How To Turn OFF Background Apps On Xperia XZ

For those that have a Sony Xperia XZ that has a battery losing power and dying fast or been running slow, it could be because of open background apps. These extra apps running in the background of your smartphone like email, social networking and daily lifestyle apps search the Internet on a regular basis trying to update these apps, which makes your phone slow and kiils the battery fast.

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 the Xperia XZ.

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

How to close background applications:

1. Turn on the Xperia XZ
2. Select the Recent app sbutton from the home screen
3. Select the Active apps icon
4. Select End next to the required application. Alternatively, select End all
5. If prompted, Select OK

How to close and disable background data for all services:

1. Turn on the Xperia XZ
2. Go to settings and select, Data usage
3. Open the context menu by tapping the three dots in the upper right corner of the screen
4. Uncheck “Auto sync data”
5. Select Ok

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

1. Turn on the Xperia XZ
2. From the settings menu, select Accounts
3. Select Google
4. Select the name of your account
5. Uncheck the Google services you wish to disable in the background

How to disable background data for Twitter:

1. Turn on the Xperia XZ
2. From the settings menu select Accounts
3. Select Twitter
4. Uncheck “Sync Twitter”

Facebook requires you to disable background data from their own menus, follow these instructions:

1. Turn on the Xperia XZ
2. Go to the Facebook settings menu
3. Select “Refresh Interval”
4. Select Never