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My understanding is that this Samsung device feature operates outside of Android's normal background execution limits.

Samsung's documentation on the feature is here: https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00088422/. Notably, the documentation fails to mention that this breaks notifications and timers (like Alarm Clock apps).

This is compounded with bugs on Samsung devices that prevent reliably notification delivery. Here's a thread on the Samsung forum about one of these bugs with 346 (!!) replies: https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/galaxy-s9-series/delayed...

It seems hard to believe that Google and Samsung would allow such popular devices with these behaviors to be sold, but here we are.




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