

They will manage it but it still use the maximum allowed if you don’t switch on battery saver.

But then it’s kinda therapeutic when you hit that close all button.

ladicius@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 2024 04:34 next collapse

I’ve trained everyone in my personal support range to restart their phones and tablets weekly. Flushes out all the apps and noticeably reduces complaints and questions from the users.

Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc on 08 Nov 2024 05:40 next collapse

That’s very helpful tip, phone these day is very complicated that even necessary app tend to have bugs, restart help prevent those bug from surface.

JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works on 08 Nov 2024 12:21 collapse

My phone still keeps apps open after a restart, idk how. Maybe it catches them somehow?

dev_null@lemmy.ml on 08 Nov 2024 15:14 collapse

There is a difference between running in the background and being in memory.

Recent Apps may or may not be in memory, that’s why when you switch to a “recent” app not used in a while it restarts anyway instead of continuing where you left it, it’s effectively just a bookmark to a closed app. So the list being long doesn’t mean these apps are using memory.

While running in the background is unrelated, apps can run in the background regardless if they are in the Recents list or not. And it can absolutely cause issues or excessive battery usage, but clearing the Recents list is not the solution.

Telodzrum@lemmy.world on 09 Nov 2024 13:16 collapse

The meme betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how mobile OS work. They’re not “running in the background.” If they haven’t been interacted with recently they have been frozen and moved out of active memory. Tired literally just looking at a picture of an app when you go to the task view.

threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works on 10 Nov 2024 18:17 collapse

Tired literally just looking at a picture

Tired?

credo@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 2024 04:14 next collapse

All running on the cheapest model the store had.

[deleted] on 08 Nov 2024 04:38 next collapse

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flueterflam@lemmy.world on 08 Nov 2024 05:29 collapse

Running Android 14 and somewhat disagree. I have had 1-2 games running in the background after “exiting”/“quitting” the game and dropped from 80-90% battery to 30% in less than 2 hours. (GPS and Bluetooth both disabled). Battery dropped as though I was actively playing with the screen on during that time.

Killing apps has helped me with this issue, in general. However, for the offending game, setting “app battery usage” (specific to Android, not sure of iOS equivalent, if any) has helped better for this issue. Seems a lot of games are trying to load unmecessary stuff and/or sell usage data, despite exiting the game…

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 08 Nov 2024 10:53 next collapse

The thing is apps in the “recently used” dont really run in the background, on Android

JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works on 08 Nov 2024 12:18 next collapse

Yeah, my parents actually close all their apps regularly, whereas I have dozens of apps not doing anything in the background since it doesn’t really make a difference.

boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net on 08 Nov 2024 14:29 collapse

Tons of FOSS apps doing crucial stuff use tricks, like displaying a permanent notification (which you can then mute) to stay awake.

Also, you need to manually set the battery restriction to “unrestricted” for apps, by pretting on the text in the 2 battery options, and setting it away from “optimized”.

Androids memory management is crazy

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 09 Nov 2024 21:54 collapse

I don’t really believe anything my phone tells me about what apps are running. I think I’m quiting a music player and the interface disappears, but the music will keep playing. If it’s slowing down, closing apps does nothing, but rebooting does.

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network on 08 Nov 2024 15:01 next collapse

My mom is also deeply paranoid and superstitious about the phone. I’ll be like “why don’t you delete this second weather app you don’t like that’s sending you all these notifications you ignore?” And she’ll be like “NO YOU’LL BREAK SOMETHING IT HAS TO TO BE LIKE THIS”

RobinSohn@feddit.org on 08 Nov 2024 21:26 collapse

I laughed out loud. But my daughter also laughed a lot, and now I have indifferent feelings.