How To Turn OFF Background App On Android 6.0 Marshmallow

If your smartphone is operating on Android 6.0 Marshmallow has been running slow and the battery is dying fast, it could be because of all the extra apps running in the background. When your email, social networking and daily lifestyle apps search the Internet on a regular basis trying to update these apps, it doesn’t help your smartphone that much. All these applications searching the web for new emails, and updates use a lot of bandwidth and battery life; slowing down the smartphone. It’s a much better idea to just update these apps manually on your own to save the battery life on your smartphone when running the Android Marshmallow 6.0 operating system.

For those who have just started using the Android operating system and want to know how to close and turn off background apps on your smartphone, we’ll explain below.

How to close background applications on Android 6.0:

Turn on your smartphone
Select the Recent apps button from the home screen
Select the Active apps icon
Select End next to the required application. Alternatively, select End all
If prompted, Select OK

How to disable background data for Gmail and other Google services:

Turn on your smartphone
From the settings menu, select Accounts
Select Google
Select the name of your account
Uncheck the Google services you wish to disable in the background

How to close and disable background data for all services on Android 6.0:

Turn on your smartphone
Go to settings and select, Data usage
Open the context menu by tapping the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen
Uncheck “Auto sync data”
Select Ok

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