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iPhone 3.0, how to kill app?

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Polymira

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So, with all previous iPhone versions you could just hold the home button for 5-8 seconds and it would kill the current app.

With 3.0, this no longer works (likely because the 3GS does voice control here)... is there a new button combo of sorts that anyone knows of? Or if an app hangs, do you just have to reboot phone? ughh...
 
Polymira said:
So, with all previous iPhone versions you could just hold the home button for 5-8 seconds and it would kill the current app.

With 3.0, this no longer works (likely because the 3GS does voice control here)... is there a new button combo of sorts that anyone knows of? Or if an app hangs, do you just have to reboot phone? ughh...
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Hold the power button until you get "slide to power off" and then hit the home button until it kills the app.
 
ChrisWilder07 said:
Yes, Apple said it in the keynote:

Holding the home button brings up Voice Command
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Oops. I missed that. Heh. I haven't watched the keynote yet because I'm still waiting for the net to be installed in my new apartment.
 
TheSpaz said:
Wow! That's neat! Maybe Apple is planning on using a "hold home" gesture in the future!
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voice command is only for the 3G S
so either theyre planning on using it for something else on the 3G, bringing voice command to the 3G, or just being stupid and taking away functionality from all devices to enable a feature on only one device
 
dccorona said:
voice command is only for the 3G S
so either theyre planning on using it for something else on the 3G, bringing voice command to the 3G, or just being stupid and taking away functionality from all devices to enable a feature on only one device
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Even if the first two iPhone models never get voice command, at least the procedure to kill an app will be consistent across all models of phones.

Diode said:
Hold the power button until you get "slide to power off" and then hit the home button until it kills the app.
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Double click the home button, running apps show in bottom slider

You can quickly click the home button twice, which shows you up to four apps at a time in a slider, so you can finger slide through all the list of running apps in the bottom area.

Just like when you hold and press on the on screen icons during normal use to delete or remove them, you can do that on the list of running apps and they show up with little "-" in the upper left of each icon and you can click on that to kill the app.

After you are done, press the home button again (just like when one is removing apps from the home screen to get out of delete/move mode) and you are done! :)

I was surprised to see how many things I left running in the background that I thought were closed!
 
normanbrobinson said:
You can quickly click the home button twice, which shows you up to four apps at a time in a slider, so you can finger slide through all the list of running apps in the bottom area.

Just like when you hold and press on the on screen icons during normal use to delete or remove them, you can do that on the list of running apps and they show up with little "-" in the upper left of each icon and you can click on that to kill the app.

After you are done, press the home button again (just like when one is removing apps from the home screen to get out of delete/move mode) and you are done! :)

I was surprised to see how many things I left running in the background that I thought were closed!
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what an irrelevant and random post! the thread is a year and 3 months old, prior to multitasking, so what you posted is irrelevant...
 
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