post Re: Pandora App in Android

Android: Pandora runs in foreground and background

kendenny — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:09:19 GMT

For some reason Pandora is running in both the forground and the background on my Samsung Galaxy. It's not a big deal except that when I want to stop the music and close Pandora, I must pause the music first. If I close the app while the music is playing the background app takes over and the music continues to play, then I have to close the background app.

Re: Android: Pandora runs in both foreground and background

TannerPandora — Fri, 30 May 2025 14:52:50 GMT

Hi @kendenny

Happy Friday!

Pandora continuing to play even if you leave the app is actually expected behavior. Similar to other music streaming apps, Pandora is designed to continue playing music in the background, allowing you to seamlessly use your device for other tasks without interrupting your tunes. To fully stop playback, you'll need to actively pause the music or completely close the app from the recent apps menu. This prevents the background service from keeping the music running when you're done listening.

Hope this helps to explain!

Pandora App

Rachel1954 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:11:08 GMT

Does anyone else have this issue? When I shut down station, app does not close, have to go to settings and force stop app. or it continues to run and drain the battery. App even tries to open when I am not using it, says trying to open (?). This has happened on 2 different phones and is the only app I have this issue with.

Re: Pandora App

Madisonis14 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:30:44 GMT

Have you tried restarting the phone?

Re: Pandora App

Rachel1954 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 13:50:18 GMT

I have restarted many times since this began some time ago. I have taken out battery, deleted app and reinstalled and have had a couple of different phones. Nothing works, kind of stopped listening.

Re: Pandora App

Madisonis14 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:14:21 GMT

Does the rest of your apps work fine?

Re: Pandora App

Rachel1954 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:06:08 GMT

Only PANDORA as I mentioned, all other Apps behave

Re: Pandora App

Madisonis14 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:11:39 GMT

Go to search the community and type android your answers are there

Re: Pandora App

AdamPandora — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 20:16:09 GMT

@Rachel1954 I moved your post over to this existing thread: Android: Pandora runs in foreground and background

Check out @TannerPandora's message for more information around this.

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