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What's the point of the new app switcher?
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Lol man! You're on MR since 2007. And still you don't know how multitasking on iOS works? Kidding?
It's certainly not common knowledge; I first heard of it yesterday.
With that said, it IS sensible if you think about it. It's not actually the act of quitting apps that causes the battery drain, but rather the extra load from quitting an app that you're about to relaunch. In the case of apps that you use rarely, it probably does make sense to quit them.
With that said, it IS sensible if you think about it. It's not actually the act of quitting apps that causes the battery drain, but rather the extra load from quitting an app that you're about to relaunch. In the case of apps that you use rarely, it probably does make sense to quit them.
Sorry I've been busy with Uni and am not connected to the hip of this website.
pros:
- quicker at quitting apps
- quicker scrolling through apps
- larger preview
- (subjective) fresh look
cons:
- slightly obscured preview (right side)
- (subjective) the way the animation doesn't map 1:1 to your finger as you scroll through but goes slightly faster can feel a bit weird. but this is partly what makes it so quick.
- quicker at quitting apps
- quicker scrolling through apps
- larger preview
- (subjective) fresh look
cons:
- slightly obscured preview (right side)
- (subjective) the way the animation doesn't map 1:1 to your finger as you scroll through but goes slightly faster can feel a bit weird. but this is partly what makes it so quick.
iOS has quite a few restrictions on background activities of apps. In normal cases, apps will suspend in memory forever after you put it in an inactive state, until iOS has to reclaim the memory. The suspension may delay for up to 10 minutes, but that's for the apps to preserve the data or complete tasks that are still in progress. Another exception is the up-to-30-second opportunistic, throttled window for Background App Refresh and Silent Remote Notifications. The last exception is the long-running background service of VOIP apps (Skype, WhatsApp, Viber, etc). So manually terminating most of the apps generally does not help battery life, since the memory is always powered on anyway.
That's said closing apps have an implication to iOS - you tell iOS you don't want an app to run in background. So until next time you launch it, all the background modes of the app would not be triggered.
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There is one God awfully coded app you should quit and that's Facebook.
Is it still a swipe up (away) action to close the apps? Can you do multiple ones at the same time?
Looks disgustingly similar to me
Yes it is still swipe up to close. I don't think you can close multiple ones at the same time.
Now for me that's bad news. I turned off recent but love favorites !
yep it's still swipe up to close. and as before swipe down does the resistance animation ie nothing.
yes you can close multiple. I managed up to 4 at once, but this is very tricky. 3 is more or less as easy as before. but you probably won't find the need to do this as it's easy to swipe them away one at a time quickly.
Interesting that they just did away with favorites. At least there are widgets like Launcher where something like that can be added to the Notification Center that is accessible in many places.
Part of the reasoning, I am sure, is that you are (may be) more likely to interact with someone with whom you've had recent contact. Not sure I buy that, but that was a theory that was presented to me. I get really confused by the "here it is" in one release and "we take it away" in the next. Grrrrr.
as that person said they are "nowhere to be found", I feel I should just make clear it's still in the phone app.
the other thing is that... my proactive Siri lists my favourites - the first 4. I have only called and texted my first favourite since installing. I guess favourites are the default here until you call/text others?
Yeah, seems like they should have at least provided the option to have either one in the new location given what they introduced in iOS 8 (or was it 7).
Yeah I figured they should still be there in the phone app, just didn't word that as well as I could have. Interesting about them being there by default at least at first in the proactive area.
so I texted a non-favourite and they now appear in the 2nd position, after a favourite I had texted earlier. the algorithm may be a bit more complex but it seems to favour favourites but eventually push out non-recent favourites for recent non-favourites. it's a good mix I'd say.
There are actually 8 positions. There's a little "Show More" in the upper right that expands the Recents to 8 and the apps to 6. There's also some wonkiness with the 8 recents. If you tap on one of the contacts in the 2nd row, the contact in position 5 (bottom row, column 1) moves to the top row, column 2. And then close the action menu, the contact in position 5 disappears completely.
ah thanks for pointing out you can see more. as I suspected the algorithm may be too complex to understand with only a few tests but a non-favourite I called just now is in the 7th position _after_ favourites I haven't contacted in weeks. even though a non-favourite I texted is now in 2nd position.
all I can conclude is that favourites haven't completely gone... and in a way, if you don't contact your favourites ever and regularly contact 'non-favourites' maybe there's no point showing favourites anyway???