In either case, disabling
background refresh of registry processing prevents the system from updating affected policies in the background, while the computer is in use.
Also, many apps employ background processes that use precious resources, such as the
aforementioned background refresh, so uninstalling apps you don't use can go a long way.
And apps with watchOS's
new background refresh technology embedded launch up to seven times faster than their watchOS 2 compatriots.
Google has started rolling out an update to Gmail for iOS — Gmail version 3.0 — which comes
with background refresh.
«We haven't been able to make Complications until now
because background refresh was too slow and you would get more value on the phone than on the watch and obviously that's bad.
A bug that has been found in
the Background Refresh feature, which is a new way to multitask in iOS 7, is affecting some of the most popular apps in the App Store.
For any app that has
a background refresh, you'll want to turn the refresh rate up or even off completely.
They don't have the ability to use «
background refresh» — so, for example, the Yahoo! Weather widget here isn't automatically checking for new weather throughout the day.
Go into Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turn off
background refresh for that specific app.
There's a long of all your installed apps, next to which you can disable each one's
background refresh, if you want.
Also for most users, this is fine, in some environments, system administrators may want to disable
background refresh of registry and background updates can disrupt the user, cause a program to stop or operate abnormally, and, in rare cases, damage data.
NOTE: The policy Turn off
background refresh of Group Policy overrides over policies Set Group Policy refresh interval for computers and Set Group Policy refresh interval for users which handles the refreshing time of Group Policy to update itself in background while we're working on computer.
In the right pane, look for the setting Turn off
background refresh of Group Policy.
This includes apps that drain your battery in the background — something that's possible on iOS since Apple added the «
background refresh» feature in iOS 7.
If you do not want Group Policy to be updated while the computer is in use, you will have to configure Turn off
background refresh policy — and if the Disable background refresh of Group Policy policy is enabled, this policy is ignored.
Apps that work in
the background refresh their content automatically, which can drain the battery.
Note that push notifications will still work just fine for all your apps, even if you disable
background refresh.
Find the most battery hungry apps and disable
the background refresh for some of them you don't need to run in the background.
The background refresh feature in Gmail app helps users