I agree, actually. One thing I like about Windows Phone is the scheduled background agents - you can request the OS run a background agent on a schedule, and it

I agree, actually. One thing I like about Windows Phone is the scheduled background agents - you can request the OS run a background agent on a schedule, and it will allow your application to update or sync data on a fairly regular basis even while running on battery, though with limits - and if the device is plugged in and connected to WiFi you get increased limits to do some more intense tasks. I don't need my photos to sync automatically draining battery and wasting data while I am on the mobile network, but when I'm at home for the night and my phone is charging is a perfect change for things to do big syncs like that. EDIT: Apple kind of added some similar functionality with background app refresh, but the fact that the system tries really hard to "guess" which apps you want updated and which you don't doesn't work so well - I am constantly having to launch SyncSolver to get it to post my Apple Watch steps to fitbit. Just let the apps I set to refresh run on a regular schedule, I can control what I don't want to update.