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Although you only see one app at a time while using an iPad, behind the screen your iPad can be bustling with activity -- playing music, checking stock reports, or waiting for the latest news alerts ...

Google Maps isn't the only thing melting your phone on your summer road trip.

MacRumours has "heard" that Apple might let iPhone users keep apps running in the background when not actively in use. Your 'Yes, and?' comments are not entirely unexpected, so let us explain why this ...

For years there have been popular apps that claim to make Android phones faster, but actually just kill background processes en masse which does more harm than good. But with Android 14, Google is ...

When Apple initially announced the iPhone SDK, there was much dismay over the lack of background process capabilities, which disallows third-party applications to, for instance, notify the user of ...

There have been varying reports of the mediaanalysisd background process causing excessive CPU usage in macOS when scanning photos. Here's what it is, what it does, and how to stop it. The internet ...

Jon Gilbert is a Features Writer for Android Police. I've covered Android since 2021, focusing on writing features and guides about Android apps and features that directly affect users. I've attended ...

One of the nifty things about a computer is its ability to perform many tasks simultaneously–while a user is composing a word doc, that same computer might also be performing a database search, ...

Back in March, when we first learned the details behind the upcoming iPhone SDK, I wrote about Apple’s decision to not allow background applications on the iPhone. As described in Apple’s Human ...