Why You Shouldn't Close iPhone Apps
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- Опубліковано 8 сер 2021
- For many iPhone users, swiping up to close recently used apps has become second nature, assuming it improves performance and battery life. But that’s actually not the case and I’ll explain why in this video.
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i mean it just feels like i’ve got my life together when i close apps, don’t take it personally Apple
loool
😂😂😂
lol true!
omg, I find this so relatable
Lmao
moms been doing this before all of us 😹
Wdym
That's the only reason I do this
trueee my moms phone is all apps are launched i guess i will start doing that
@@DronePath no she taught me
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You are completely disregarding apps that are using background app refresh or location services and are actively updating while being suspended, which does in fact hurt battery life
Finally, a reasonable comment
He’s also being very disingenuous when he makes it seem like apps take way longer to open. He keeps acting like it’ll take 10 seconds to reopen mail if I close it
I’m an Apple user but this guy has his head way too far up apple’s ass
You can turn off completely background app refresh. It wont make a difference in performance but you'll see significantly better results in battery life
This!
I'm sure there are many like me that will say closing the apps is more of a minimalistic relief rather than actually improving performance.
Who's with me?
Yeah
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Yes, I use my opened apps as my to-do list. The apps that i leave open is because there's something important i need to do with it before the day is over
Having things that clutter my brain in my field of view drives me insane
@@ceptember. That's how I think about so many things. Good system you have there!
Correct 💯
As a mobile developer this is true in theory but in reality there are still a number of apps not optimized that will drain your battery way more if not fully closed.
You can also turn off background activity for apps that abuse background privileges
@@Erik_Nordlund Indeed, I had to do this specifically with the Google Home app. If I moved that to the background and had one of my cameras open my iPad would be drained in an hour with no remorse.
@@JoshuaMcFarland dang, sadly I’m not surprised! My dad was trying to migrate his Google WiFi setup to that app last night, and it wasn’t the best experience… haha
Ding ding
Bingo!
So my parents are doing the right thing with keeping them all open? Who would’ve known
Edit- changed knew with known to keep the ela teachers away
@Bojidara Draganova no, it’s from La Gioconda
@Bojidara Draganova Congrats buddy, you recognize Mona Lisa!
@Bojidara Draganova Yes. You just discovered something nobody knew. Congratulations!
But they can close the tab, that’s annoying
actually when you restart your iphone all the recent apps will stay there but they are all closed
I think in practice, since many apps aren’t properly optimized for this and leaving everything open just clutters the switcher, it would be best to always leave open a small handful of apps you use every day and not worry about closing the rest.
Which is why pinning some apps and close all button would have made a lot of sense. I agree that it would be too cumbersome and apple will probably not go down this road.
I can remember Steve Jobs saying at the time when Apple first introduced the app switcher with iOS I forget now. Steve said, if you need to close apps or have a task manager, when a company designs an OS, you have failed, the user shouldn't have to think about closing the apps. And I totally agree.
every OS ever made has failed then
I guess this is why there’s no “close all” button. It would be better if they outright said you don’t need to close all the apps.
Jailbroken users laugh behind your back 🤣
@@boxii2065 Why do they laugh? Do they like the cons of manually closing them or did you just not watch the video?
@@boxii2065 Lol, but as we’ve just found out you apparently shouldn’t do that anyways. 🤷♂️
If you go and read the page about iOS on Apple's website, it clearly mentions that it is recommended to not close your apps at all unless it's malfunctioning or something.
@@hunterjay8331 Jailbroken phone users prob have a bigger need to close out all the apps, as RAM management may work differently or require more app closing. You can do all kinds of RAM intensive things.
Here is why I never close them:
• Apple makes intuitive things and is not intuitive to be closing them all the time.
• If closing them were recommended, a "close all" would be available.
A verified comment with no likes? I’m lucky
That Close all makes a bit of sense, you know
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I was gonna like but I don't want to break the 420
I mean it is on som android versions
It's all about ram usage. Background apps use ram. If you plan on going back an forth between apps, then yeah, keep them open in the background. But if you don't plan on going back to the app any time soon, close it because it will just use ram. Also, the swipe up menu isn't just for closing apps that aren't responding. I think the primary reason for it is to easily multitask between multiple open apps. But if you don't plan on using said open apps, then I think it makes the most sense to close them and free up that ram space.
RAM doesn’t need to be the emptiest possible all the time. In fact it’s much better if it’s being used and it accelerates the system
This is bull… I’m a former Apple employee working in Apple Retail, and as a workshop host & trainer, we were trained in our sessions to teach customers to do just that. Crucially, in real-world experience, many times running into performance issues lagging the workflow of a certain app or general workflows in iOS in general, after having closed all the apps, it begins functioning normally. This goes the same for shutting down your phone at very LEAST once a week.
