Others, however, don’t really need to be working in the background. Android ... indicates an app, but that app is displaying a notification related to a foreground service, then the system ...

Future Android versions may end up taking it easy on background apps. This information comes ... the change for Android 13’s Generic Kernel Image (GKI). Another commit shows that it could ...

Under the hood, though, there’s more on the way, including the ability for Android 14 to show apps that were installed in the background by your smartphone manufacturer or carrier – or by ...