Waze background process

[fletchem]

Waze is a great app, but even when closed down and I turn the phone off/on I seem to have a permanent background process running. Does anyone know why and what it is doing?

 

[brinky]

Are you exiting Waze from the waze app? I use it and once I close it, it is closed with nothing running in the background.

 

[fletchem]

I have not used it in a few weeks and the phone has been on/off a few times and it is still there.

It is using 6.2Mb of RAM, which isn't exactly crippling the phone... I am just curious as to what it is doing there.

I got a PM to tell me that it is merely storing its last known status so it can boot up faster next time... but it does seem strange that you don't get any background processes. Are you logged in to Waze when you close it?

EDIT: I have just run Waze and switched it off in the settings and the background process is still there.

 

[brinky]

I have not used it in a few weeks and the phone has been on/off a few times and it is still there.

It is using 6.2Mb of RAM, which isn't exactly crippling the phone... I am just curious as to what it is doing there.

I got a PM to tell me that it is merely storing its last known status so it can boot up faster next time... but it does seem strange that you don't get any background processes. Are you logged in to Waze when you close it?

EDIT: I have just run Waze and switched it off in the settings and the background process is still there.

I just ran it and switched it off and checked the Running apps and in the Task Manager and I see no sign of WAZE running. Not sure what to tell you now.