Comments on: How to Stop Apps From Being Killed Automatically in Android Marshmallow and Nougat

By: Alex Angeles

Alex Angeles — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 19:13:00 +0000

is still exiting my automatic call recorder android 7.1.1

By: d0x360

d0x360 — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:56:00 +0000

That doesn’t always work. I can’t get PewDiePie’s tuber sim to stop being killed on my pixel XL, sometimes after only opening the google text app and the a news app. I come back, it’s been 2 min and the apps been closed.

Batt optimization is off on the app, I have plenty of free ram yet it’s still being closed.

By: Waqar Ahmad

Waqar Ahmad — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 15:03:00 +0000

thanks its clear

By: dsp4

dsp4 — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 18:28:00 +0000

Thanks so much for sharing this.

I’ve had so many instances of switching between apps then loosing what I was doing in the first one because it was too eagerly closed. I just tried adjusting the battery optimisation setting and it fixed it. The app keeps running until I manually kill it in the recents screen.

The latest versions of Android are way too aggressive in their app-closing behavior, which is exacerbated by the way they try to use as much RAM as possible for speed, killing anything that’s not immediately used in the process. Fortunately, the OS is well crafted and lets you adjust the behavior like you’ve shown.

By: Roshen Ramanayake

Roshen Ramanayake — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 10:38:00 +0000

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By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 20:07:00 +0000

I thought this was the solution to the frequent interruption of TalkStreamLive, TuneIn, Pandora, SiriusXM, etc. which have to be restarted after a few minutes of play but, alas, it is not. I changed those apps per your instructions re:battery settings but it’s still happening. I was able to correct this issue on my Note 5 some time ago by preventing “battery saving” which is not an option on my Note 4. This issue started with my Note 4 immediately after it upgraded to 6.0.1. Any ideas? Thanks, Sharon

By: mohamed osman

mohamed osman — Sat, 27 May 2017 13:40:00 +0000

you are a life saver!!! thanks!! 😀 😀

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 15 May 2017 20:26:00 +0000

On my Samsung Galaxy the path is Settings, Device Maintenance, Battery, Then scroll to bottom of battery and click on Unmonitored Apps. Here you can choose which apps won’t be put to sleep.

By: Cheri

Cheri — Thu, 04 May 2017 18:56:00 +0000

Yeah I’m on a Samsung and finding the settings on my end aren’t the same. Perhaps I’m just too stupid to figure it out, but I am ready to throw my phone in the garbage. Four hours is a laughably short time to quit an app. I check twitter, texts, and fitbit throughout the day. Constantly re-starting them irritates me to no end.