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iPhone 8/Plus Closing iPhone Apps Drain your battery?
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Apple_Robert
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It might be time to sell your smart phone and get a flip phone.
Leave the apps you're going to use that day active and open in the background. Don't force quit them. Force quit an app you don't plan on using the rest of the day. Personally I prefer to force quit ALL my apps before I shut it down each day. The app switcher gets too cluttered if you don't.
This is actually something that's kinda bugged me for a while now. There's no question that it uses more battery. Being a technical person, I even totally understand the "why". To me the real question is, how much battery loss are we talking about? If I'm losing 1% during my day from this habit, I'm fine with that. If I'm losing 50% of my battery per day, that's a big deal. So while I have absolutely no doubt that I'm losing battery from closing things I shouldn't be closing, I'm just not convinced that it's enough to be concerned about. I know I've never noticed a measurable difference and I've been closing things since we could close things (and have tested NOT closing things as well).
Just because it's a true fact doesn't means that it's worth worrying about. But I'm ready to be convinced otherwise.
Just because it's a true fact doesn't means that it's worth worrying about. But I'm ready to be convinced otherwise.
This.
Now, if one gets habitual re: open then close their apps, over and over and over during the day, yeah, wasting lots of processor cycles doing the same steps over and over and over.
Some people have seen odd background and or battery stats with some apps (see: threads complaining about Facebook, Whatapp, Reddit apps seemingly always on), and can see wanting to kill those when not in use. But again, these are specific scenarios. In my case, I stop my workout tracking apps when done, as they work in background and ping GPS satellites: shut off GPS and stop the apps. Anything else, leave be as probably will be going to it later in the day.
bodonnell202
macrumors 68030
Yes, my battery life actually improved noticeably once I stopped force quitting apps right after I'm done with them. I now only force quit apps that are misbehaving, or apps that I only use on occasion. Keeping apps that are frequently used ready to go in memory will save power versus the additional power needed to load them from storage.
anitak1982
macrumors 6502a
I just now force quit mine and I had apps open from about a month back. I don't need all those open for goodness sake
akash.nu
macrumors G4
The apps from a month ago weren’t “open”. They were just shown in the task switches as previously used apps.
anitak1982
macrumors 6502a
akash.nu
macrumors G4
The closing event doesn’t matter but if you constantly close and relaunch apps obsessively, that does.
Even Craig Federighi mentioned that you don’t need to close apps. In fact all modern OS are way better in memory management than us. They’re developed with the specific requirements in mind.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/12/4/16725812/force-close-apps-good-or-bad
It’s the same issue with manual vs automatic gear shifting in the auto industry. Automatic is way better in terms of fuel optimisation and performance but some people think they can make a better decision when to shift gears than a computer specially designed to do just that. Go figure. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Newtons Apple
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I almost always close my apps when I am done with them. The amount of power taken to re-start the app is so small it make little to no difference.
Raist3001
macrumors 65816
How about when I have an app in the background and I bring it up to the forefront and it acts as though it was closed and re-opened? Many apps do this. For example, if I am playing Mario Run, and pause in the background, when I return to my game, the app restarts as though I am launching it for the first time.
I've tried both approaches, closing apps and not closing them, and I've noticed no difference in battery life.
Now, for the most part I leave apps that I know I will revisit during the day open but I close apps that are likely to be a one-time use when I'm finished with them. I usually close everything at night before I go to sleep, to ensure that nothing is running unnecessarily through the night.
Now, for the most part I leave apps that I know I will revisit during the day open but I close apps that are likely to be a one-time use when I'm finished with them. I usually close everything at night before I go to sleep, to ensure that nothing is running unnecessarily through the night.