Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

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Google may split the Internet tile back into separate Wi-Fi and mobile data toggles in a future Android release. Here’s how we know.