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Why do push notifications work the way they do
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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2025
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The problem isn't really 40 apps keeping connections open. That shouldn't cause much battery drain or RAM usage. Really really heavy emphasis on "shouldn't".
Too many shitty apps that keep doing shit when running in the background instead of just waiting for data to arrive. So Google takes the sledgehammer approach and just doesn't let apps do that and instead makes them rely on Google's one dedicated background app that they know behaves.
Good guy Google. Guess what? The developer of apps can deliberately hide or delay the push notifications if it detects its background optimization is enabled. Really, really emphasize on "can", not "should".