Background apps

Some apps such as Skype and BBC News run in the background when not in use. This uses up quite a bit of battery power. Can I stop them when they are not needed?
SueLes

Settings > General > Background App Refresh

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Feature request: please give the ability to close all background apps at once!?

Hello. Please oh please give us the ability to close all open/running apps with one click or swipe. I, like many users, like to close running apps (much like on my computer) to keep my ipad/iPhone running fast. I know you guys say that background apps are put on pause and don't slow things down but that is simply not the case in real world usage. All the time my iPhone or iPad becomes sluggish and if I swipe 30 times to close all the apps the sluggishness goes away. I like the simple and easy to use ios, but a little more control for the user would be very beneficial. This, I would guess, is one of the main reasons one would get an android device instead, because they require for fine tune control. Giving us this feature, amoung a few others, would be a win win. The end user get more what they need, and apple steals away (or keeps) more loyal apple buyers.

Send your suggestion to Apple at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
This is a user to user technical help forum. You aren't talking to Apple here.

Is There a Way to Make the Background App Be Useable?

Hi. Is there a way to make the background useable? For example, you have a fullscreen only app in the background and you want/wanted (which is the correct grammar btw, those who're native speakers and why?) and you have Safari for some tutorial, is there a way to access the background app (for example if it's a drawing app you're learning).
It is possible I guess if the background is/was (which is the correct grammar again btw and why) was resizable.
Thanks in advance.
Gbu.

Another way to be able to get to the tutorial in Safari would be to double-click the titlebar of the drawing app's window. Doing that should minimize it, dropping it into the Dock, thus making the Safari window visible. You can bring the drawing back up and front by clicking its icon in the Dock.
I can see a lot of confusion happening if it were possible to have the top window inactive and one in the back of it active. One would have to be really alert as to which window was the active one, to avoid something happening in the wrong place. I'm glad it doesn't work that way.
As far as the drawing app not behaving in accordance with Apple's guidlines re full-screen windows, well, that's on the publisher of the program. Apple publishes developer guidelines for a reason.

How to hide background apps from dock?

I have an application (Hardware Growler) that appears in the dock, but it's a background app, so I'd like it to not appear in the dock.
In the user account preferences, there's a "hide" checkbox for programs that are launched on startup. No help (but maybe I have to reboot, which Mac users aren't supposed to have to do).
I've tried dragging it off the dock. It always moves back to the dock.
I've tried setting NSUIElement to "1". No help.
I've tried right-clicking on the item in the dock and selecting "Hide". No help.
Thanks.

...just as a little additional info, for those who are not comfortable with the terminal:
There is a nifty little Freeware App called "Dockless" that does just that - switching on or off if an Application has an icon in the dock:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18195
Mini & MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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How often do Background App Refreshes occur in iOS 7?

In iOS 7, some apps can now update their data even when the app is not open. This feature is called "Background App Refresh". How often does each app update their content using this method? Is it up to the app to determine the frequency, or does iOS 7 limit them?

Why does there need to be a limit imposed? Perhaps it'd be appropriate for some app to update once a minute.
I can just imagine the havoc that would be caused if Apple limited turn-by-turn navigation apps to a 15-min update window, just as an example.

What is a memory alert and how do I shut down background apps?

What is a memory alert and how do I shut down background apps?

It's when the internal memory doesn't have enough space to operate apps or the phone. You should do two things.
1) Double-tap your Home button. You should see a row of apps at the bottom of the screen. Tap on one and hold down until it wiggles. Hit the red x in the upper right of the icon. Do this for all icons. Don't worry - you're not deleting the Apps, you're just shutting them down from multitasking
2) Do a hard reset of your iPhone. Hold down the Home button and Sleep button. Keep both held down until you see an Apple logo.
This should clear the memory.
Good luck!

