Just wanted to chip in and confirm that I’m seeing the exact behaviour described here happening on my FP4. On A15, I can only use one or two apps simultaneously before all other (background) apps (including my third-party launcher) inevitably get killed within seconds of “inactivity”. This has NOT …

[image] Software Update: FP4.QREL.15.17.2.20260415141502 mobile_phone_with_arrow Optimized background process management for smoother multitasking Its fixed with this update

[image] Kelvin_Mui: Its been 3 months Yes, but they currently have 3 phone models (FP4, FP5, FP6), and each has its own A15 problems (just check the forum thread titles). This would put a strain even on a company with a more solid developer team. And among those phones FP4 is the oldest and p…

[image] KurtF: Yes, but they currently have 3 phone models (FP4, FP5, FP6), and each has its own A15 problems (just check the forum thread titles). This would put a strain even on a company with a more solid developer team. And among those phones FP4 is the oldest and probably most complicated (…

[image] loseyourself: we’d all be collectively happier if we got a status update Well, that is actually the general leitmotif of all Fairphone interactions (and the reason of ever-rising frustration and disappointment). :laughing: Somebody should print t-shirts with that phrase… :laughing:

In my case this has severely improved my situation, at least in the last 24 hours. I rebooted the phone after setting that option (it made sense to me, since that should apply to the entire operating system I guess), and now the phone seems much more reactive (it didn’t before rebooting). Also, I …

This just makes it worst. If the issues are across FP 4, 5 and 6, why didnt they pick this up before rolling out the update? Why cant they fix it even quicker because its affecting all their flagship phones? We dont want the latest Android updates. Just security and stability patches. If it aint b…

[image] Fairphone 4 home page loading laggy since Android 15 update Fairphone 4 Cleared app cache for GBoard, instant relief!

Any way to roll back to Android 13? That was stable for me at least, nowadays it’s a pain to try and listen to Spotify. If I lock the phone with something playing, it might continue to play, or it’ll kill the app in a few mins. But what most certainly will kill it is playing something while you try …

Still having very irritating issues with Strava being killed after allowing “Unrestricted” background usage. At least if it’s music that’s playing, you notice (obviously still very annoying), but in this case you only notice when you realise it hasn’t been tracking you for the past x-hours.

Android 15 has turned an amazing phone into one I wouldn’t recommend to anyone. Love the hardware but 15 has broken my phone! Mine’s still being killed all the time - can’t use 2fa to make purchases, music / audio players randomly stopping / not all photos saving / constantly (at least once per day…

FP4 (Android 15): Background apps being killed more aggressively

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dagguh January 20, 2026, 3:04pm 88