Editing Background process (section)

==Smartphones==
Many newer versions of [[smartphone]] and PDA [[operating system]]s now include the ability to start background processes. Due to hardware limits, background processes on mobile operating systems are often restricted to certain tasks or consumption levels. On [[Android (operating system)|Android]], CPU use for background processes may be bounded at 5–10%.<ref name="phone">{{cite web|url=https://gizmodo.com/5527407/giz-explains-how-multitasking-works-on-a-phone|title=Giz Explains: How Multitasking Works on a Phone|author=Matt Buchanan|date=2010-04-29|publisher=Gizmodo|accessdate=14 November 2010|archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20101017123040/http://gizmodo.com/5527407/giz-explains-how-multitasking-works-on-a-phone|archivedate=17 October 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>  Applications on Apple's [[iOS]] are limited to a subset of functions while running in the background.<ref name="ios"/> On both iOS and Android, background processes can be killed by the system if they are using too much memory.<ref name="ios"/><ref name="phone"/>