Background application management

摘要

The techniques and systems disclosed herein generally pertain to managing permissions for applications to allow the applications to run in a background state by an operating system. In some embodiments, user interfaces may be used to allow users to manage application permissions without requiring the user to understand specifics of background applications, but rather by providing a predetermined threshold number of permissions that the user can assign to applications. When the predetermined threshold number of permissions has been allocated and a subsequent application requests a permission, the user may replace or swap out an application that currently has a permission by giving the permission to the requesting application.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by an operating system executed by one or more processors, a request for an application to run in a background state; determining a quantity of applications that have permission to run in the background state; determining whether the quantity of applications is less than a predetermined threshold number of applications that have permission to run in the background state; in response to determining that the quantity of applications is less than the predetermined threshold number, permitting the application to run in the background state following receipt of a user approval of the request; in response to determining that the quantity of applications is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold number, providing an option to reassign a permission that was granted to another application, the option enabling receipt of the user approval of the request; and preventing the application from running in the background state after receipt of a user rejection of the request.