I agree. What's really broken is lack of a good feedback loop both to app developers and the OS vendors. It would be good if this translated to two things: - g

I agree. What's really broken is lack of a good feedback loop both to app developers and the OS vendors. It would be good if this translated to two things: - google mandates that killing background apps must be based on actual battery consumption - when an app that requested background permissions is background-killed, this is reported to the app developer and OS vendor in some sort of aggregate metrics they can see - users should get some kind of report or notification as well about it You would instantly see both OS vendors and app developers trying to optimise the battery life of their apps so that they can stay alive. Ideally, users who want to should be able to actually set thresholds on how much battery any app can consume. Eg: if I am OK that my phone only lasts an hour I should be allowed to tell it to keep my minecraft server on on the background so everyone can keep playing.