If you were to check your multitasking bar, how many apps are in there "running"?
How often do you close and which apps do you close?
How often do you close and which apps do you close?
not all of those apps are "open", most are just recent apps
not all of those apps are "open", most are just recent apps
most likely the few ones in front?
Is there anyway to close open apps, such as Maps that are RAM hogs?
If the apps are frozen, do they consume much RAM? I'm slightly worried about this multitasking feature, as when I bought my iPhone the Apple Store employee had told me to be wary as it drains battery fast... so I've been closing almost all of my apps obsessively, however now I've got 12 in the background since I decided I was being a little too crazy before. 2 games, facebook, and 9 of the stock apple apps (messaging, phone, mail, safari, camera, photos, settings, iPod, maps). And I've been keeping these open down there as they are used most... should I close some?
Having apps in the fast task switcher does not drain your battery. They are not using up resources.
The only thing to be weary of are apps using background APIs like using music, navigation etc etc that can be running while you are using a different app.
Having apps in the fast task switcher does not drain your battery. They are not using up resources.
The only thing to be weary of are apps using background APIs like using music, navigation etc etc that can be running while you are using a different app.
So then are these what the Apple employee was warning me about? Idk, I'd like to not assume he was telling me to worry for no reason... even though many people are not closing apps it seems.
So then which do I need to worry about? Turn by turn direction apps and Pandora?
If you see Pandora or a turn by turn application in the fast application switching tray there's no need to worry about battery life unless Pandora is currently playing music or your turn by turn application is giving directions, and so in that case obviously they would be using resources. In my opinion Apple didn't need to include a way to kill applications from the task bar, it's just a way to completely clear an application as it will have to relaunch the next time you start it instead of immediately being where it was when you left it.So then are these what the Apple employee was warning me about? Idk, I'd like to not assume he was telling me to worry for no reason... even though many people are not closing apps it seems.
So then which do I need to worry about? Turn by turn direction apps and Pandora?
... and as there are only (three?) APIs that can be used in that way (background music, VOIP and GPS - with the former two not being able to run at the same time for obvious reasons) the number of Apps that can actually PROPERLY run in the background at any one time is very limited.
Seven. There are seven background APIs
http://snowball4u.wordpress.com/2010/06/20/ios4-multitasking/
57. I didn't even know I had that many apps
ya this multitasking is not very good