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How to Stop Apps From Running in the Background on Samsung
Too many background apps can make your phone feel slow and sluggish. On Samsung devices, you can easily manage unwanted apps to ensure optimal performance.
How to Put Apps to Sleep on Samsung
Samsung phones come with a lot of pre-installed apps, and the greater the number of apps on your phone, the higher the chance of them running in the background. This not only depletes the battery faster but also hogs processing power and hence slows down your phone.
To fix this, Samsung allows you to put apps you don't often use to sleep. To do this, head over to Settings > Battery > Background usage limits.
Here, toggle on Put unused apps to sleep. This allows your phone to spot idle apps and automatically put them to sleep.
To do this manually, you have two options: Sleeping apps or Deep sleeping apps. The former run in the background only occasionally, so you'll still receive their notifications, but they may be delayed. This is ideal for social media apps, mobile games, streaming apps, and similar.
The latter never run in the background and only work when you open them, so you may miss their notifications entirely. This is ideal for pre-installed Samsung apps you never use, such as AR Zone, Galaxy Themes, AR Emoji Editor, Samsung Max, or Samsung Kids.
In the menu, simply tap the + icon and select your desired apps.
Some apps require running in the background all the time to function correctly. These are called memory resident apps. However, having too many of these apps can affect performance.
So, you should review them and put the ones you don't find useful to sleep. To do this, go to Settings > Device care > Memory > Memory resident apps.
Following these tips should keep your phone running like new. Don't go overboard when putting apps to deep sleep, though, as they take slight