Background App Refresh on iOS Primer Tutorial

Background App Refresh on iOS Primer Tutorial

Background App Refresh on iOS Primer Tutorial

Are you the owner of an iPhone or iPad? Welcome to the iOS wooooorrrrrlllllldddd! And are you baffled when people say about an app …

Just refresh the app for the latest features.

? Well, that’s me, too. But your iPhone and iPad are designed to allow for …


Background App (Automatic) Refreshing

This feature is in …

  • Settings ->
  • General ->
  • Background App Refresh

If you go there, though, it could be set to “Off”, rather than “Wi-Fi” or “Wi-Fi & Mobile Data”. For us, the reason ours was off was that we hadn’t visited this “Background App Refresh” setting at a time when our iPhone was on mains power. Supply the mains power and we next saw that setting set to “Wi-Fi & Mobile Data” ready to “refresh” the iOS apps that might be asking to be refreshed … automatically. Aaaaahhh, what a relief.

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