In a digital age where visuals play an important function in messaging, background changer applications have actually become a crucial device for content developers, designers, digital ...

If your Mac is laboring under the load of applications running in the background that aren't even really doing anything, St. Clair Software's new AppTamer may provide the respite you need. It can stop ...

Android P, the next major version of the Android operating system, will block idle (background) applications from accessing a smartphone's camera or microphone.

Google is taking considerable steps to turn misbehaving, battery-draining apps into good citizens with Android Oreo.

With that in mind, if Apple has already established a paradigm for running background apps on the tablet, it would make sense to finally bring it over to the iPhone too.

Learn a few ways to interact with applications in the background, without bringing them to the foreground.

As great as the iPhone is, it has one glaring weakness: The inability to run third-party applications in the background. That badly cripples certain types of apps, such as those that do instant ...

OS X can, to a limited extent, interact with background applications. For instance, you can move background windows around without activating them–just hold down the Command key and then click ...