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iPhone Random App Lauch on Reboot
- Thread starter brn2ski00
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I see. The apps listed there aren't necessarily running as it's primarily a list of recently used apps (vs a list of actually running apps).
so that is how iOS 9.x works? Previous versions IIRC only had apps that were actually open when rebooting.
Nope. Always just a list of previously used apps. Nothing indicated if they were open or closed.
Some people spend all day closing them thinking they are running. That's not how iOS works.
Unless you have a specific reason for closing them then just leave them. It uses more battery power to load and unload things from memory plus the screen time of you actually doing the task. If iOS needs more memory it will close an app by itself. Well not actually close, suspend it.
What you are seeing isn't apps running after a reboot. They are just screenshots of the apps you used prior to closing out apps and quickly rebooting.
The app switcher doesn't update which screenshots the very second you close things out. So when you rebooted, it's loading the last saved screenshots it did.
I heard reports of people saying that 9.1 doesn't do this. So maybe they tweaked how soon after the app switcher saves which the screenshots.
The bolded part is only true to a certain point. Especially on 1gb ram devices. It doesn't take much to have an app kicked from ram. Say you open app 1, then over the course of 20-25 minutes or so, you've opened 2-3 more apps. Odds are very likely app 1 has been kicked out of ram by those 2-3 other apps you used. App 1 would need to fully relaunch again, thus losing out on that precious "battery saving".
In the case of the new phones with 2gb of ram. It can still happen but takes much longer to do it. Since 2-3 apps wouldn't tie up all the ram and kick out app 1 as quickly.
Its an old misunderstanding. The list of apps was never a "currently running apps". Which is why people thought they're "closing apps" by swipping up in that list. That list is merely a list of recently used apps.