How do you stop app refreshes or restarts when the screen goes off?

[SteveJG]

@abby_adamina

I don't want to use the solution of keeping screen on.

That leaves you with two options:

• use a Foreground extension

https://ullisroboterseite.de/android-AI2-KeepAwake-en.html

• use a Background extension to keep the app running . Perhaps

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that might work.

@abby_adamina

the app refreshes or restarts when the screen goes off and is turned back on

That might just be an issue of how you coded your app. You did not share your Blocks so one can only guess why the app 'restarts' ... what does that mean?