Feature request for auto force stop

[TowelieTheTowel420]

Would like an auto force stop for apps that are cached in background. I.e. like apps running that aren't being used or running with like a select button to select certain apps to force stop or an app ignore list for certain apps. Would be nice

[d4rken]

Hm, not sure if in scope. SD Maid is not a "task killer". You can manually force-stop apps via AppControl already though. I don't see a good way to make this automatic though and I'm not sure whether it's a good think to add.

Are you looking for something like this?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchingnow.icebox

[TowelieTheTowel420]

No not really I just wanna force stop certain apps that are cached in background and didn't fully shut off ie like YouTube so I didn't have to open app settings to force stop. Cause it's battery usage pulling on battery in background ImmortalTowel Sent from Proton Mail Android

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On 5/23/24 10:59 PM, Matthias Urhahn wrote: Hm, not sure if in scope. SD Maid is not a "task killer". You can manually force-stop apps via AppControl already though. I don't see a good way to make this automatic though and I'm not sure whether it's a good think to add. Are you looking for something like this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchingnow.icebox — Reply to this email directly, [view it on GitHub](#1177 (comment)), or [unsubscribe](https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/BIQZBDQ3OZ4QXKIMKYPPLMLZD23JNAVCNFSM6AAAAABIGZQQJWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDCMRYGQ3TQNZXGE). You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[MarkyMarkDE]

I would also vote for such a improvement. Some current running apps will never cleaned with sdmaid-se e.g. Playstore and the Play Services App and this cause always trouble, when you payed for an app and you always loose the premium features as you payed for. In such cases you must kill both, clear cache and sometimes their data and restart the Playstore App, then is all fine and you never lost again the payed premium for this app. Unfortunately, SDMaid SE don't note anything that such a app couldn't be cleaned, it seems that all is fine, but it isn't 😔

[MicroBeast]

Isn't "Auto" mean adding somekind of service to monitor that (continuesly)? That service alone will eat battery. Then doing its actual job in stopping apps that you use will eat battery than just let the target app Sleeping in background (for quick start etc.)

Apps like Youtube, Gplay, or Gplay Service Framework usually System Apps. Stopping apps like that is useless as they designed to always Wake Up. It means continues (try to) Stopping, eating even more battery.

The answer to no caches and no battery drain is Disable or Uninstall I believe.

[jeyjai]

@TowelieTheTowel420 This is what you're looking for
http://github.com/visnkmr/backgroundappslist

Its not automated in that app but you can choose "close multiple", select the apps you want to close.
It will automatically bring them up one after another but you still have to manually press the "force close" button and then the back button to close it, and the next will pop up

[MeloriTensei]

@TowelieTheTowel420 This is what you're looking for http://github.com/visnkmr/backgroundappslist

Its not automated in that app but you can choose "close multiple", select the apps you want to close. It will automatically bring them up one after another but you still have to manually press the "force close" button and then the back button to close it, and the next will pop up

What if we can make AppControl use Accessibility Service to automate mass task kill? That should probably bring more worth to the app, right?

[Zafrkant]

Thank developer for great contribution to the community.

I would like also to see, solution like https://gitlab.com/SuperFreezZ/SuperFreezZ, requiring accessibility to perform task, including system apps, of course if it would be inline with project future plans.

Thank you in advance.

[realAllonZ]

A "simple" solution may be to add AppControl Force stop app exclusions in the App Exclusions Manager.

This would make it possible to select all apps in AppControl and then Force stop apps to quickly and easily stop only unnecessary apps that are not whitelisted in the App Exclusions Manager.

If this can be done it could resolve this feature request and many other similar issues and discussions.

[jeyjai]

A "simple" solution may be to add AppControl Force stop app exclusions in the App Exclusions Manager.

@d4rken
Not really, most of us in here just looking for something that shows currently running processes in the background even after "closing" it by swiping it away.
https://github.com/visnkmr/backgroundappslist

Does this exact thing and only shows the ones running in the background. That app lets you select multiple apps to close all of them at the same time by opening the app info page for each and every one app one at the time forcing you to manually click the force close button and click the back button for the next app info page for the next step open and click first close on that app.

I'm just suggesting to show a list of processes running in the background just like that https://github.com/visnkmr/backgroundappslist does and just like you use your app to clear cache by pressing the clear cash button using the accessibility setting you can do the same thing by force closing them instead.

Please try https://github.com/visnkmr/backgroundappslist and use it to close multiple apps at the same time through the button at the top and use instantly say what I mean

This would not only add an amazingly useful feature to your app but it would also merge with other apps created simply for that purpose, making your app I want to stop shop for everything