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On the X why cant you just swipe up to close the open apps?
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You may not care. Others do.
As you can see from just this thread, some people are not aware that closing (most) apps is counter to good management in iOS. If the advice doesn’t apply to you, keep scrolling. How hard is that? In every thread about it, at least a couple of people mention how “good” they are about closing out apps. It’s like the old wives tales that persist about battery charging.
No one is saying that you should never close apps that are misbehaving, but a lot of people think that closing apps as a matter of course is good management. It isn’t.
I too close some apps, if they’re being dumb (hello Facebook), but I don’t just close everything all the time. I do care about battery and RAM.
This isn't the iOS 4, 5 and 6 days anymore when apps really were just frozen in memory. Apps now actually do things in the background even if you have background app refresh disabled, they will get around it. The Youtube and Facebook apps are some examples of this. Intentionally or not some apps can go rogue. I'm also skeptical that closing all your apps can negatively affect your battery life in any significant way.
I still try to close apps that way but I’m getting used to the new way it makes sense that you might accidentally close an app if it did it the old way. That would probably piss people off more.
The fact of the matter is that WHEN I have an app go bonkers(daily) and I go into the app switcher I now have one extra step. If I wanted extra steps I would have went with android.
As far as the swipe up gesture that only goes home when you swipe up from the BOTTOM of the phone. The app switcher is in the middle of the phone. Absolute garbage in my opinion.
As far as the swipe up gesture that only goes home when you swipe up from the BOTTOM of the phone. The app switcher is in the middle of the phone. Absolute garbage in my opinion.
My thinking is that it's that way so that people don't accidentally close an app as they enter multitasking since it takes a swipe up to enter it, if app closing is already enabled there would likely be people who could be unintentionally closing the first app that appears just as part of them entering multitasking.
Don’t pretend to be serious. That “nobody on the web” just happens to be Craig Federighi, Apple”s Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, responsible for the development of iOS. He knows.
But wouldn’t that feature disable when you’re in the multitask mode? Or at least when the swiping is happening in the mid section where the apps are that you’re trying to close that should be recognized. Now if the swiping is happening at the bottom then yes, go to home.
The compulsive app closing that people engage is a remnant of bad advice given out years ago.
If an app is hanging, sure, go ahead and kill it. Apple doesn’t need to design an interface for people to engage in a behavior that really doesn’t add value. As linked above, doing so isn’t great for the system or your battery despite popular opinion.
If an app is hanging, sure, go ahead and kill it. Apple doesn’t need to design an interface for people to engage in a behavior that really doesn’t add value. As linked above, doing so isn’t great for the system or your battery despite popular opinion.
Well, no. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen is the gesture to go home. There’s no reason for not being able to swipe up from the middle of the screen to close an app you want to reset. It’s very annoying to take the extra time to press and hold first.
(And this is coming from someone who is an advocate for leaving everything “open” - I only kill apps when necessary.)
Or a forum post from someone who doesn’t have any idea what he is talking about. Do some research before embarrassing yourself.
Regardless if it's good or bad for battery life, I hope they change their minds on the middle step of long pressing to bring up the close app button as they did change the behavior on the iPad to just swipe to dismiss.
Despite the fact iOS freezes apps in the background and iOS doesn’t drain battery while apps are open in the background, We are all programmed to force close apps to save battery and save background processing. Not sure how this happened but we are. Anyway OP is right. The double step process isn’t necessary and should be easier.
That has been mostly the case until recently. YouTube was draining so much battery when we use chrome cast to tv. I don’t know if that’s YouTube issue or ios11 issue. Same case with Facebook. They always show up as working in background even being disabled in App background refresh.
There’s a nice trick to getting into app switcher must faster. Swipe up in an upside down L shape in one motion. It’s a lot faster that way.
There are very few rogue apps on iOS (at least compared to Android).
Facebook was found to play silent audio to keep the app live to track users. Supposedly they fixed this, due to bad press. I️ just deleted the app instead because I️ don’t trust Facebook.
YouTube does the same thing and I️ believe it’s still an issue because Google doesn’t get bad press and can get away with it.
For these two exceptions, I️ recommend force closing them or deleting the app.
This exactly. I highly doubt that Tim Cook or any Apple exec leaves 50 apps open in mutlitasking. It's just plain annoying and should be easier to quit, close, exit them.
This. I read that daring fireball article and tried to use my phone with multiple apps open for a good few hours. Hated it. I don’t like having 58 apps to scroll through to find the one I need.
I’ve resumed my regularly scheduled process of closing apps. I can deal with the potential battery life loss
I did, and I still stand. I've worked on computers for 25 years, and can tell you closing apps is still recommended that you aren't using. Even though I don't do it on my iOS devices and close them all the time, I do on my Android devices. Now if Apple made it easier to close all the apps at once, then I would do it.
You still can't get past the issue where APPS still keep resources in the memory, and requires CPU and Memory to do that. Why do you have apps that crash often? Because of the resources. Apple will never admit that.
