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Other Do you force close your apps everytime? Is there OCD?
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For starters there is no force close on an iPhone. An app is either closed or open. If you mean swiping the app in the show all active mode then the answer is periodically I close all active apps. What is OCD? Or are you referring to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder? If so I don't think it's Obsessive to close unused apps periodically. I know people who never close any apps but they also have the habit of turning their phones off every couple of days while I never turn mine off which would have the same effect.
This should have been a poll.
That said: I know many people who just force close their apps out of habit. They want their app switching window to be clean. Nothing bad to it - it just takes longer to reload the apps when they have to start again from zero.
I don‘t do it at all, only if an app hangs or behaves weirdly.
That said: I know many people who just force close their apps out of habit. They want their app switching window to be clean. Nothing bad to it - it just takes longer to reload the apps when they have to start again from zero.
I don‘t do it at all, only if an app hangs or behaves weirdly.
Sometimes I do but I don't give much thought to it. Meaning I don't do it for any particular reason. Then there are the times I look at my phone and I haven't closed apps for days and I'm like damn...
Never thought about doing this, I only close apps when something stalls, which is seldom.
iOS will suspend background apps after a period of time and keave a placeholder picture "card" of the app in the task switcher. That placeholder uses almost zero ram, but it does use a little. Depending on how much ram is installed, the culling of apps by iOS is more or less frequent.
The task switcher/app switcher is a very useful feature in iOS and it becomes almost useless if it's allowed to accumulate every app you've ever opened.
I think it a good housecleaning habit of clearing it out once a day so it's not so cluttered.
But it's totally unnecessary to force quit apps after each use.
The task switcher/app switcher is a very useful feature in iOS and it becomes almost useless if it's allowed to accumulate every app you've ever opened.
I think it a good housecleaning habit of clearing it out once a day so it's not so cluttered.
But it's totally unnecessary to force quit apps after each use.
Same, seems like a waste of time to go in and clear all your apps all the time, just my opinion.
I used to do it all the time but I learned that it's better to leave them, as iOS will do its job and I'm now much less stressed about not having to close them.
I do for the ones that I only use occasionally - not for the ones I use all the time. I know Apple says they manage apps and memory etc but my life in computers tells me to close what I'm not going to use.
I think I do it out of habit. Not sure why I have this habit but it is both on iPhone and Android that I do it.
Never crosses my mind unless I need to restart an app that’s not acting correctly but even then, I only close that particular app. I don’t bother with all of them and won’t unless Apple decides to offer a ‘close all’ option.
Only if there is an especially demanding or a misbehaving app. Otherwise no. iOS handles this very well. It's mostly a waste of your time to do it yourself.
For not as recently used apps, they may be in the app switcher but I just tap the home screen icon.
What is glorious is swiping the gesture bar right to get apps 1-4 apps ago! Magic.
For not as recently used apps, they may be in the app switcher but I just tap the home screen icon.
What is glorious is swiping the gesture bar right to get apps 1-4 apps ago! Magic.
I leave apps that I use frequently open but any app that isn't is force closed when I'm finished with it..
Nah I don’t care once every blue moon I clear them but
I do care about keeping location service heavy apps closed like google maps when not using them
I do care about keeping location service heavy apps closed like google maps when not using them
I used to, but there really isn't any point to it. I only close those apps that I use once in a while, but all my most used apps stay open.
Despite all rational and scientific logic I close everything. It’s like an itch you can’t scratch.
I think having to work with Vista and 512mb ram for a year has left me scarred for life even though it was well over a decade ago.
I think having to work with Vista and 512mb ram for a year has left me scarred for life even though it was well over a decade ago.
Nope, I never close apps unless the app is being buggy and needs a restart.
I learnt years ago to just let things run and allow the system to manage all of that while I go on with my daily life.
On both my iOS and Android devices I don’t do any of that, it’s pointless.
There is no way to force close all your apps. It's not typically a problem however it should be avoided, especially the foreground app. "Forcing" software to do anything outside its own programming isn't typically wise due to variables the developer can't account for.
Force closing an app in iOS is like Force Quit in MacOS or End Task from Task Manager in Windows 10. A healthy app cycle includes the opportunity to tidy up, save data, release its resources and end the app process. Apple says it should only be used for unresponsive apps (like MacOS and Windows force quit).
In iOS an app moved to the background is given a few seconds to perform those shut down steps to prepare itself in the event resources are needed and iOS (or the user) terminates it operation. iOS will send out low memory warnings that give apps the ability to release memory using assets.
Allowing iOS to handle it is typically better for battery life because iOS can keep the entire app or portions of the app ready to reopen without the CPU needing to start from scratch reading data from NAND.
There are a lot of variables here when it comes to the app actually doing something in the background if it has access to API's that allow background operation but thats a different topic.
Regardless if this literally triggers your OCD there isn't going to be much you can do about it. You gotta do what you gotta do but unfortunately there isn't a 'close all'.
Force closing an app in iOS is like Force Quit in MacOS or End Task from Task Manager in Windows 10. A healthy app cycle includes the opportunity to tidy up, save data, release its resources and end the app process. Apple says it should only be used for unresponsive apps (like MacOS and Windows force quit).
In iOS an app moved to the background is given a few seconds to perform those shut down steps to prepare itself in the event resources are needed and iOS (or the user) terminates it operation. iOS will send out low memory warnings that give apps the ability to release memory using assets.
Allowing iOS to handle it is typically better for battery life because iOS can keep the entire app or portions of the app ready to reopen without the CPU needing to start from scratch reading data from NAND.
There are a lot of variables here when it comes to the app actually doing something in the background if it has access to API's that allow background operation but thats a different topic.
Regardless if this literally triggers your OCD there isn't going to be much you can do about it. You gotta do what you gotta do but unfortunately there isn't a 'close all'.