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Other Guy says not to do this
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Yep, and I used to be the guy that tried explaining this to folks when I saw them swiping everything away but it's just awful how hard-headed people are even when you're willing to provide sources.
If you never force quit apps ever - every app on the phone eventually will clog up the app switcher to the point where it’s worthless.
While iOS doesn’t require apps to be force quit - things work more smoothly if it’s done occasionally- like end of day before shutdown
While iOS doesn’t require apps to be force quit - things work more smoothly if it’s done occasionally- like end of day before shutdown
Seems like a settable limit on how many apps stay in the switcher would be a good feature. Like "Recent Items" in the macOS apple menu.
2000+ comments on YT weren’t enough I guess.
I also bet that most people don’t use the app switcher or force quit anything, excluding opinionated members of enthusiast forums.
It really doesn't matter either way. Much ado about nothing.
I’m somewhere in between in terms of how I use my phone. Every once in a while I’ll close everything due to the app switcher being cluttered, more OCD than worrying about apps being open lol.
iOS has proven to me that it’s more than capable of taking of business for the most part though you do get the odd rogue app now and again, but I am not concerned about apps staying the background or not, I just prefer a cleaned up app switcher sometimes, same with my Safari tabs, once they start hitting a few hundred I then close all tabs because it feels a little “out of control” and cluttered.
iOS has proven to me that it’s more than capable of taking of business for the most part though you do get the odd rogue app now and again, but I am not concerned about apps staying the background or not, I just prefer a cleaned up app switcher sometimes, same with my Safari tabs, once they start hitting a few hundred I then close all tabs because it feels a little “out of control” and cluttered.
I can assure you that most people do not do this.
I just called every iPhone user and most do
I only do it if I feel that the device gets sluggish or if an app crashes for some reason.
It was nice talking to you-- glad the family is doing well.I just called every iPhone user and most do
I keep only those apps that I use frequently. So, there are apps such as banking apps that I will use and force-close. Why? I don’t want to clutter the app switcher because I use it to switch between apps used through the day, and don’t want apps that won’t be used anymore cluttering it up.
On the other hand, apps like Notes, Safari, Calculator, Music, Mail are almost always in the app switcher.
I often close Safari if it’s holding 10-12 or more tabs open for my later reading. If I have around 5-7, I don’t bother with closing it.
In short, I close apps that:
- may use memory in background unnecessarily, and/ or
- clutter app switcher since they are used infrequently (such as banking apps, Amazon, Prime Video, etc).
If I weren’t in the habit of switching apps while being in an app, therefore, opening every app only from Home Screen, I wouldn’t bother with closing anything. If I use app switcher, I want it to stay relevant since that’s what’s going to keep my workflow speedy.
On the other hand, apps like Notes, Safari, Calculator, Music, Mail are almost always in the app switcher.
I often close Safari if it’s holding 10-12 or more tabs open for my later reading. If I have around 5-7, I don’t bother with closing it.
In short, I close apps that:
- may use memory in background unnecessarily, and/ or
- clutter app switcher since they are used infrequently (such as banking apps, Amazon, Prime Video, etc).
If I weren’t in the habit of switching apps while being in an app, therefore, opening every app only from Home Screen, I wouldn’t bother with closing anything. If I use app switcher, I want it to stay relevant since that’s what’s going to keep my workflow speedy.
He’s not wrong in this particular instance, but my gosh, he’s a huge apple shill. He makes a video defending every controversial design choice apple makes. ?
And yet, if I keep Find My launched at all times, even when Location Services is on only "While Using the App" it drains my battery. I completely quit out of it each time and the problem is fixed.
I’ve just gone back with the app switcher to stuff that I hadn’t opened for one or two weeks and it was there pretty much instantly. There’s no use to force quit anything on this device and the battery life is pretty awesome for me too (12PM).
Maybe it just placebo but I definitely feel like closing Google Maps and some camera-related apps drains my battery way less.
Also, oddly enough, using MacRumors in Safari lately has been brutal. This morning I watched my battery drop 5% before my eyes while scrolling a thread. I swear this site hits resources harder than any others I visit.
Also, oddly enough, using MacRumors in Safari lately has been brutal. This morning I watched my battery drop 5% before my eyes while scrolling a thread. I swear this site hits resources harder than any others I visit.
This site sometimes makes my keyboard respond very slowly. It can take 30 second to type 5 words. Anyone know why?
I’ve read from others here how bad their device battery was affected in the past especially without ad blocker. One more reason to use Tapatalk for me besides the content just looks so much nicer.
This is a joke, right? It’s factually incorrect.
Bouncing this around in my head there has to be some sort of heuristics code that manages when to close things and does optimization of app state. That takes processing power. With that in mind there is a point where it would be good to close apps so that the system doesn’t waste time optimizing them. I can only assume apple tombstones them first but I wonder now…
No it’s not.
Every app you launch stays forever stacked in the app switcher —- FOREVER. Years can pass and every app you’ve ever launched that’s still installed will clutter the app switcher no matter how many times the phone is rebooted.
Eventually- you’ll launch every app you’ve got some time or another, maybe months apart - and they’ll all clutter up the app switcher FOREVER unless you clear them out.
So — eventually — if you let iOS do its thing on its own, the app switcher will inevitably stack every app installed in its house of cards, making it almost worthless to use as an app switcher.
The primary reason the powers that be recommend not force quitting apps is to save battery life since they’ll launch from cache, not off the SSD, but if the phone is plugged in, who cares?
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Why would the app switcher be “clogged”? Most people invoked the app switcher to go to the last one or two apps that they used, not scrolling to the 10th app they last used. Nobody even remembered that, they would just open the app normally from the Home Screen.
And no, the point was this has nothing to do with iOS working more “smoothly.” And no, the concept of “shutting down” is outdated.
Wait, you’re using your phone plugged in all the time?