It asks you if you want to enable at 20%. I said yes. I’m not trying to trick you or something (what would I gain?). I do disable things I don’t need, like background app refresh, and most push notifications, and I use auto brightness to keep my display on the dim side while indoors, but if I just had low power mode on 24/7 I would have said so.
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Stop telling people that they shouldn't close apps
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It asks you if you want to enable at 20%. I said yes. I’m not trying to trick you or something (what would I gain?). I do disable things I don’t need, like background app refresh, and most push notifications, and I use auto brightness to keep my display on the dim side while indoors, but if I just had low power mode on 24/7 I would have said so.
My mistake, I thought I was in a X is better than 8+ thread of people arguing that the X last longer... but still, kill Facebook it rapes your battery. I don't even have it on my phone, I use the browser.
I close apps all the time, but only because I hate scrolling through a bunch of them when I go to switch. It is much like how I prefer to start and end the day with a clean desk, though having a messy one does not affect my desk's lifespan.
I get where you’re coming from.
All I can say is I’ve done it both ways and I haven’t noticed a significant difference. But there are many factors at play when it comes to battery life.
The best battery tip I can give is to avoid places with weak cellular signals, or if possible/practical, turn off cellular when you’re in such places. Struggling to find a signal is the one thing that truly murders my battery!
Oh man. This thread just reminded me to close all of my open apps. Done and done.
Look, all of those are legitimate reasons to close APP. I don't think that anyone is saying you shouldn't close APPs for any of those reasons.
Many people who have been around since the early days of windows however were conditioned to always close apps running in the background because old school OSes were very poor at managing memory... the user had to manage the memory actively or things would slow down and start caching to disk.
This behavior of obsessively closing Apps simply because you aren't actively using it is what people are trying to discourage. OBVIOUSLY in the case of misbehaving apps/private screenshots/network refreshes on ****** apps you do what you have to do. That goes without saying.
Backround app refresh is just one aspect of apps being able to do something in the background. General ability of apps to run in the background for a limited period of time is built-in into iOS and isn't controllable by users. Most apps can only do it for a bit of time after each use essentially, but some thst support something like VoIP, media playback, location tracking, and the like can do it for a longer period of time.
@Dented. Please read through this thread carefully and take the time to understand what you were Refuring in a previous discussion weeks back is completely contrary to what you were saying is highly inaccurate. I'm sure you find some useful information in this thread based your own logical fallacy.
Lol, no.
Refer me to all the threads you like, there is no good reason to routinely close all apps. Doing so only decreases your battery life and wastes time.
I take things to the extreme...I close apps, I do the home button RAM clearing, I restart my phone, I delete all calls/messages/emails/website tabs, clear history/website data, move all photos off my phone, clear my calculator to 0, etc. etc. etc.
I keep my phone so clean and organized that people would think I was trying to hide a horrendous crime.
I keep my phone so clean and organized that people would think I was trying to hide a horrendous crime.
You don't get to tell people what their reasons are. And at what level can you possibly say that someone's reason is compelling? Should someone only do something because it cures cancer? Anything less than that is not compelling and therefore not worth doing? These reasons are far more real to people because they actually address real needs and issues they might have on a daily basis.
Ironic considering that is exactly what your OP was.
If any of that were true, there would be no such thing as software development.
Yes, I do get to tell what you should or shouldn't do because there are objective reasons to do things one way or the other. If you want to invent new reasons that you assign a value - fine. But they have no bearing on the real world. No one needs to close apps for any of the reasons cited (except you).
If an app misbehaves or becomes unresponsive, close it. That is precisely the only reason why you are able to close apps at all.
What's the objective reason to leave the app running in the background?
iOS these days reloads almost everything every time I change an app or even just go 'Back' a page in Safari.
The "live" preview of the app is almost always not what it will be when I go into it, anyways. Pretty irritating when you get ready to use the app as it loads back in, only to have the "live" view of it suddenly change to a reload of the app or some other change.