TextfieldCell in Transparent Tableview, shows background app during editing

Hi,
With reference to the RoundTransparentWindow code of Apple Examples, I tried to make my tableview also transparent from the following code.
- (void)setColumnHeaderOf:(id)identifier image:(NSImage*)image title:(NSString*)title
NSTableColumn *column=[self tableColumnWithIdentifier:identifier];
[[column headerCell] setCellAttribute:NSCellHasImageOnLeftOrBottom to:NSImageBelow];
[[column headerCell] setImage:image];
NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:title];
NSMutableParagraphStyle * aParagraphStyle = [[[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init] autorelease];
[aParagraphStyle setLineBreakMode:NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail];
[aParagraphStyle setAlignment:NSCenterTextAlignment];
CGFloat dividingFactor = 255.0f;
NSMutableDictionary * aTitleAttributes = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithObjectsAndKeys:
[NSFontfontWithName:CPFONTNAME size:[NSFont systemFontSize]], NSFontAttributeName,
aParagraphStyle,NSParagraphStyleAttributeName,
nil] autorelease];
[aTitleAttributes setValue:[NSColor colorWithDeviceRed:(246/dividingFactor) green:(204/dividingFactor)blue:(37/dividingFactor) alpha:1.0f] forKey:NSForegroundColorAttributeName];
[attributedString addAttributes:aTitleAttributes range:NSMakeRange(0, [attributedString length])];
[[column headerCell] setAttributedStringValue:attributedString];
[attributedString release];
- (void)awakeFromNib
NSLog(@"KBCustomTableView awakeFromNib");
[[self enclosingScrollView] setDrawsBackground:NO];
NSRect frameRect = [[self headerView] frame];
[[self headerView] setFrameSize:NSMakeSize(frameRect.size.width, 30)];
[self setColumnHeaderOf:@"Column1" image:[NSImage imageNamed:@"ColHdr1"] title:@"Column1"];
[self setColumnHeaderOf:@"Column2" image:[NSImage imageNamed:@"ColHdr2"] title:@"Column2"];
[self setColumnHeaderOf:@"Column3" image:[NSImage imageNamed:@"ColHdr3"] title:@"Column3"];
- (void)drawBackgroundInClipRect:(NSRect)clipRect
NSLog(@"KBCustomTableView drawBackgroundInClipRect");
//[super drawBackgroundInClipRect:clipRect];
- (id)_highlightColorForCell:(NSCell *)cell
[self setBackgroundColor:[NSColor clearColor]];
return nil;
It works fine but with one strange behaviour of textfieldCell.
WhileEditing the textfieldCell, my background app is shown clearly. This is because in the method, _highlightColorForCell self setBackgroundColor:[NSColor clearColor]]; If I don't do this, then my table behaves very much weird with lot of colors.
Any idea how to resolve this.
Regards
symadept

Hi again
You can control the anti-aliasing on a global scale via Edit > Preferences.
Slide color is controlled either at the slide level itself (examine Slide Properties) and you can also set a default color in Preferences so that if you click Insert > Blank Slide it has a defined color.
It's common for folks to use the hot pink color as a transparent color. I just figured that you were configuring that color in the bitmap image you were creating for the caption. If you haven't done this, I'm unsure where the color may be coming from. Are you using a Bitmap Image in BMP format for the Caption? If not, perhaps you are using PNG or something like that and Captivate may be interpreting a transparent color set in the PNG. Not sure.
Cheers... Rick
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How do I cancel background apps

How do I cancel background apps in iPad 2? On my 1 I would double click the home bottom and hold app, they would allow you to cancel them and click the home button again. Since upgrading, I can't do that with this iPad.

Double tap the home button, then swipe upwards on the App Preview (not the App Icon).

How To Uninstall Background Apps Installed With CC

Hello,
I attempted to install the PhotoshopCC onto a Windows OS7 computer - which went drastically wrong. I performed an uninstall - yet that left a background app that now runs even though I have no Adobe applications running.
How do you uninstall the background application and all other components installed with the PhotoshopCC installation?
I have been on hold for chat support multiple times for multiple hours - never getting a chat representative.
I have called the support number multiple times and put on hold for hours - never getting a support rep.
I do not want to pay $39 for a call-back to simply to find out how to uninstall this background application.
I have searched the Adobe Support Forum for answers, and found that other people have similar issue, yet unable to find answers.
I have been using numerous Adobe products for over 15 years through my work. Never experienced this amount of problems in product and support prior to this situation.

click start>control panel>programs>uninstall programs and uninstall all adobe cc programs.
then run the cleaner, http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
restart your computer
any problem? if so, state specifics.

