In certain situations, the Background App Refresh toggle may be greyed out on your iPhone, meaning you will not be able to turn it on even if you want to. Here are a couple of reasons why it might be happening:Case 1: Low Power Mode is enabledWhen Low Power Mode is enabled, Back...
Apple says that Background App Refresh “allows apps to refresh their content when on Wi-Fi or cellular in the background”, meaning when the app is not in use but still connected to an internet connection. Disabling this feature on the iPhone or iPad is easy, and most users probably won...
See which apps have background app refresh enabled? I have the slider for background app refresh set to “off.” However, I have some apps that DO use that function, meaning I must have manually turned on background app refresh for those apps. My question is: how do I see a list of...
You can also hide or disable apps on your iPhone to gain privacy from family members, friends, or anyone else who might be snooping on your app setup. iPhones let you restrict background app refresh to Wi-Fi only — meaning that refresh data usage will happen only if you’re on Wi-Fi...
meaning we can't simply send a silent push on data change. What we were originally thinking was a sort of crowd-source involving a combination of silent push and background refresh, but refresh won't work if the user closes the app. I've read all the given reasons for this, and thoug...
and IF/when i would need to use an app, i would go to the app and turn back on for better performance (ie: pandora, or netflix) now, if/when i add an app, it's added with the BACKGROUND APP REFRESH "button" ticked ON(green) but greyed out (meaning i can NOT / do NOT hav...
Next, get aUIToolbarand place it to the bottom of the screen. Select the existing bar button item, and set itsIdentifiertoRefresh. Also, get aFlexible Space Bar Button Itemand add it to the left of the existing bar button item. Here it is: ...
This will refresh the YouTube video into the desktop version of YouTube Start playing the song or video in YouTube, and wait for any advertisements to complete Now press the Safari Tabs button, it looks like two overlapping squares Switch to a new tab, or create a new tab and load any...
I only have access to the notification when the 'OnNotificationReceived' event from the one signal plugin is triggered, which is not the case for some reason when I close the app and send a notification. I'm not in low power mode, so the background app refresh options is en...
OmniFocus for iPhone got an update today which lets it refresh itself in the background, in what is probably a foreshadowing of things to come in iOS7. It uses the now-familiar workaround of location-based updates, which lets an app download data in the background when you arrive or ...