Background App Refresh On iPhone 7 And iPhone 7 Plus

For those that recently purchased an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus, you may want to know how to stop background app refresh from using mobile data. This could be important for those that have a limited amount of mobile Internet data, and don’t want to waste it on apps running in the background refreshing. The best you can do this is by using the feature called Background App Refresh on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. This feature allows you to control which apps have access to your mobile data and update in the background when you’re not using the app on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.

The main reason that you would want to use the Background App Refresh is to reduce that amount of data that your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus uses. For those that are always on your iPhone and have several apps running in the background, this requires your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus to constantly ping the Internet for apps like Weather, Maps, Mail and others. For some, this kills your mobile data and it could be idea to disable the background app update feature. waste of your data for apps to be doing this, which is why it’s a good idea to disable the feature.

Below we’ll explain how you can make it so a select number of apps will only connect to the Internet when you’ve got a Wi-Fi connection.

Disabling Background App Refresh on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

1. Turn on your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus.
2. From the Home screen, open the Settings app.
3. Select on General.
4. Select on Background App Refresh.
5. From the list of apps, change the toggle to OFF for the apps that you don’t want to refresh in the background.