Glossary
Android settings glossary
Words you meet in phone settings and in "why are my notifications not arriving" advice. Each has a short explanation and the path to the setting on your brand.
- App freezer
- Freezer in HiOS and XOS: the app is stopped entirely and hidden.
- Autostart
- Permission for an app to launch by itself, without your tap.
- Background data
- An app’s right to use the network when it is not on screen.
- Battery optimisation
- Limits on background work that Android sets to save charge.
- Do Not Disturb
- A mode that silences notifications without cancelling them.
- Doze
- The sleep of a phone that lies still with the screen off.
- Exact alarms
- The permission without which a reminder arrives late.
- Lock in recents
- Pinning an app card so it survives clearing the list.
- Notification channels
- Categories of one app’s notifications, each with its own sound and importance.
- Notification permission
- The Android 13 dialog: refusing it turns off all of an app’s notifications.
- Sleeping apps
- Samsung lists an app lands in by itself if you do not open it.
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