How to kill Whatsapp process without it resurrecting after a time?

Asked Apr 30 '21 at 11:45

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On my Xiaomi Mi A1 if I go to Apps & notifications > WhatsApp and tap "force stop", the app seems to stop. But hours later, WhatsApp is strangely on again and I start receiving messages.

If there is a way to safely kill the process associated with WhatsApp so the app does not start again, what is it?

asked Apr 30 '21 at 11:45

drake035

Some phones have the possibility to limit certain apps from running in background. If your phone has such a feature you can prevent WhatsApp from running. Otherwise you could only uninstall or disable the while app (while keeping the user data). – Robert Apr 30 '21 at 12:21
Run adb shell appops set com.whatsapp RUN_IN_BACKGROUND ignore. Or if you prefer GUI over CLI you may use my open source app PMX. – Irfan Latif Apr 30 '21 at 12:39
Also see How do certain apps show new notifications when internet access is restricted to them? – Irfan Latif Apr 30 '21 at 12:50
@IrfanLatif wow that's pretty specific thanks :) How can I run this command though, I mean where should I type that? – drake035 Apr 30 '21 at 15:23
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/adb – Irfan Latif Apr 30 '21 at 19:56
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=how+ro+run+adb+shell+commands – Irfan Latif Apr 30 '21 at 19:56
Thank you very much :) – drake035 May 01 '21 at 08:42

How to kill Whatsapp process without it resurrecting after a time?

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