THIS is so true. Apple devices and apps use a lot of caching to RAM. even when the App is in a suspended state. AND a ton of apps don't do well coming out of a suspended state when you have other stuff open.
How long should a phone be shut off?
@@zephyrias it doesn’t take long; at least only a few seconds FULLY shut down.
I shot down mine every night, is it bad for the battery or the phone in general?
@@callmecide shutting down every night is totally fine for the battery. That’s actually a good practice. It’s a “minimum” to shut down once a week.
I won’t lie. I’ve always know this since the iPhone 6. Thing is it is just wildly satisfying to “declutter” your space. A very satisfying endeavor. I’ve not been closing apps but still the thought hunts me up to this minute.
Yep they tell you not to do that but I don’t like seeing all those apps open either
@@mssha1980same
This makes sense. However, I sometimes find all the open background apps too cluttered if I'm switching between apps with a purpose. Sometimes I'll close the extras out so they don't slow me down from getting back to the app I actually need. :)
Backgrounding consumes memory, when u reach the max allotted memory iPhone automatically starts closing apps running in the background. Sometimes ones u don’t want to b closed. So whilst closing apps may not boost performance it does help with maintaining backgrounding on the specific apps u need
Fascinating and helpful video. So many things in life are based on past experience. With things moving on so quickly in the IT world it is necessary to partake in lifelong learning to manage ones devices.
me closing all my apps while watching this... 😲
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U have UA-cam premium?
@@sardorprog2796 or he has an Android
@@mohammedelidrissi UA-cam doesn't run in the background on Android, unless you have YT Premium.
@@kirakira9906 android vanced
I really love this style of video, quick, easy to understand, and strait to the point. Great video, like always!
Ikr
Fr like he’s not to extra like some other people he just gets straight to the point
Yes, great video
I see that you have straightened his spelling without straiting his spelling.
yes he doesnt take 10mins.
I was hoping you'd at least mention that background app refresh uses up a small amount of data and battery life (probably so minuscule you wouldn't even notice it), but you can turn on/off which apps have background refresh on in the settings app
Background app refresh actually uses TONS of battery which this guy forgot to mention. If people turn this off, it will solve most of these problems
This is so true! I've noticed that this is a feature. The battery life and the performance speed is more likely better when the phone is standby on and the apps.
If you use apps that require location services, closing them will significantly increase battery life
Or you could tell those apps to only use Location services when app is open.
@Dislike Button When the app is in the background it is no longer "open" but perhaps I should've used "active" cause thats the more correct term.
@@fuckinzell the app is running tho. it would still be using location services
@@fuckinzell technically it's "onPause" when you exit the app. It's waiting and listening for when you return then it "onResumed". If you swipe up force closed it it's destroyed
We all know we shouldn’t, but Apple Explained comes along to actually explain to us why.
Who’s we?
@@yungtwizzler 😂😂
@@yungtwizzler us
Don't show that you are an experienced player🖕🤣🤣
it's become a habit now I can't stop
Thank you! As an obsessive OCD-like app-closer, because I would believe it was pointless to leave apps open that I was no longer using, I will never close out an app unnecessarily ever again if it's messing up my iPhone and iPad. No more! Glad I saw this video.
I know, when i dont close apps, it just feels out of place.
@@tres-2b299same
Lol literally for the first time UA-cam froze because while I was writing my comment the next video on Watch Later playlist started playing and I guess because the comment should’ve been for the previous one, it glitched out, so yes, having the ability to force-close an app came in handy. Funny little coincidence.
Anyhow..as I was saying..
Happy I found this channel, awesome content man, keep it up! Thanks.
I just like to keep my phone clean. I switch between apps very frequently sometimes and having 50 apps cluttering the 5 I'm actually using is annoying. Dual screen mode would DEFINITELY help with this habit for me, not having to de-clutter to compare things like prices between store apps or whatever.
While I am sure a lot of this is true it is also true that those background apps can interfere with other apps. I have often found that if safari is having trouble or some app with high memory usage is having trouble closing apps will actually free up the memory to actually allow the apps to run smoothly. Also closing the app doesn't necessarily delete the state. properly written apps will dump the memory into the storage clearing up valuable memory while allowing you to reinitialize the app fairly quickly since it has a snapshot of the ram state for that application.
True
True
So is this what takes space in other System Data in iphone? It cannot be cleared…
It's mind-blowing that all these years later that we can't close all apps at once as we can with Android.
