# Apps use less machine time and reopen on their own on mobile

> An app now stays warm while you use it and bills machine time only then, never wakes in a hidden tab, and reopens itself on the phone after a pause.

Oct 15, 2026. Topics: Apps, Mobile, Pricing. https://www.generalinput.com/changelog/2026-10-15-apps-idle-less-and-reopen-on-mobile

Every app you build runs its handlers on a machine that starts when someone uses the app and stops once it sits idle. It now stays ready while someone is using the app, so a click never waits for it to start, and stops two minutes after the last sign of use instead of five minutes after the last request. An app left open in a hidden tab or on a phone in your pocket no longer wakes its machine to refresh data nobody sees; it catches up once you look again. On the [mobile app](/mobile), an app the phone paused while you were away reopens on its own, on the page you left, instead of showing "This app didn't load".

### How it works

- **Warm while you use it.** Moving the mouse, tapping, typing, or scrolling in the app keeps its machine ready, and starts it if it had stopped.
- **One flat rate, billed to the end of the idle window.** An app's machine time costs 80 credits an hour, by the second, whichever machine runs it, and ends two minutes after the last use, never when cleanup runs.
- **Opening an app starts its machine only when it needs one.** If what you are about to see was saved on a recent visit, the app opens on it without the machine.
- **Hidden apps wait.** Another member's change, a finished agent run, or a new build is held while the app is off screen and shown once it is back in front.
- **A quiet relaunch on the phone.** When iOS or Android frees a background app's memory, or its session runs out, the app relaunches up to twice before saying it could not load, and waits for the network when the phone is offline.