You have to distinguish between leaving apps open in the background (and running) and leaving apps open.
Since iOS does a excellent job of the latter, no point to manually doing it. On the former, that's up to you.
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iPad Do you "kill" apps, or leave them "running"?
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You have to distinguish between leaving apps open in the background (and running) and leaving apps open.
Since iOS does a excellent job of the latter, no point to manually doing it. On the former, that's up to you.
The only thing I close are financial apps. Everything else I just leave open.
As far as podcasts, not really a huge consumer of them.
As far as podcasts, not really a huge consumer of them.
I close apps, shut down safari tabs and reboot the iPad pretty frequently.
People claim these things are unnecessary but I "feel" a perfor,since increase whenever I do it so I'm still unsure if it's all in my head or inot. But it works for me so whatever.
People claim these things are unnecessary but I "feel" a perfor,since increase whenever I do it so I'm still unsure if it's all in my head or inot. But it works for me so whatever.
I voted for closing apps, but in reality, I only close them when I know things are acting up. When it acts up, I close all apps, and reboot. I seem to need to do this once every 2 weeks or so.
Yup. Close all apps plus hard reset. Alas, on the Air 1, that's a 2-3 times weekly occurrence.
Not understanding why rebooting is needed to that degree. Is iOS 8 and 9 that unstable?
I believe it is memory leaks that led to the need to close apps. I have in the past only forced quit apps and tried to continue, but I still noticed slow speeds.
I close them out of habit but it makes ZERO difference, when the memory limit has been reached it's already closed and when you open it up it will refresh anyway
4GB RAM you see significantly less of that
4GB RAM you see significantly less of that
I actually use a mix.
The 12.9" iPP with 4GB of RAM has changed things quite a bit. If you get one you'll immediately notice that it can keep MANY apps in memory in the background.
The thing is: while just keeping those apps in a "suspended" state in the background doesn't do anything harmful (and does allow you to resume that app very quickly) I have found that some apps are more "suspended" than others. Occasionally, if I leave a graphically intensive app (like a game) running in the background I can tell that it's draining the battery on the iPP as if I had it open. If I kill that app then it stops.
I think the reason I never noticed this before on any other i-device is because with limited RAM you're not really going to be keeping a graphically intensive game in RAM very long... it's going to get shutdown to make room for something else. But with 4GB I can sometimes come back to a game a played a few _days_ ago and it's still running!
The 12.9" iPP with 4GB of RAM has changed things quite a bit. If you get one you'll immediately notice that it can keep MANY apps in memory in the background.
The thing is: while just keeping those apps in a "suspended" state in the background doesn't do anything harmful (and does allow you to resume that app very quickly) I have found that some apps are more "suspended" than others. Occasionally, if I leave a graphically intensive app (like a game) running in the background I can tell that it's draining the battery on the iPP as if I had it open. If I kill that app then it stops.
I think the reason I never noticed this before on any other i-device is because with limited RAM you're not really going to be keeping a graphically intensive game in RAM very long... it's going to get shutdown to make room for something else. But with 4GB I can sometimes come back to a game a played a few _days_ ago and it's still running!
I kill mine often because I find less background apps makes the 3D Touch multitasking switch much more efficient.
I was one of them people that always closed apps and would forget to do it once and a while and one day I realized that when I didn't close them I couldn't tell a difference. Haven't closed one since unless it stopped responding and haven't had any issues with it.
I never do it, never felt any slowness due to apps being suspended in the background and I do realize that the apps will get auto killed if the OS thinks it necessary.
iOS does a very good job of memory management and there should be no reason of me performing a CPU's job.
iOS does a very good job of memory management and there should be no reason of me performing a CPU's job.
I agree with what your saying. There's no reason except at night, I close everything to have a"fresh start" in the morning.
Lol probably to keep her tabs open but unaware of the lack of ram in the iPad 2 will reload her tabs anyway
