I updated my device to Lineahe OS based on Android 15 after I have been using Lineage OS based on Android 14 for a while. I don’t know if this is a common issue with Android 15 or it’s only with Lineage OS or my installation is sonewhat crippled (I did clean flash and I already reinstalled once), but the OS is very aggressively killing apps compared to Android 14 to the point it is annoying.
Example
In Android 14 if I started a download in the browser, the browser would display a permanent notification that it’s downloading and if I swiped away the browser from recents the download would continue. In Android 15 the downloading stops immidiately after I swipe the browser from recents.
And that’s not the only problem. Background services like my companion watch app don’t work properly because it seems they get killed in the background and messaging or e-mail apps sometimes seem to have the same problem. I tried disabling battery optimizations for these apps, but it doesn’t seem to help at all.
Does anyone else experience similar issues with Android 15?
Do you remember notifications that couldn’t be swiped away in older Android versions? Their point was to keep their app alive. They still exist and still work the same way, keeping their app alive until it cancels the notification, except they can now be dismissed like any other notification (which doesn’t really have any effect other than hiding it from you - it will still keep the app alive even when hidden).
It’s possible that it’s broken in AOSP for some reason, but developer documentation says it should work like this and it does indeed work like this on stock Google ROMs on Pixels.