Community ManagerHi @SinfulFish,
The EABackgroundService runs in the background so the EA app can run automatic app updates and download game updates in the background.
If you'd rather not having it running, you can disable automatic app updates and background game updates in the EA app settings.
To disable automatic Application updates:
To disable background game updates:
Once these settings are disabled, the EABackgroundService will automatically end after you've shut down the app. Please note: there will be a minute or two delay before the process ends once you've closed the app.
Most of the time these settings don't work that's why I came up with a workaround better than what ea can offer.
Community ManagerThere are some other situations that might be keeping it running. For instance, if you're using the Xbox app on your PC it will run the EABackgroundService. Likewise if you run an EA game through Steam or Epic, it will also run in the background. It should stop the background service when these clients are closed, though. Again, there may be a delay of a couple minutes after exiting the client or game before the background service stops.
I agree that EA should fix this but for me it does close after a minute or two but I use the solution I came up with because I still don't trust EA because all they care about is money not customers.
I haven't launched the app from steam or xbox or epic, I reloaded my computer not long ago and before it never closed but I also tested it on a virtual machine and it worked while running TCP view from here TCPView for Windows - Sysinternals | Microsoft Learn
