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I think it’d be nice if the user could go into settings and opt apps into running in the background indefinitely (on iPhones too), but given how common it is fo

I think it’d be nice if the user could go into settings and opt apps into running in the background indefinitely (on iPhones too), but given how common it is for random junk to be sitting in the background sucking up CPU doing a lot of nothing on desktop OSes I don’t think that it should be something that apps can do out of the box, or even request permission for since too many users would absentmindedly grant permission to a bunch of apps and then wonder why their iPad only lasts 1h30m before running out of juice.

Jtsummers 2y ago
Add a second tray/location showing the still-running background applications (as opposed to the paused/killed ones that you can still switch to). Then the user can quickly see what's taking up resources and pause or kill it themselves, optionally moving applications between the unkillable and killable locations. No need to dive into per-app settings except maybe to determine the default behavior. You can do this dynamically based on which applications are running that you'd like to keep running (or not). They could even justifiably restrict this capability to the M-series iPads given the substantial performance improvements (including efficiency cores) compared to the older A-series iPads if they wanted to create motivation to upgrade.