MyRideTrac is designed to always be running in the background.  Here's why It tracks your mileage using the GPS in the phone.  To track your mileage, it has to be running.  It runs in the background, because you are using your rideshare app in the foreground. MyRideTrac backs itself up to your iCloud or Google Drive automatically.  It does this several times per day.  It has to be running in the background to do the backup.  If you kill the app, it WILL NOT backup your data!!!   It backs up your data at approximately noon, midnight and every 3,000 GPS pings. The widget can be used on top of your rideshare app.  It talks to MyRideTrac in the background to change your status... go ahead and see.  Change your…