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Apple Reiterates: Force Quitting iOS Apps Doesn’t Help Battery Life

Never need to quit apps for battery life reasons on iOS since the 3GS. The only reason I quit apps is because of non-responsive apps and/or buggy iOS9 that caused apps to be non-responsive.

What's the point of paying for a smartphone and smart OS and then putting one's self to do things manually? It's like hiring a professional maid but then you are doing the cleaning yourself just to make sure.
 
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Ok, this is great and all.... but do you know how hard it is to just leave those app windows open when I hate seeing 1 little red dot notification on any app?
 
mpe said:
My Facebook battery stats are:
8 minutes on screen, 3 hours in the background.

Federighi is wrong. Killing apps that would otherwise run in the background absolutely helps with battery life.
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As such I have uninstalled Facebook. Apple should mark the Facebook app as malware at this point since it is behaving like one, and Facebook's refusal to actually do anything about it.
 
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mpe said:
My Facebook battery stats are:
8 minutes on screen, 3 hours in the background.

Federighi is wrong. Killing apps that would otherwise run in the background absolutely helps with battery life.
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A simple check of Facebook’s “background” activity time still proves the app is doing all sorts of crap behind the scenes. My Facebook background activity is generally 40-50% of the total time reported in the battery section of Settings. For instance, under the “last 7 days” tab of the battery section in settings, Facebook reported 3.5 hours on screen and 2.9 hours background. I agree with Craig’s assessment in theory, but there are obviously some apps that are abusing the background app framework.
 
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I used to close my apps, when the background apps thing worked different. When it was just a row of apps on the bottom of the screen. You could tap the X in the same spot and quickly close all the apps. I accepted that it didn't help battery or improve performance. It was just an OCD thing.

When they changed the background app page and you had to swipe up to close an app, I quit closing apps. Swiping up was more effort than I cared to perform compared to just tapping the X. :)

Recently, my 8 year old niece noticed how many apps I had on the background page of my phone. She told me I needed to close them to save battery. I just smiled. She is a little no it all. It wasn't something I felt like arguing with an 8 year old.
 
Great! Now, how do I get the Podcast app NOT to quit even though it's in the foreground and in use?!?
 
Go to Settings > Battery > and scroll down to Battery Usage
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This ain't available in ios7. My Ipad with ios8 doesn't need to worry about battery for the time being, but I'm curious to know if it has this now, and will have to check later in the day.
 
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So if you had apps that didn't require any kind of data traffic, leaving the apps open wouldn't make a difference to the iPhone....Unless I'm over looking something here (I most likely am), doesn't that seem a bit of a pointless feature to have?

Surely multi tasking between 30 apps is a pain the arse, rather then having 2-3 and swapping between them.
 
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I agree when all software is behaving correctly. This maybe shocking to some, not always does IOS and or Apps behave correctly. If you suspect an App or IOS then a force quit maybe a good troubleshooting option. I would not use it like taking a multivitamin each day to boost ones performance.
 
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Its rare for me to force close apps just don't see the need, that said I do close out apps that I only use once and a while.
 
GQB said:
"or the sneakiest of them all: checking for incoming VOIP calls , like Skype. All of these exceptions, besides the latter, will put an icon next to your battery icon "

Why the exception for Skype?
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This icon next to the battery thing is not quite correct:
  • When you record audio (this includes making a standard telephone or VoIP call) or getting directions, the whole menubar will change colour
  • When there is an app using location services, you get the 'location' arrow next to the battery
  • When an app is playing audio, you are supposed to hear that (except when apps use the silent audio to cheat)
There is no icon for 'active' VoIP services, presumably because its stress on the battery is quite low (and it is a rather limited case, ie, there won't be many VoIP services running on your phone).

The location arrow however is not a great indicator as to how much battery is being consumed by location services as different apps poll the location at widely varying intervals (and accuracies). The best way to keep things in check is to go the Settings > Privacy > Location services and look for the purple icons (this indicates the apps that have very recently used location services). You then need to get some experience how hard a given app stresses your battery when using location services, usually apps that constantly track your location on a map use GPS which eats battery. Other apps that just determine your general location can get by with WiFi location or a much less frequent polling of GPS.
 
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According to my experience, that is something that still count for me, force closing apps doesn't help battery life but help speeding up apps, especially with 1 Gb devices.
It's true: iOS is doing the same for me, but I'm more efficient than it in doing so ;)
 
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