How to stop background apps on Pixel smartphones
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While in many ways a smartphone like the Pixel 8a is just as capable as your laptop, smartphones do radically simplify things in an effort to make something that’s easy to use quickly and with one hand. For example, unless you’re using a foldable, most smartphones can only display one or two apps at the same time.