Sometimes we end up with quite a few open apps that we will not ever use again.
That is because every single aspect of an iphone is designed with short term replacement in mind. They WANT you to run your battery to 75% overall capacity in 2 years so that you get a new iphone. It's planned obsolescence and it is embodied in every single design aspect and marketing aspect of iphones. Apple WANTS you to break the glass, get your phone water damaged, run your battery down AS FAST AS POSSIBLE, so they can sell you a new phone.
It’s intentionally hard so you don’t kill apps and let the OS handle their suspended state as it should
@@TheNade That's actually closer to what many Android phone manufacturers want (such as Samsung), although it's typically on the software side instead of the hardware side (not giving more than one major update, inserting ads for newer phones, etc.) because unlike Apple, they don't get much money from the phone once it has been sold. Apple on the other hand wants you to keep using iPhones so that they can keep getting money from Apple Music, the App Store, in-app purchases, Apple TV, Apple News, etc.
Excellent video, very clear and correct explanation provided 👍🏻
When multitasking.
I like the apps I am using to be in the task switcher. Not every app I’ve ever used before.
So I clear them often to open apps that I use together and allow myself to hop back and forth to get work done faster without sorting through the last 30 something apps. There’s only the 5 I will use right then and there.
Even if I switch to Apple, I still would close them. It gets to clustered for me after a while when switching them. Especially from the looks of the example phone in the video. This cluster of apps drives me crazy.
well, closing an app is always optional. Apple mentioned this on their website btw
When I switched to Samsung I instantly made my app switcher like the one in ios so my muscle memory could continue closing apps when I'm done. I will continue doing it forever
I always closed them on windows phone for 6 years I can't stop doing it now
Same. Just look at that mess of a phone in the video. Yeah! I don’t like the look of it
Best apple channel. Love the animations
I thank you very much for these informations!
Oh that's why there's no close all! This is so good to know, A+ content as always
This video is wrong and totally subjective. The apps are most likely meant to be closed. The functional benefit of closing apps yourself is that you can multitask without having a ton of bloat when switching between apps. Don't hoard apps, close them if you don't need them so they aren't in the way. Imagine you're trying to type out something from Notes on UA-cam and you have Instagram and Snapchat in between the two apps and you can't just quickly swipe between the two apps, it's extremely annoying. On top of that, a lot of apps actually do reduce performance and consume your battery, especially apps that use location services.
@@mitostv3836 it is proven that those apps that uses location in the background does not affect much the Battery
I always manually close apps and I always will. Makes multi-tasking easier and apps don’t have to refresh as much.
The video is just way too clean 😍💛
Since 2 weeks i am using a borrowed iPhone to teste various speculation this channel made. I tested iphone with all the app running and also tested all app closed. Repeated the test twice, once in 4g, once in wifi. And since last 2 days using this phone in airplane mode to test standby. And I found closing all app extends the battery by 30 min in 4g mode. 1 hour in wifi mode. In airplane mode, closing all app and using screen time for total 15 min extended standby time by 6 hours then running all the apps.
As an Apple employee. THANK YOU SO MUCH. OH MY LORD
then tell your mates in the ipad department that they should either upgrade the low spec models with more ram, or optimize this standby feature
Do u see a bunch of iPad that small kids played on with like 69000 app open?
@@potatomaster8291 a few office apps like office, files and powerpoint are enough to overwhelm the standard ipads and make them lag, you dont need a lot to fill their little amount of ram
I'm not even an Apple employee, developer or whatever and I'm grateful as well. It's so annoying when people do this or are yelling at Apple for not adding an "close all apps" button.
@@Raja995mh33 they need a close all app. Leaving apps open definitely drains ur battery. There is proof all over UA-cam and apple forums
my old iphone 6: am i a joke to you
Bro same
I love how short and to the point this video is. Thank you!
i actually learned a lot from this thank you
Actuallyyyyy it can help your phone’s performance. While the iPhone is designed to suspend apps, your phone only has so much RAM, and suspending multiple RAM-intensive applications (streaming apps mostly) can mean that RAM won’t be as available for apps that you’re currently using.
Many times, yeah you won’t need to close out apps. Especially a notes or contacts app. But closing out UA-cam, Netflix, Spotify, and Maps running in the background can speed up your phone and make things work more smoothly. I’m not saying it always does, but it can. Apple wants to be the superior phone and they will tell you this isn’t the case, but that’s just simply not true. They can’t get around how computers work. They’re not above RAM limitations.
It’s not something you need to obsessively worry about, but the next time you’re finding lag on your phone, close out these apps and see if it makes a difference because it really might!
