THE real reason your iPhone battery life is draining might be tucked away in the Settings app. There are loads of ...

Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

Does Turning Off Background App Refresh Improve Battery Life? Turning off Background App Refresh can significantly improve your phone's battery life, especially if you're frequently away from a ...

If your iPhone battery drains faster after updating to iOS 26, wait 24–48 hours for background tasks to settle. Then update to iOS 26.1, restart your iPhone, check and update battery-draining apps, ...

Not that it was super sucky before. The one glaringly sucky thing about it has been de-suckified, however. From Google’s blog: The app now fully supports background app refresh, which means your Gmail ...

We all perform this iPhone maintenance ritual, but it's a mythical waste of time that's been around for years. Reading time 3 minutes Apple users seem unanimously convinced that closing background ...