If you are concerned about your apps eating up your data in the background, when they are not actually in use, they have come to the right place. A quick and easy way to stop this background usage is by turning off a feature called Background App Refresh present in iOS. With this feature turned off, all the apps will stay in pause, and until they are on-screen under direct use by the user, they won’t transmit any form of data in the background.
Apple says that the Background App refresh feature “allows apps to refresh their content when on Wi-Fi or cellular in the background.” This basically means that the apps will have access to the internet connection even when the app is just running in the background. So obviously leaving it on will result in higher battery consumption, while turning it off might go along in saving you those extra minutes with the battery. Performance-wise though, nothing will change as iOS is very well optimized, and disabling or enabling this feature won’t jeopardize that.
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Steps to Disable Background App Refresh Feature on iOS devices :
The steps are actually very easy and straightforward.
- Go to settings.
- Tap on “general,” which will take you to another menu.
- Here you will find an option called “Background App Refresh,” simply tap on it.
- Now you will see the toggle to turn this feature off or on. Since it is already running, tap on it, and it will be turned.
- Exit settings.
Now when the power saving mode is turned on in your device, this feature is automatically turned off. But it is obviously temporary and will stay like that until the battery saving mode is turned on. So the toggle to turn this feature on or off manually in settings will not work during that too. This is because the battery saving mode already restricts it. To be able to manually control the settings like it is mentioned in the above steps, make sure to keep the battery saving mode turned off.