Too aggressive Android Power Saving? Force closing apps

[Andeh1]

I have a Huawei P20 Pro Spy phone, which I do like & ensure the Chinese get the full dosage of my Pistonheads posting via... however the aggression is shows Apps is starting to grind on me a bit.

On my old S7 Edge my weather app would run quite happily in the background & live in my taskbar providing me with up to date weather updates. 'Where's My Droid' would also work in the background & prove itself useful when the phone slips down the Sofa.

Yesterday i had an oh st moment where I couldn't find my phone and the usual ''WMD Ring'' and ''Wheres my Droid Commander'' (web based app) (phone as muted...) failed to work.

This cost me an easy 20mins of searching high & low before I found it behind the drivers seat.

My old S7 Edge would have rang happily for the 5mins I needed as I wandered round.

I assume this is down to Huawei and/or Android being uber aggressive with background apps & blocking off Wheres my droid.

What I want to know, is there any way to stop this? Allow the phone/Android to white list certain apps. I ave done this in the App setts, but it made no difference.

[zedx19]

Settings -> Battery -> App Launch

Find the apps you want to allow to run, choose Manage Manually, then select, Allow to Run In Background.

This should do it?

[Dave.]

Is battery optimization set for those apps? Or is that what you meant by whitelisting?

[Andeh1]

Thank you both, that app launch seemed to be the setting I was missing!

Looks like that has resolved it - thanks again