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Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by jen20 on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:09AM (#44297723)
> The fun fact is that those people have 100+ apps on their phones, which run in the background, draining their batteries, tracking the sh*t out of them,

This is wildly untrue on iOS. Perhaps people have 100+ apps. But the rest, not so much.

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Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by sebastiennight on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:26AM (#44297823)
You're saying that having all the apps open at the same time won't drain the iPhone's battery?

Because normal people just never close apps. Are they silently shut down/paused after a while?

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Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by maineldc on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @08:11AM (#44298150)
Yes - on iOS only a few things can be done in the background but most apps are frozen eventually when the are no longer in the foreground.
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Re:WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App by jen20 on Thursday June 19, 2025 @10:47AM (#44319188)
> Are they silently shut down/paused after a while?

Yes. This has been the case since 2008 when the first version of iOS supporting third-party apps was released. Background refresh allows some quanta of work do be done when an app is not in the foreground, but only limited things.

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