How To Turn OFF Auto Sync On Galaxy S9 And Galaxy S9 Plus

Smart apps work with all kinds of smartphones, and if you own Samsung’s latest flagship phone, the Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9, your phone isn’t an exception. That only implies that a lot of them, that be it any app, some daily lifestyle apps, any kind of social networking apps, or even an email app, are quite able of operating in the device’s background without you knowing. The reason as to why it occurs is that it continually search the Net for software updates, in order to upgrade and enhanced its overall performance.

Yes, we know that this automatic update is really useful at times, given it enables us to automized the enhancing the overall performance of an app. However, there are a lot of drawbacks with the auto sync data feature. Particularly, because the feature runs silently on your background, it left us all clueless on what is really occurring on your Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9 Plus and its apps. The most constant speculations these users states is that their smartphone’s battery dies quickly and at some point in time, they experience lags and crashes on it.

If you already managed to connect all the dots, you’ll see that the auto-sync feature is the main culprit. When applications surf their way to the Internet for notifications, updates, emails, etc., both the device’s battery life and the internet bandwidth becomes stirred.

The great news is that you’re still able to control these applications, ensuring that they’re updated, without having to encounter these issues. All you have to do is to manually update these applications. Keep in mind that the process of disabling your Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9’s background applications may differ from one application to another.

With this guide, we’ll be teaching you how to manage your Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9’s services and background apps, with some additional remarks for a few special applications.

Steps in Disabling and Closing your Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus’ Background Apps

If you’re planning to solve these issues, you may want to pay attention to both the services and the applications that operate on your Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9’s background. The difference between these two is crystal clear and the steps you need to perform in order to fix them.

Disabling your Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus’ Background Data and Services

Head to the Settings app
Open the Data Usage option
Press the 3-point symbol located at the top-right part of the window
A context menu shall appear on your screen. From there, untick the Auto Sync Data option
Lastly, press the OK button

Closing your Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus’ Background Data

Navigate to your Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus’ Home screen
Choose the Recent Apps option
Hit on the Active Apps symbols
Choose End All and OK if you want to shut down all the background applications
Or choose End next to the individual apps, if you are thinking to shut down particular applications on the list

Steps in Disabling and Closing your Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus’ Special Services

Once you’re in the process of doing these methods, you’ll discover that not all services and apps tend to the method above. When you encountered these applications, perform the following steps:

Deactivating the Twitter Background Data

Head to the Settings app
Press the Account options
Press the Twitter button
Remove the check from the Sync Twitter option

Deactivating the Facebook Background Data

Access the Facebook app
Proceed with the Facebook Settings menu
Hit on Refresh Interval
Tap the Never option

Deactivating the Gmail / Google services

Head to the Settings app
Press the Account options
Tap the Google button
Choose the account you want to disable
Uncheck the one you’d like to disable from the list of the Google services that shall appear

And you’re all done! Doing these steps shall disable all your Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9 Plus’ background data and services.