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iOS 7 'Close All' Multitasking!
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No need to close apps, unless one has crashed.
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/01/05/how-ios-multitasking-really-works/
http://www.idownloadblog.com/2012/01/05/how-ios-multitasking-really-works/
"Closing" all apps is useful when you want to switch rapidly between a few apps and don't want to scroll through all the other open and recently used apps. You close all apps, then open just the ones you'll be using, and it's a much cleaner experience. This is one of the reasons I'm sticking with jailbreak -- there are tweaks to close all apps at once, and also tweaks to show only actually running apps, and even a tweak that shows both recently open and actually running apps, but the ones that have been recently opened but not actually running are grey.
Restart?
It's not something that I would ever expect to be added. Apple has made it clear that they don't believe that managing background processes should be the users job.
Yes, Steve once said that, but then why do we have the option to close apps?
Every OS needs a task manager, but iOS strives to be more intelligent so that users won't have to think about closing apps. Power users will definitely need a task manager.
Either way the apps that you are using are the most recent ones. There is no difference in the amount of scrolling in your scenario.I'm convinced that most calls for "Close All" are a result of at least a mild form of OCD.
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1) Sometimes, we want to remove an app from the recently used list for privacy reasons.
2) Sometimes, things go wrong.
Despite what everyone tells you, closing all of your apps cleers up RAM(jailbreak apps prove this), so if you're going to do something intensive (game playing, video watching, etc) closing all of the background apps makes the phone a bit more responsive.
Being 'frozen' in an inactive state still uses some memory, and the more apps you have frozen the less RAM you have. I close all apps and do a reboot once in a while just to clear out the memory, no phone is perfect and doing this is good for any device- phone, computer, ios, android, whatever
Being 'frozen' in an inactive state still uses some memory, and the more apps you have frozen the less RAM you have. I close all apps and do a reboot once in a while just to clear out the memory, no phone is perfect and doing this is good for any device- phone, computer, ios, android, whatever
I'm convinced that most calls for "Close All" are a result of at least a mild form of OCD.
True, it just feels cleaner, and easier. I know people that never close any programs, even on their desktops. You sit down at their computer and find a hundred windows open, dozens of tabs in each window.... I religiously close each program as soon as I'm done with it. It's how the open stuff shows in my peripheral vision that annoys me. I think some people are just more sensitive to visual clutter than others.
Despite what you are telling us, iOS will automatically clear out those apps taking up RAM if the foreground app needs more RAM.
Thanks for this I didn't know. It makes it a little better. I still think there should be a small icon on the bottom of the screen to close everything.
My girlfriend's mum has had an iPad 2 since day 1.
She doesn't know how to see all the recently used apps, and definately doesn't know how to "close" them.
She plays lots of games, and uses it every evening.
For over 2 years she's used it almost every day, and she hasn't once complained about battery life or bad performance.
PS. And if there was a reason to complain, believe me, she would!
She doesn't know how to see all the recently used apps, and definately doesn't know how to "close" them.
She plays lots of games, and uses it every evening.
For over 2 years she's used it almost every day, and she hasn't once complained about battery life or bad performance.
PS. And if there was a reason to complain, believe me, she would!
And it will make your iPhone slower since each time you open an app it will have to completely load itself in memory.
Like many others said, there's no reason to quit apps on iOS, unless the app is misbehaving.
iOS 7 handles multitasking differently, while I am sure it handles it "better" the fact that things now have more options for running in the background task managing might become more of a good idea. I have noticed thus far in iOS 7 that quitting some apps DOES make a noticeable difference where iOS 6, not so much.
I don't get this. Why then when I close Pandora from the app switcher does it stop playing music if this is only "browser history-like"?
Because Apple designed it to quit the app when you remove it from the "browser history-like" list.
One thing you forgot to mention:
When iOS runs low on memory, it automatically kills background apps. Only the first few apps in the multitasking switcher are frozen, the rest is just a list of recents. Closing the first three or so will free up RAM, closing all of them is completely unnecessary.
Because it's still connected the background API's that are always running and will stop the music playing on that background process. So that's why it's browser history "LIKE" and not just browser history.
That's not the entire truth. It might be the theory of the concept, but the practical reality is different. If I send my navigation app to the background, it keeps running and talking and sucking energy. Need to close it. Also mail keeps making pling at every incoming email. Reminders indicates gps useage unless it's propperly closed. And I believe there are more.
I'm not saying that the automatic background management is obsolete because obviously it does a good job. But I think it can't eliminate the need of "really" closing apps.
To avoid unnececary discussions and include the ocd fraction, let me re-phrase it to "How to clear the recent apps list at once?"
In these cases, Mail continues to "pling" even if you hard close the app. Turn off push/fetch.
And if Reminders is using GPS then it is because you have a geofenced reminder set up that depends on it and will not work properly without it. Turn off location services for the app or don't use location-based reminders.