Anti-Theft runs as a service or not at all?

Regarding the Anti-Theft module only… I assume because this application is triggered by SMS commands, it is not actually running as a service? (and therefore not using any battery or cpu cycles?) Using the app “System”, the anti-theft app shows up in the non-active “cached” list of apps. (so not as a foreground app, nor as a service) Again, just looking for some confirmation that my assumption is correct. Thanks!

It only runs if there’s something to do.

Thanks, so in other words the ‘normal’ state of the app is not running unless/until a triggering SMS wakes it up?

That should be the case yup