My iPhone 8 plus is running continuously in the background. Every time I open my phone, I see the circle spinning at the top of the screen, like when you are searching the Internet. Does anyone know how to stop this? I have rebooted it and it goes away but keeps returning. It is eating up my gigabytes and battery.
iPhone 8 Plus
It is more than likely an app running in the background and getting stuck on its process. The way to troubleshoot is this is to ➔ Force Close all the Apps running in the background. Once that his done then ➔ Force ReStart Your iPhone.
The next step is to turn OFF Background App Refresh by opening Settings ➔ General ➔ Background App Refresh and then turning all the Apps to OFF. Turn them ON one by one and see if the "spinning circle" returns and isolate that app.
Axel F.
It is more than likely an app running in the background and getting stuck on its process. The way to troubleshoot is this is to ➔ Force Close all the Apps running in the background. Once that his done then ➔ Force ReStart Your iPhone.
The next step is to turn OFF Background App Refresh by opening Settings ➔ General ➔ Background App Refresh and then turning all the Apps to OFF. Turn them ON one by one and see if the "spinning circle" returns and isolate that app.
Axel F.
Before you do that, try resetting your network settings. Open Settings ➔ General ➔ Reset ➔ Reset Network Settings. What this will do is reset your network settings and refresh network connections. You will need to entire all your WiFi passwords again as you connect to different networks. See if that resolves it.
Axel F.
The turning circle means that data is being sent or received. It does not mean that anything is “running”.
Thank you for your help Axel. Oh my background app are turned off and this continues. I’m don’t know what to do. Maybe reset the phone??
Thank you! It seems to have gone away. I tried this before, but the turning circle seems to return in no time. I’m keeping my fingers crossed, maybe it will work this time.
Did it go away after you reset network settings or it is just gone on its own?
Axel F.
It has gone away but I've done this before and it has returned. Keeping my fingers crossed it stays away!! Thanks!
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