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Other Do you tend to close your apps, or leave them running in the background?
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I don’t close, unless it is for some rare troubleshooting Reason.
If you look into the size of the battery compared to per hour usage you’ll find on average iPhone battery optimisation is better than Android in general but the numbers of course will vary depending on the manufacturer.
If your goal is efficiency, ignore apps in the app switcher. iOS will deal with whatever resources and will cut them off if they are not being used. It's actually more inefficient when it comes to power to manually force close apps, then re-open them. If for some OCD reason you must have a clean app switcher then by all means do what you do. Just don't think you're saving battery because it actually uses more battery to do this.
In general I don't close iOS apps, but do on macOS or Windows/Linux.
There is one app I use for work on the iPad that I force close if I'm not using it, but that's a battery life thing. For whatever reason the developers haven't figured out how to keep the app from sucking down power even in the background (and there's really no reason for it to be doing anything unless it's active). It's been like this for years and drives me nuts, since it's such a solid app otherwise.
There is one app I use for work on the iPad that I force close if I'm not using it, but that's a battery life thing. For whatever reason the developers haven't figured out how to keep the app from sucking down power even in the background (and there's really no reason for it to be doing anything unless it's active). It's been like this for years and drives me nuts, since it's such a solid app otherwise.
If the app isn’t working properly, sure, killing and reopening the app might help. Otherwise, it’s basically all downside.
There is absolutely no point in force-closing an app unless it is misbehaving, then a reload will likely fix whatever issue it had.
If you force-close an app it has to load everything from scratch the next time you open it. This has been accepted knowledge for about a decade now. Why are we rehashing this?
If you force-close an app it has to load everything from scratch the next time you open it. This has been accepted knowledge for about a decade now. Why are we rehashing this?
I just leave them unless I have some reason to believe that an app is misbehaving.
This is the way the OS is designed to work.
This is the way the OS is designed to work.
The only time I would ever do this is in an unusual circumstance. For example, after you reach your destination Waze wouldn't turn off location tracking until you put it to sleep. I would just kill the app.
I never close an app on my iPhone 12 PM. I have 35 apps installed on my phone and every one is open.
I cant remember the last time when one reloaded.
Probably because it have 6 GB Ram🙂
I cant remember the last time when one reloaded.
Probably because it have 6 GB Ram🙂
You can only rehash 16 GB RAM as base model so many times. Gotta recycle topics.
That’s weird, unless you have driving directions or something actively working in maps, it shouldn’t impact battery. Only time maps even shows up in battery usage for me is on long drives or when I use it actively for direction.
Like many have already said, I only force close apps if they're "misbehaving" (best word from poster above). iPP 13 Pro, fantastic battery life.
(One quibble about maps [Google or Apple] is that when I pull into my garage the app doesn't think I'm home. So I'll come back to my phone a couple hours later and notice the app is still waiting for me to make three left turns to get to the front of my house. 🤣 )
(One quibble about maps [Google or Apple] is that when I pull into my garage the app doesn't think I'm home. So I'll come back to my phone a couple hours later and notice the app is still waiting for me to make three left turns to get to the front of my house. 🤣 )
Don't the unclosed apps "phone home" and reveal your real IP right before the VPN reastablishes the connection?
VPNs on the iPhone are essentially trash until Apple deems it necessary to fix the leak issue they've had on iOS for years.
Oh wow, I totally forgot about that issue, but wasn't that only the case for all Apple apps?
No. Apple apps in general bypass the VPN, which itself is concerning. The issue with VPNs on iOS is that literally nothing is masked unless you connect the VPN, then turn on airplane mode, wait a minute, then turn it back off so that all fresh connections are then routed through the VPN tunnel. If you just turn the VPN on, nothing is actually being masked because iOS doesn't allow any VPNs to shut down connections from other apps to be re-routed.
iOS VPN apps are broken, says security researcher; Apple not fixed
Update: Apple does appear to have introduced an (optional) fix for this as of iOS 14, but questions remain –...
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As I’m coming from long experience of using an android in the past, I have that obsessive habit of closing the recent apps from time to time. I know that is not required to do in iPhone but I’ve been doing that mistake very habitually not sure how to get rid of that.
There's no reason to stop doing that. I close everything on my iPhone because having nothing open is better for my brain, not that it's actually doing anything beneficial. I wish it didn't bother me, like my mom, who always has 800 million apps open at any given time (or like 10 trillion tabs open in Safari). Just use your phone how you like.
I have a compulsion to close them. Almost OCD level. I've also read it's not necessarily necessary or desirable. But I can't help it. ANd it's become so engrained into my muscle memory.
You just have to stop doing it. You get literally nothing out of doing it. Nothing.
Just think of all the time you're wasting by unnecessarily closing apps, then channel it into something more productive.
That is difficult to do through I’m trying to do that. I hope I will completely forget about recent apps on one fine day.