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.

OpenAI must now contend with a new legal hurdle: a Northern California judge has issued a temporary restraining order forcing the company to cease using the word "Cameo" with its Sora app. The order, ...

After revamping the multitasking experience in iPadOS 26 by adding window tiling and background processing, Apple is slowly bringing back some useful features from past iPadOS versions. With iPadOS 26 ...

Google is expanding access to its Journal app beyond the Pixel 10, bringing it to Pixel 8 and Pixel 9 devices with the November 2025 Feature Drop. The AI-powered journaling app, built on Gemini Nano, ...

With the November 2025 Feature Drop, Google is bringing a slew of features to older Pixel devices, including the Journal app. After introducing with the Pixel 10, Google is bringing the Journal app to ...

Worried about apps secretly tracking your location? 'The Times of India's' 'Hack of the Day' reveals how to regain control on both Android and iPhone. Learn to restrict background access, choose ...

There are three things that are certain in life: death, taxes, and Google restricting background work. With every new Android release, Google seemingly further restricts what apps running in the ...

Apple is preparing a significant update in iOS 26.1 that allows third-party photo apps to back up images automatically in the background, fulfilling a long-standing developer request. This new ...

Apple is working on a new framework that will allow third-party photo apps to back up images more reliably. Here are the details. Alongside the (likely) final stages of development ahead of the ...

This tip was performed on an iPhone 16 running iOS 26. Find out how to update to the latest version of iOS. The new Apple Preview app lets users access data from their iPhone or iPad Files app, use ...

PC gamers may see the Background services have been disabled error in the EA app while launching or playing a game on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer. This ...