What does don’t keep activities mean?

Basically in layman’s terms Don’t keep activities is a function whose job is to kill every app as soon as the user comes out of it . This means that the Android has to load the app’s resources every time the user opens as it does not have the cached data or memory of that specific app to perform that task.

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What is standby mode on Android?

App Standby puts apps into “standby” mode when you aren’t actively using them. In general, if you never launch an app, Android will put it into standby mode. However, apps that display notifications on the notification tray or on the lock screen won’t go into standby mode.

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What are inactive apps in developer options?

App Standby is way at the bottom of this menu—it’s called Inactive Apps. All your installed apps are listed with either active or inactive status . Tapping toggles between the modes. So, if an app is misbehaving by pushing too many notifications or using a lot of data, just tap to hibernate it until you need it again.

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