Android Marshmallow or below: Smart manager.

Android Oreo and Nougat: App power monitor, Background restrictions.

Android Pie and higher: Device care, Background restrictions, lists of Sleeping apps, Unused apps, Auto-disable unused apps.

Android 11: Battery optimization, Auto-optimize, Adaptive battery, Adaptive power-saving, Background restrictions, lists of Sleeping apps, Unused apps, Deep sleeping apps, Never sleeping apps.

What optimization apps does Samsung have? If you find a different layout, or different name, let us know. NOTE: It is very hard to keep up with all the changes in the system settings layout and their modifications across all the combinations of phones and Android versions. They kill background processes and render alarm clocks and other apps which rely on background processing useless. Yes, Samsung - a dominant vendor in the Android market - is now using one of the nastiest battery saving techniques in the industry.

Important: The latest feedback suggests even when you remove an app from the restricted list, Samsung may re-add them later after a firmware update or when it thinks it is using too much resources! Imagine, you won’t use your alarm clock for the weekend plus 1 day and bang! no alarms anymore and you miss work! We strongly suggest to turn off Adaptive battery and Put apps to sleep options per instructions below. The hints show adaptive battery being much more eager than in stock Android.Īfter 3 days any unused app will not be able to start from background (e.g.

We record significantly increased number of app killing on Samsung’s since Android Pie flavor. Let's find out, if it is a bug or a feature. UPDATE 04/2021: Is Samsung now killing even foreground services? Could this be real, or is it a chimera?Įven disabling the system battery restrictions does not save the app from being killed. See details here and read below for workaround. This breaks many use-cases, for instance health apps are now unable to gather sensoric data for their users. Apps can no longer hold wake lock in foreground services. Despite Android team promise to enforce OEMs to be transparent about non-standard app killing, in Android 11 Samsung has introduced a new severe (default ON) restriction.

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