Google Play Protect works to keep your device and data safe from
misbehaving apps by scanning over 50 billion apps per day, even the ones you haven't installed yet.
It alerts you to problems so you can kill
misbehaving apps yourself.
If you dig deep enough, you'll find useful repair and reset buttons that can help you quickly fix
a misbehaving app.
It's also possible that you have
a misbehaving app that's causing Runtime Broker to use more resources than it should.
Head into Settings > Battery to track down
the misbehaving app, and hit Force stop to remove it from running in the background.
Not exact matches
In my experiment when I turned off auto start for even just one
app, Google Play Store starts to
misbehave.
I seem to encounter more problems with force - closes, freezes and
apps misbehaving on Onyx devices, except the Boox M96, which I rarely have any problems with.
From safe mode, you can uninstall
misbehaving third - party
apps.
To pin down the
app that's
misbehaving, you can try the Watchdog Task Manager
app — it will show you which
apps are actually using CPU in the background, not which
apps are harmlessly being stored in memory.
This shouldn't be necessary, but can help when you want to quickly kill an
app — perhaps it's
misbehaving.
On Android, where
apps have more freedom to
misbehave thanks to a more flexible process model, bad
apps could run in the background while your phone is off, consuming CPU resources.
We did find some
apps misbehaving on the Mi A1 initially but a few software patches seem to have ironed out these rough spots.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg — Oreo has a picture - in - picture mode, an Autofill service that remembers your
app login passwords, and a battery - optimizing task manager that quashes
misbehaving background
apps.
otherwise some
app will
misbehave and create new bugs.
You'll also find other older
apps that don't resize and hang when you try to minimize them or just want to
misbehave in a desktop environment.