What happened to "Background Tasks" in 8.1?

[TenTwelve]

It seems like after the update my 1520 is chewing through battery much quicker than it normally did and I went to go see if any new background tasks got activated and the option is no longer there. :eck:

Edit: Never mind... I found it under Battery Saver. Man, every damn app that could run in the backgorund was running in the background after the update. I had to change nearly 2 dozen! lol

 

[kev0200]

that is now in battery saver, I had trouble finding it lol

 

[liam-ward]

It seems like after the update my 1520 is chewing through battery much quicker than it normally did and I went to go see if any new background tasks got activated and the option is no longer there. :eck:

Edit: Never mind... I found it under Battery Saver. Man, every damn app that could run in the backgorund was running in the background after the update. I had to change nearly 2 dozen! lol

Worth checking out asap as I had loads of apps which were allowed to work in the background.

 

[mariusmuntean]

?? I've been searching for this damn setting all day ))

 

[kxcd]

Yeah, I noticed too that after the 8.1 update, I had a bunch of apps that were all of a sudden "allowed" to run it the background. Had to turn those off...

 

[Chris_Kez]

Boy would it be nice if there was a way to filter or multi-select apps. Having to scroll through all of these apps even if they're not allowed or able to run in the background is a step backwards for the UI. Or maybe in addition to Usage and Settings pivots they could have also added "Background Tasks".

 

[jmerrey]

Really missing the option to turn the background task back on automatically when opening the app. Not sure why this has been removed.

 

[rangerdogy]

I was just looking into this also. Since updating to 8.1, Good for Enterprise is not updating its live tile. When I go into Battery Saver, it shows several applications as allowed to run in the background, but when I click on Good, it does not have an option to either allow or disallow its running in the background. Anybody have ideas?