Keep the app running

The badge reel talks to the Kwema app. If you swipe the app away, or the phone is off, a button press cannot raise an alert.

Leave the app in the background. Background refresh lets it keep its connection while you are in other apps. Closing the app, or turning the phone off, stops that.

The app is not a large drain on the battery while it sits in the background.

iOS

iOS Background App Refresh lets the app update and keep its server connection when it is not on screen.

1. Open the Kwema app once after you unlock the phone.
2. Leave it in the app switcher. Do not swipe it away.
3. In iOS Settings, leave Background App Refresh on for Kwema.

Android

1. Open the Kwema app once.
2. Leave it in recent apps. Do not force-stop it.
3. Allow background data for Kwema. The steps are on Android permissions.