If you’re cool with that, go ahead and turn it off. Keep in mind, however, by doing this you’re completely disabling this notification for all apps-not just the one that’s showing up right now. When the notification shows up, slide it over to the right. If you’re using a Pixel 2 device or running Android 8.1 on your Nexus 6P, 5X, or original Pixel, then not only did Google change the verbiage of the notification, but they also included a way to disable it completely using Android’s notification channels. How to Disable the “Is Using Battery” Notification in Android 8.1 and on the Pixel 2 You’ll either need to change a setting within the app or uninstall it altogether.Īs long as you understand that and still want to remove it, let’s do this thing. There’s a reason this notification exists, and getting rid of it will do nothing to solve the underlying issue. It’s worth noting, though, removing the notification does not solve the issue.

Honestly, because people just hate superfluous notifications-even ones that are useful, such as this one. Often, however, apps are running in the background unjustifiably.

NOTE: There are a few legitimate scenarios where an app will continuously run in the background, like the VPN service running in the above screenshot.

Essentially, if an app is running in the background and chewing up battery life, this notification will tell you. With Oreo, Google is calling out developers that let their apps do this sort of thing with the new notification. Left: Android 8.0 Right: Android 8.1/Pixel 2 In most scenarios, these misbehaving apps would wreak havoc on the battery by keeping the system awake-these are called “wakelocks.” In laymen’s terms, it was keeping the system from sleeping. In the main interface, select ' Messages ' app from its message types drop-down list. Go to App Store on your iPhone, Input ' FancyBubble ' in the search bar, install and run it on your iPhone. Before we talk about how to get rid of it, however, let’s talk about why it’s there in the first place.īasically, in previous versions of Android, there was no real way of knowing if an app was running in the background doing a bunch of stuff it’s not supposed to be doing. So there are some apps that support to change text messages background on iPhone. Once you have successfully sent notification messages while your app is in the background, see Receive Messages in an Android App to get started sending to foregrounded apps.

Text message background app