Sorry for the caps...but this made me very happy!!!! 
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IOS12-SWIPE UP TO CLOSE open apps!!!!!
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Used to have it for a long time, lost it with the X. But I'm glad they fixed it in 12, was a pain to hold on the screen and wait for the Red minus to pop up before you could close apps.
I got so used to long pressing, swiping up, and then double tapping the home screen that I'm constantly launching Mail or Messages by accident now.
All in all, though, I much prefer it the way it is now on iOS 12. Just takes a while for muscle memory to readjust.
All in all, though, I much prefer it the way it is now on iOS 12. Just takes a while for muscle memory to readjust.
I agree. I never understood what the problem was with the old way. Long press unwanted app and flick it when the minus sign appeared. Less than a second to close? I don't see a downside to the new way so, Meh.
On iPhone X with iOS 11 you don’t close the apps by swiping up like on the other iPhones
I have the iPhone X...so I just assumed it was this way for them all with the new software updates. Anyway...I'm glad they switched it back in IOS12.
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I really never had a problem with it either...but my husband could never quite figure it out...lol. So he's happy too!
[doublepost=1537242641][/doublepost]I’m not really sure I understand you, could you explain further? Everything I am looking at says it is in fact a force close. Thank you.
In my experience, it does really mean you're closing the apps, as in, if I touch the app icon after doing this, the whole launch process starts from the beginning instead of resuming where I left off. Generally, even if an app's screen is in this "recently used" list, the system may silently close the app (but keep the screenshot of the app in the list) as resource management requires.
Normally when you leave an app, it’s state is saved and the app quits. That improves the user experience because it’s quicker to relaunch. The app isn’t “running”, using CPU, GPU, or RAM. There are just a few exceptions to this rule—for example the Music app plays in the background, navigation apps can run, network uploads and downloads may continue for a few minutes, etc.
However, when you do the “close” trick, you’re deleting the saved state info. When you relaunch the app it’s forced to rebuild its data structures and reinititialize. That takes both time and power.
The list of apps you see in the multitasking interface is better thought of as a list of recently used apps, not a list of running apps. On the Mac you have a list of recently used apps under the Apple menu. It’s nothing but a list. Nobody goes and clears that list routinely. The iOS multitasking interface is like that for most apps.
Apple explains it in this support document. The purpose of force closing is to quit unresponsive apps. The rest are better left alone. You actually reduce battery life by “force closing” apps because they’re forced to do more work when they relaunch.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201330
However, when you do the “close” trick, you’re deleting the saved state info. When you relaunch the app it’s forced to rebuild its data structures and reinititialize. That takes both time and power.
The list of apps you see in the multitasking interface is better thought of as a list of recently used apps, not a list of running apps. On the Mac you have a list of recently used apps under the Apple menu. It’s nothing but a list. Nobody goes and clears that list routinely. The iOS multitasking interface is like that for most apps.
Apple explains it in this support document. The purpose of force closing is to quit unresponsive apps. The rest are better left alone. You actually reduce battery life by “force closing” apps because they’re forced to do more work when they relaunch.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201330
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For those interested in a more in-depth explanation there’s an excellent article written by John Gruber titled “Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS”
https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/you_should_not_force_quit_apps
Glad also but it going to take me a couple of days to get used to it, again
Except Facebook it would seem. That just uses your phone’s resources as it sees fit. I always make an exception to force close that.