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On the X why cant you just swipe up to close the open apps?

This bothered me for a few days. Now it’s like second nature.

I’m still wondering why they took away the 3D Touch activator functionality of app switcher and didn’t add something else to that. It was one of the few gesture driven activities they had they they completely nixed.
 
Looney01 said:
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.
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There's also 3D Touch to get into the app switcher. Swipe up from the bottom a little and then 3D Touch it and it will get you directly into the app switcher.
 
gwang73 said:
There's also 3D Touch to get into the app switcher. Swipe up from the bottom a little and then 3D Touch it and it will get you directly into the app switcher.
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Yeah but that’s not as fast as swiping up in an upside down L shape. That works for me just fine.
 
MrX8503 said:
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.
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Seems like you might benefit from iOS 11.1.1 (unless thst wasn't typed on an iOS device).
 
A jailbreak solves this issue without any confusion or any extra steps. In my opinion, there is no good reason to have to hold an app first to get the red delete icon before needing to swipe up anyway.
 
touchme89 said:
They've made it harder on purpose, you shouldn't be force closing your apps anyway (unless the app has crashed), it has a detrimental affect on your battery.
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Unless it’s an app like Snapchat or Facebook which will destroy your battery if you let them sit in the background.
 
Kram Sacul said:
Bad decision to remove the minus sign in iOS 12. It’s way faster to hit it than swiping away one app at a time. They should’ve kept it.
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Pressing the minus sign for each app you wish to close is faster than swiping up on each app?
Just goes to show how different we all use our phones and what each of us finds better productive. Wish apple would give us choices rather then this or that :)
 
Raist3001 said:
Pressing the minus sign for each app you wish to close is faster than swiping up on each app?
Just goes to show how different we all use our phones and what each of us finds better productive. Wish apple would give us choices rather then this or that :)
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There’s really no question about it. It’s way quicker to tap the red buttons to empty out the app switcher.

darngooddesign said:
Apple can’t win.
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Yeah, they can. Keep the red minus sign. Everyone is happy.
 
I rarely close apps on my phone but usually Quit when using MacOS. As I don’t use apps like Facebook or YouTube and have background activity off, I don’t have a problem, at least not one that bothers me. I never use the app switcher to look for previous apps, it’s far quicker (for me) to go to my one Home screen and launch whichever app I need. Only one home screen necessary as everything is organised in folders so it’s fast to tap folder then app.

Looking forward to LCD screen phone with no home button, although price isn’t the issue for me, I just want high quality top spec LCD screen device, not overly large and of course running iOS. Full screen on my 8 would be great as the X is nothing like it, I know I had one. It felt unbalanced one handed, far heavier and the PWM flickering drove me mad as did no battery % and control panel access at the top of screen.
 
Kram Sacul said:
There’s really no question about it. It’s way quicker to tap the red buttons to empty out the app switcher.



Yeah, they can. Keep the red minus sign. Everyone is happy.
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No it’s not faster. Before iOS 12 changes things, it’s WAY faster to hold on an app, and then use both thumbs simultaneously to swipe up two apps at a time. You can do this without thinking.

And if you’re just closing the one app, it’s faster to hold down on the app until the red minus sign appears, and swipe up without even lifting your finger at any point.
 
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noobinator said:
What if they kept the red minus sign and allowed us to swipe up? We get a choice. :D
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Then the dumb people will be upset because they'll be confused and find it too complicated (am I supposed to swipe or push the d#$% button!). As was mentioned earlier, Apple can't win.
 
touchme89 said:
They've made it harder on purpose, you shouldn't be force closing your apps anyway (unless the app has crashed), it has a detrimental affect on your battery.
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This is true. In part.

But leaving nav apps running in the background uses even more battery. There is a place for closing apps and it doesn't need to be unnecessarily difficult.
 
What's this " You should not close apps nonsense ". It's absurd.

Apps freeze, stuttered and from time to time need restarting.

Just because you choose not to close their apps, that's your preference but some people do. You should be able to swipe up and close the app. It would make it easier. The holding until you get the minus sign is an unnecessary extra step.
 
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nia820 said:
I swear some of you apple sheeple are ridiculous. What's this " You should not close apps nonsense ". It's absurd.
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First of all, it's a fact that if you have an app open, close it (swipe up to kill the app) and then restart it, it WILL use more battery than if you simply exit out and go right back in without killing the app.

With that said, how much is actually wasted? To be honest, I close stuff all the time and I've never noticed a negative impact. I'm not saying is doesn't take extra juice, I'm just not sure it's noticeable. Perhaps if you added them all up from an entire day you might notice a difference. Or maybe not.

Personally, I think this falls into the same category as things like turning off bluetooth, wi-fi, etc. to save every single electron possible. I'd rather not micro-manage my phone and prefer to just use it however I choose. Power is easy (for me) to come by, so I'm not concerned if re-opening email throughout the day uses an extra 2% of my battery. It's not like I can't get through a day, so I honestly don't care about best practices in this scenario. I'd rather charge more often than worry about what might be running at any particular time and eating my battery.

If anyone has any hard evidence that killing and re-opening actually does eat up a significant portion of your battery, I'd love to read more. But in all my years, I've never seen such evidence. Just the same old thing from Apple repeated over and over and over and over.
 
nia820 said:
What's this " You should not close apps nonsense ". It's absurd.

Apps freeze, stuttered and from time to time need restarting.

Just because you choose not to close their apps, that's your preference but some people do. You should be able to swipe up and close the app. It would make it easier. The holding until you get the minus sign is an unnecessary extra step.
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Just a random myth like the iOS re-indexing days lol.
 
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MEJHarrison said:
First of all, it's a fact that if you have an app open, close it (swipe up to kill the app) and then restart it, it WILL use more battery than if you simply exit out and go right back in without killing the app.

With that said, how much is actually wasted? To be honest, I close stuff all the time and I've never noticed a negative impact. I'm not saying is doesn't take extra juice, I'm just not sure it's noticeable. Perhaps if you added them all up from an entire day you might notice a difference. Or maybe not.

Personally, I think this falls into the same category as things like turning off bluetooth, wi-fi, etc. to save every single electron possible. I'd rather not micro-manage my phone and prefer to just use it however I choose. Power is easy (for me) to come by, so I'm not concerned if re-opening email throughout the day uses an extra 2% of my battery. It's not like I can't get through a day, so I honestly don't care about best practices in this scenario. I'd rather charge more often than worry about what might be running at any particular time and eating my battery.

If anyone has any hard evidence that killing and re-opening actually does eat up a significant portion of your battery, I'd love to read more. But in all my years, I've never seen such evidence. Just the same old thing from Apple repeated over and over and over and over.
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Agreed! People act like battery will run down 10% if you close an app.lol

Turning a TV on and off burns more electricity than leaving it on. So are they going to leave their TVs on too? Haha.

It's not about battery life . It's about the fact that apps freeze and crash. It may eat up battery but when an app freezes what else are you suppose to do? And sometimes even native apps freeze. People here act like apps work fine 24/7.

So for those times you need to close an app, swiping up is the easiest gesture.

I sometimes don't get people on this forum.
 
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