"Close All Apps"

[jabingla2810]

I close the ones I use rarely, the more commonly used ones I leave.

You are making the iPhone so much more complicated than it actually is. You don't need to manage or think about which apps are in the recently used apps list.

Honestly, try leaving it alone and just using your phone. I guarantee you that the impact on battery and performance will be positive.

 

[Qbnkelt]

I used to be OBSESSIVE about turning off apps. But after seeing how well iOS manages memory and battery I just leave the OS to manage things.

 

[Newtons Apple]

I do not close them all the time but maybe once or twice a day I will close them all down out of habit. I do not think it makes a huge difference either way so do as you wish and enjoy!

 

[scaramoosh]

I close them because otherwise the phone slows down noticeably. My G/F leaves hers all open, she has about 500 things and her phone struggles, I dunno how people live like that and tbh it makes me hate her.

 

[McGiord]

almost all apps are continually sending data in the background, and with spotty internet connection they can slow down the whole iPhone experience. Just be careful to toggle the right apps you indeed want to have background refresh as well as to send data and location.

With the low power mode the battery last a few extra minutes that is a very nice feature, hopefully it can be activated abytime we want in a future iOS release.

Despite all the claims of how good iOS is supposed to be it still lacks a quick kill all app button in the interface.

 

[C DM]

almost all apps are continually sending data in the background, and with spotty internet connection they can slow down the whole iPhone experience. Just be careful to toggle the right apps you indeed want to have background refresh as well as to send data and location.

With the low power mode the battery last a few extra minutes that is a very nice feature, hopefully it can be activated abytime we want in a future iOS release.

Despite all the claims of how good iOS is supposed to be it still lacks a quick kill all app button in the interface.

It doesn't seem that most are doing much in the background. Some will finish up some tasks for a minute or two after use but most don't even have background usage.

 

[C DM]

I close them because otherwise the phone slows down noticeably. My G/F leaves hers all open, she has about 500 things and her phone struggles, I dunno how people live like that and tbh it makes me hate her.

The phone only has whatever would be in memory so nothing even remotely close to 500 things would be in memory, let alone running. Things shouldn't be slowing down from not closing apps on purpose, most of which aren't even running or doing anything once you aren't using them, unless perhaps we are taking about mainly using some very resource intensive apps like some big games or something like that.

 

[Tom G.]

I generally just close them all when I take the phone off its charger in the morning. On my iPad I'm not as conscientious about it, and I sometimes find apps open that I have not used in weeks. I don't know if it speeds things up or not, but it certainly can't hurt.

 

[brentsg]

I never do this. It's a bad habit and I laugh at family members that still swear this is necessary.

 

[JohnApples]

I used to close apps religiously when I first got my iPhone. It didn't take me long though to realize that I wasn't seeing any positive effects, but actually some negative ones. Apps would take longer to load up every time I needed to open them, instead of the phone just retrieving them from the "suspended" state.

The ONLY thing I think killing apps should be used for, is when it's acting up or not responding. That is all I use it for.

 

[Bbqthis]

I never do this. It's a bad habit and I laugh at family members that still swear this is necessary.

Yup. I laugh at people on this forum that still do it to.

 

[arliu]

wow I always thought we should close everything....I guess i'll just try leaving everything open

 

[ardchoille50]

I stopped manually closing apps a couple years ago, when I realized it wasn't actually helping anything. I typically have ~30 apps in the multitask screen at any given time and still only need to recharge at night.

I found a nice article about this:
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/1...apps-to-save-battery-life-is-a-terrible-idea/

 

[Dented]

Nope, I've had iPhones for seven years now and have never done this. It's exactly what many describe it as, a bad habit, born of fear and misunderstanding, and it does absolutely nothing for your phone except make it work harder to reopen the apps you've pointlessly closed.

The ability to manually close apps is only there for exceptional circumstances where there might be some benefit in force-closing a problem app; the reason there has never been, or will ever be a "close all" button is that it's just about the most unhelpful thing you can do for your phone and a complete waste of time.

But hey. In another seven years I still won't be closing apps and a bunch of other people will still be insisting that it's essential..

 

[bushido]

i close all my social media apps cuz i dont trust them even if i open them again a minute later. i dont trust fb, snapchat, instagram & telegram. they all seem like battery hogs and the rest when i know i wont be using the phone for a few hours / before bed. oh and location hungry apps like maps i close all of them too.

id probably do it less if there was an indicator showing what keeps running

its really crazy, most people close everything as soon as they go back to the speingboard. its already become a habit that happens without thinking about it. fun part is when an Apple Genius tells ur sister to do it after ur trying to convince urself to stop doing it

 

[TeeRav19]

I guess the verdict is to let your iPhone do its memory management job and not close all of your apps. Thanks for the replies!

 

[Black Magic]

I close them because otherwise the phone slows down noticeably. My G/F leaves hers all open, she has about 500 things and her phone struggles, I dunno how people live like that and tbh it makes me hate her.

LMAO! Makes you hate her? Please elaborate on this. Definitely one the funniest comments I read in a while!

 

[Eau Rouge]

You are making the iPhone so much more complicated than it actually is. You don't need to manage or think about which apps are in the recently used apps list.

Honestly, try leaving it alone and just using your phone. I guarantee you that the impact on battery and performance will be positive.

If it's an app that's used so infrequently, it'll have to reload everything into RAM anyway, what's the harm? What if a user wants to reduce clutter in the app switch view?

 

[Eileen89]

I rarely if ever close out my Apps. I guess I just don't feel the need, and I'm too lazy as well, lol.

 

[scaramoosh]

LMAO! Makes you hate her? Please elaborate on this. Definitely one the funniest comments I read in a while!

Because I hate how people can live like that, she is also messy and does things like puts bread back in the bag so it makes the lot mouldy :\ You don't know all this stuff before you live with them, she also doesn't load the Dish washer properly.

In fact if I could afford to live on my own, I'd leave her lol.

 

[Black Magic]

Because I hate how people can live like that, she is also messy and does things like puts bread back in the bag so it makes the lot mouldy :\ You don't know all this stuff before you live with them, she also doesn't load the Dish washer properly.

In fact if I could afford to live on my own, I'd leave her lol.

Next time, upgrade your girlfriend before upgrading your phone.

 

[clairmyk]

I always close my apps... Yikes, seems like I'm gonna have to change this terrrible habit

 

[XTheLancerX]

I always close all mine even though I know it does nothing. It's just a habit. I always tell people to not close them because it's pointless, just causes the phone to do more work.

I like to have it cleared out though because when I switch between apps it is less distracting when there is only one other app to switch to rather than a couple other unrelated ones in the distance. Plus my iPad mini 2 lags so hard in the app switcher when there are a lot of apps in there, the blurring effects are just too taxing and poorly done.

Still think I need to start making myself stop closing them, as I always tell others to do lol.

 

[sunking101]

I keep one or two open that I use all day, but otherwise I close them down once I'm finished.

 

[Mercenary]

Closing apps has ZERO impact on performance.

The problem is people are thinking it's like the old days where computers had a few mb of ram and used page files a lot. In those days it would load apps into virtual memory but with iOS if it runs out of memory it closes apps for you.

Leave apps alone people. Use your phone.