Re: How to stop EA Desktop background service from running most of the time.

Most of the time these settings don't work that's why I came up with a workaround better than what ea can offer.

@SinfulFish 

There 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

Solution from @EA_Kent works for me too.

OP was not rude or insulting in any manner. The passive aggressiveness in your post is quite literally undeserved. The question is why are YOU being rude

Mine runs in the background without updating anything. I have to wait for everything to update upon opening EA. Changing settings does not help.

This does not stop the process from running when it should not even be active. It behaves too much like spyware for a normal person to believe this is safe.

11-2024 they still havent stoped this stupid thing. even tho i set it to manual start in system, it always starts with windows and in 90% of times it prevent ea app for opening, so in 9/10 times i have to go to joblist find eabackground services and close it down, then i can open ea app.. was the sime problem on my other 2 computers. 

I'm not surprised that it still hasn't been fixed even was around during the EA app beta back in 2019. I've given up on using EA tbh with all the issues, like the RCE exploits in Titanfall, Titanfall and apex legends over the span on 10 + years has not been fixed, Spyware, the EA kernel anti-cheat which has even bricked people's computers making the have to buy a new computer and the support where once I had a problem where one of the game's I owned disappeared and it took them 1-2 months of back and forth with their outsourced support who barely understand English until I think a manager guy came along and fixed it after I threatened to do a chargeback with the card which paid for it. I'm disgusted and sick of EA screwing me over.

This does not work, ea is forcing their background service to run constantly, I keep closing it and setting updates and everything to OFF in the settings, when I open the ea crapp it is turned back on, meaning the toggle is useless as ea keeps turning it back on when I close the crapp

This did not work for me.

I have it disabled but it keeps turning itself back on and draining my battery while im doing other things!!! what the hell? I even force quit it with battery services but it pops back up. It is toggled off. It is draining my battery. This is not okay.