Apples tech note on the subject even says you shouldn't worry about closing apps.
Only case I do it is when I have some strange application behaviour and a forced close and relaunch usually fixes it.
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Apples tech note on the subject even says you shouldn't worry about closing apps.
Only case I do it is when I have some strange application behaviour and a forced close and relaunch usually fixes it.
Your behavior is irrational. The multitasking tray is not a list of RUNNING apps... it's a list of apps that you recently opened. Those apps are in a FROZEN state and are only resumed when you launch the app again by either switching to it from the multitasking tray or tapping the icon from the home screen.
The only thing you're doing by closing the apps manually is waiting longer for the app to open because you load it into the RAM manually every time rather than just un-freezing the app that's already in the RAM.
You just contradicted yourself.
If the apps are frozen (and that's not entirely true) in the ram, they have resources allocated. That's exactly the reason of my behavior.
Try a little test: watch for free ram (There are many tools) with 10 apps on the multitasking tray and with zero apps. See the difference.
It should be completely automated but it's not, and especially if you are going to use Safari, a real memory hog, that's make the difference, because a lot of resources are allocated for unused apps and tabs reloads.
iOS memory management doesn't work like this. Example:
You have your 10 apps running and have 20MB RAM free. Now you open a game that needs 300MB RAM. iOS games control and gives this app 300MB by freezing other apps.
So by clearing your recently used apps, you just get the thing that when you open an app after clearing you apps from the multitasking switch, that these apps take longer to open (because they have to load everything into the RAM again) and that needs more battery if you do this all the time.
If you open a game that requires 300 Mb, yes, it works that way and it flush all the RAM.
If you open Safari that requires 10 Mb, it doesn't flush the RAM, and when you open a second tab .... bang, reload of the first tab while it's releasing resources.
If you closed unused apps BEFORE open Safari, instead of 20 Mb you'll have 300 Mb of free RAM and you can enjoy multiple tabs without reloads.
I don't seem to have that issue and I never EVER close apps manually.
Yes, when you have apps in your RAM, they're taking up RAM obviously, but the OS will give priority to the newest stuff and it will clear the oldest stuff from the ram to make room.
I guess you know more than Apple.
Edit: I just opened 4 tabs in Safari without closing any apps manually and none of them reloaded. I switched between all of them (plus I'm streaming music in the background).
Well, leaving Facebook in the background leads to a huge battery drain. So I would say that certain apps have to be completely closed.
That could be your location settings for Facebook.
Look in Settings>Privacy>Location Services>Facebook. Set this to only use while it's using the app and it should fix that problem.
Also take a look under Settings>General>Background App Refresh. If Facebook has this turned on it could be using resources even if you aren't using it.
If you continue to see Facebook as a high percentage and you're not continually using it then I would suggest turning both of those features off.
Once you start using your phone for other things like Mail, Browser or games it should operate like every other app and get cleared out of memory until it is used again.
I never had those two features on. But the Facebook app is a piece of junk, that's why it destroys your battery life.
Haven't seen it affect battery life on a few different devices that I've dealt with over the years.
I use the Facebook website. It works just as good as the native app. I don't know why people want to download apps for everything when the website gets the job done.
Notifications would be one of the reasons. For many sites it's also that a full featured good mobile version might not be available.
Most sites work for me and I'm not so glued to facebook that I need notifications all the time. I just log on a couple times a day to see what's new. I travel light. No need for me to have a lot of apps.
I realize that, but I'm a firm believer in "you don't need an app for everything in your life".
Just like "You don't need to be a rewards member at every store you walk into".
That's good, as I mentioned. It's just that others believe in doing things in other ways that work out for them. Doesn't make one way or the other any more right or wrong or good or bad basically.
I didn't say either way was right or wrong. That's just the way I choose to do things. I don't have battery life problems or slowness. I also never close any of my apps and I also leave bluetooth on 24/7.
I have Facebook and many other apps that I use and also don't have battery problems.