Android Oreo has done a great deal to help prevent excessive battery drain. With a brand new API geared toward limiting background usage, apps tin no longer run away and drain your bombardment. Still for this to work, an app developer must have employed the new API. Since not every app developer has followed adjust with that, is it even possible to foreclose those older, non-complying apps from wasting precious battery? Fortunately, the answer to that question is a resounding aye.

I want to evidence you how to disable background action for those misbehaving apps. Practise sympathize this comes with a caveat: Those apps that you disable the background activity for might not function as expected. Notifications can be delayed and other odd behavior might appear. However, if battery life has become an issue with a must-have app (one that doesn't take reward of the new Oreo API level), this might be your only pick until the developer rebuilds their app to come across the Oreo standards.

With that caveat out in the open, let'southward run across how to disable groundwork activity in an app that is pummeling your battery.

Disabling background action

To disable background activity for an app, open up Settings and become to Apps & Notifications. Inside that screen, tap on See all X apps (where X is the number of apps you have installed – Figure A).

Figure A

In one case you've tapped the offending app, tap the Battery entry. In the resulting screen (Figure B), tap the On/Off slider to disable groundwork activity.

Effigy B

Congratulations, that app will be prevented from working in the background–thereby not draining your battery. The only time that app will work is when it's open. Close the app and activeness will cease.

Enable background activity

The side by side time that offending app gets an update, I would recommend going back and enabling groundwork activeness. To do that, simply reverse the process outlined higher up. If you find the app is no longer gobbling upwards your bombardment, go out background action enabled. If the app goes back to draining the bombardment, disable groundwork activity. Repeat this until the programmer finally rebuilds the app with the new API and your battery is safe from drainage.

Non perfect

In a perfect world, all app developers will be using the new API. Since nosotros're non existing in a perfect world, there will be apps that might go along to drain the battery on your Android device. If you find that happening, you lot at present take the power at your fingertips to end this unwanted activity.