Kill running apps in background

[NJFP]

In iOS6, you would double tap the home button, and all the running apps in the background would show along the bottom. Hold, they shake, and you would kill them. Not so in iOS7. How do we now kill the apps running in the background?

 

[Tyler23]

In iOS6, you would double tap the home button, and all the running apps in the background would show along the bottom. Hold, they shake, and you would kill them. Not so in iOS7. How do we now kill the apps running in the background?

Double tap the home button, and swipe up on the app preview.

 

[NJFP]

Oh, well thats slick! Thanks!!!

 

[Resqu2]

Thanks

 

[C DM]

By the way, all the apps that appear there aren't really running in the background. Some might be, but vast majority aren't, they are just recent apps that were used, nothing more.

 

[matttye]

By the way, all the apps that appear there aren't really running in the background. Some might be, but vast majority aren't, they are just recent apps that were used, nothing more.

Their state might be stored in RAM so you can quickly switch back to wherever you left off in that app.

Although iOS will clear out those cached apps when an app needs to use the memory, so there's usually no need to close them.

IN THEORY, at least. I tend to find that iMessage is more reliable when I don't have lots of apps in the multitasking tray.

 

[severe]

Double tap the home button, and swipe up on the app preview.

To those that are new to this, you can also swipe up 2 at a time.

 

[Tyler23]

To those that are new to this, you can also swipe up 2 at a time.

You can actually swipe three at a time.