Android 15 takes killing an app to the next level

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Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority

• Android 15 will disable the home screen widget of any app that you kill.
• This prevents the app from effectively still running when youre attempting to force-stop it.
• The widget will be grayed out and wont start again until you relaunch the app.

A last resort when an app is playing up is to kill it by hitting Force Stop on the app management screen. While that terminates the app and its background activities, it doesnt currently disable any home screen widget that the app might have. Android 15 will reportedly disable the widget of a killed app until you manually launch it again.

As spotted by*Android Police, Google has updated the behavior changes section of its Android 15 developer website to indicate that when an app is force-stopped, all its widgets are temporarily disabled as the OS terminates or cancels the apps pending intents. The widgets will also be grayed out on the home screen and wont restart until you manually launch the app again, directly or indirectly.




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