Does Roku keep apps running in background?
I used to use a really awful old fire stick, it was supremely laggy. Every now and then I had to go through and manually force stop the applications I wasn’t using, this would always drastically imp...
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I think yes it does on some apps. I have Spectrum streaming and sometimes when I click on the app the next day and it opens up to the home screen it's showing shows and times from the day before. It never updates to the current day and time. It also takes forever to change channels and such. I have to go into my Roku TV and do a system restart or "restart app" in order to get it to reset to current day and time. The system restart is the only way to get it to go back to not taking forever to change channels. It totally acts like it has been running in the background the whole time the TV was off cause I've got the habit of just turning the TV off and not exiting to the home screen first before turning the TV off. It's also not the only app I've seen show signs of supposedly running in the background.
There's an Instant Resume feature that apps can take advantage of, but the app is suspended and isn't running in the background. That may be what's happening.
