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Random apps/windows/sessions open in Quick Switcher

SdoggaMan

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Hey all! Hope you're having a good day.

So this has been happening for a long time, off and on. It went away for a while and came back.

When opening the app switcher (right swipe on the G5 Plus's no-button nav, square on most Androids) to view/close open apps, random apps, sessions, and windows will be open behind my currently in-focus window. I've had Gmail emails open, chrome, games and apps, settings, those once-off sub-Chrome windows that news articles from the Google app like to open in, and so on.

I couldn't be bothered posting about it initially because the last time I had a problem with my previous G4 Plus, the Lenovo/Moto forums infuriated the hair off of me just trying to find a "post thread" button, and the super-small community of active members - of which two commented on my post, and only once each - just had your run-of-the-mill responses like "try safe mode" and "refresh the phone". They didn't have a fix, and I'm fairly certain they won't have one now. It is, after all, a volunteer forum.

I run Trend Micro Maximum Security, which should be a good countermeasure for un-safeties, but I know could also be the cause as it checks constantly for malicious bugs. It could also just be Google scanning my shiz' so it can "suggest" things to me, something I'm still not sure of my feelings on... Or, it could be a less-legitimate app like Wish or a game with a little bit of snoop code gathering it's Metadata. Hell, it could just be my phone.
I haven't imaged the phone for a while, but I believe it used to do this before I refreshed it the last time.

Any help would be most appreciated, thank you all! :)
 
I guess I am confused as to the problem... and you are confused as to what "Quick Switcher" or Overview is.

The Overview is history of applications/tasks that have been opened or auto opened (which Android does a lot of, mostly for caching) not just that have running currently. You can close all applications by scrolling to the "top" and clicking "Clear All".

And honestly, unless you are installing apps from unknown sources, meaning you actually had to go to Developer Options and enable Unknown Sources, you don't need any extra "security" apps other than what comes with Android... Get rid of Trend Micro and any other similar app, it is just tying up resources.
 
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