How to Close All Background Apps at Once on an iPhone, iPad?

Even it use battery or not, I want to learn a way to terminate all apps at once.
I hate to close background processes one by one. please post a message if you know any way or applicate does this.
thanks in advance,

Not possible.
FYI, the vast majority of those background apps are not open. More info on iOS multitasking...
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4211
http://whenwillapple.com/blog/2010/04/19/iphone-os-4-multitasking-explained-agai n/
http://www.macworld.com/article/1164616/how_ios_multitasking_really_works.html
http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html

Stopping background apps

SInce iod 7 the usual way of stopping background apps will no longer activate.
how do we do it now?
thanks

How to Close Apps
Double Tap the Home Button... Then swipe the App (not the icon) Upwards... Tap the Home Button when finished.
From Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4211

Background app refresh not working mail app

I have an Iphone 4 with the latest IOS7. Background app refresh is on but it's not working, at least for Mail and Mailbox app. I already tried reseting all settings and restarting.
This is what I do to test if it's working.
1) I send myself a test email
2) I wait to see if I get the badge count update (I get it in mailbox but I dont get it in Mail app)
3) I put the phone in airplane mode
4) I open the apps to see If the test email was download while I was on wifi and it's not there.
Also it's very strange that my mail app badge count doesn't get updated...

So here is what I ended up doing.
I did a fresh restore and logged into my icloud. I waited for all my calendars, contacts, reminders, ect. to sync and turned off icloud but selected the option to keep that data on my phone. Then I created a new icloud account and waited for the new data to sync to my new icloud. After that I performed another fresh restore but this time I logged into my new icloud. I downloaded "Newsify" again and waited for it to do the background app refresh and it did :). It turns out that it stopped doing it and it was the app the whole time of just buggy ios 7 so I restored from the backup I did before all of this and end of sotrie.

"Background App Refresh" does not refresh

I have trouble with my Podcasts app (it crashes when I open it) and I noticed the following bug:
If I go in "Setting > Podcasts", there is the option "Background App Refresh" switched on, and I can switch it off.
I switch it off.
I go back to setting and then again to "Setting > Podcasts", and the option "Background App Refresh" is still on!
Perhaps it is related to the fact that this app is not working anymore?
iPhone 5s
iOS 8.2
Podcasts 2.2 (740)

I thought the problem was solved after letting it update all the apps and sit for a while on a wifi network where I have unlimited data... Unfortunately when I tethered today it sucked down 40 megs with zero apps open. I turned off the wifi hotspot before it used more data.
What is it downloading???? This is really frustrating. I wish I could put ios 6 on this ipad.

No apps in Background App Refresh

Hi everybody,
I am using iphone 5s and ios 8.1
My apps (endomondo and gipis) stopped working correctly because they needed to be turn on in the Background App Refresh but there are no such apps there.
I cannot use my apps =(
Could you help with this issue?
Thank in advance.
Pavel

I have this issue as well for every running app I've tried (i.e. Endomondo, MapMyRun, RunKeeper) since the iOS 8 update. I've filed support tickets for both Endomondo and MapMyRun after @AppleSupport told me to contact the app developers directly. As of ~10 days ago, both support teams told me they're aware of the issue and working toward resolution. Nothing since then.

TS3274 Background apps. How to close apps running in the background.

I just down loaded iOS 7.1. Background apps closer problem. Double clicking home button no longer opens all my running apps. How will I close running background apps? Thank you.

Double-clicking home button should still work. Unless you changed something, perhaps in accessibility settings? Try varying the speed.
But there is an alternative: swipe with 4 or 5 fingers upward off the top, this should get you to the same place.

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