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i have recently upgraded to an iPhone 16 pro and as many others seem to have an issue with bad battery life. So amongst many checks I have made sure that Background app refresh is turned off in my settings. However, when I go into settings for specific apps it is still on and greyed out so that I can’t even change it… how can I really turn off background app refresh?
You’ve already turned it off. It’s off. When you enable background refresh again, Amazon will automatically start refreshing.
I have nearly 500 apps on my iPhone. When I turn off background refresh and turn on again, I don’t want to manually go through 500 apps individually turning them on or leaving off.
Yes, have turned it off as you described under settings and that’s all good. But when I go into settings for a specific App (under Settings > Apps > any app e.g. Amazon) background app refresh shows as on and is greyed out so can’t turn off).
Do you have background app refresh turned off in Settings > General > Background App Refresh? If so, you turned them off and greyed them out when you turned off refresh.
Background app refresh turned off but still working in apps
