Background noise in a video can be distracting and make the video less watchable. Most devices pick up background noise immediately as they record the video. Background noise can occur for a variety ...

From its earliest incarnations, Android has always supported background apps. Granted, they would wreck your battery in the early days and slow down your phone. Things have gotten better, but there's ...

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 ...

F-Droid maintains a repository of free and open source (FOSS) Android apps, and the F-Droid client for Android devices basically functions as an alternative to the default app store on most Android ...

Even though they are fundamentally similar devices, we use smartphones and PCs in completely different ways. It's not uncommon to have dozens or even hundreds of processes running in the background on ...

Android’s open nature leads to some disparity with how apps and features can work across devices from different smartphone makers. Over the last couple of years, background app performance has been a ...

Google will introduce new requirements to limit Android manufacturers’ power over background apps. The new rules aim to address some OEMs’ aggressive management of useful background apps and services.

Chrome for Android’s “Listen to this page” feature is likely to soon support background playback. This will mean users can continue listening to online articles, even if the Chrome app is not open or ...