When RAM runs out the operating system closes apps automatically. This is true for both iOS and Android. So there’s actually no benefit in closing all apps. Because not all of them remain suspended.
@@TiagoAzevedo When it runs out, sure. But when the apps are sharing RAM, some can run slower to keep all of them running. Just not at full efficiency. This is why closing intensive applications can make things run more smoothly at times. Can also increase your chances of keeping your place in an app. For instance, going back to an application and it still having the message you were typing or the photo you had loaded up to post.
Can previous apps be temporarily stored on the internal drive, considering how fast apples ssd are?
@@apachezenmy3614 no SSD is as fast as RAM
So true. Plus there is so many poorly coded not optimized apps. IE FACEBOOK…… PEOPLE TRUST ME CLOSE THEM ALL OUT ..
Drives me nuts when I see people doing this. Apple should just show a one time alert: "Force closing too many apps may shorten battery life and slow down your iPhone. Please try to only close apps that are not behaving correctly."
It's mentioned on the iOS page on their website
@@Tom_Stevens617 no1 reads them
@@andyjiang9307 I did. If you didn't, that's not Apple's fault, is it?
@@Tom_Stevens617 bro im saying no1 reads them except for us, y u mad
@@andyjiang9307 Huh? I'm not mad lol
The only time I close all apps is when I get off my iPhone for the night. I thought everyone kind of knew having a few apps in the background wouldn't be extremely detrimental to battery life, but acting as if leaving every single app open is always a better alternative makes no sense either. I tend to keep 3 to 5 apps open in the back ground at a time because I like having what I'm likely to switch between readily available. Keeping apps I don't intend to open for the rest of the day or that are constantly refreshing in the background trying to use location services however seems more problematic and waiting an extra 5 seconds when trying to open mail, that I would have preferred using on my laptop anyway if I weren't in a remote location expecting an important email.
I didn’t knew this, thank you very much.
the reason I remove apps from recently used is that I want the them to be the ones I'm switching back and forth between, and not contain apps that I used 3 days ago.
and not because I used to believe that it saves resources.
He’s the perfect example of just sounding really smart and confident even when he doesn’t know the correct answer. 🤷🏿♂️
yeah and apple needs to work on their app optimisation and add some sort of ai that doesn't close or update an app just because I went to another app. I can't count how many times I've gone to read a message or somethingand youtube closed.
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@@nonsudunk He means that Apple Explained sounds like he knows his stuff, when in fact he oftenly only reads Apples Marketing Mumbo Jumbo out loud.
And before you ask, I am using Apple products regularly.
@@HoJSimpson But that's the answer, what else you want him to say
@@nonsudunk that the answer is In fact just not right. It's what apples says. Real world experience of users and App Developers state different experiences. Is iOS better optimized?
Yes. But it sometimes shuts apps down I want to run for the benefit of apps I don't want. Because as soon as that RAM is full, the system seems to have problems to decide which app to kill.
And you can notice that many apps are running in the background.
And that is what I don't like about this video.
There are real world cases in which it is beneficial to kill apps manually. And I'd love to hear that in such a video.
I remember the days flipping between multiple apps which have been recently opened was a jail break tweak. It was also a standard feature on android.
It’s not only about battery, when I close iPhone tabs I mainly do that in order to speed up my mobile phone because at that point my memory is completely taken by secondary stand by applications while my current window has to retrieve information stored within the second storage device thus making it a lot slower to load it up.
Haven’t watched it yet but I already know it’s gonna be good!
After so many days and nights..
You are back Greg !! 🤦♂️🤩
I only keep the apps I use often not closed. Every other app I clean up in the app switcher multi view and close them when I’m not using them.
didn't know that, you learn something new everyday
To be fair system management doesn't always do the best job at managing system resources, sometimes I found it'll actually let apps eat up your memory and it makes other apps slower
Also some people just want a clean state every time they open up an app, maybe its for privacy or maybe its for something else but for example, somebody browsing something "Questionable" On the reddit app would probably want to close out of the app when they're done using it that way if they decide to open it back up in front of somebody else they don't get that material they were looking at earlier blasted on screen
Some people want just want a clean session so the task window isn't cluttered with 38 apps because I'm sure that makes switching between apps a lot harder
Some apps that utilize the "Now Playing" Feature have to be manually closed to get rid of the music widget on the Lock Screen/Notification Center
Basically there are several more reasons somebody would want to fully close their apps apart from battery and performance
Thank you
Tumblr used always be the app that wouldn’t load for me from time to time and force closing apps was the only way to get it to load. So I think with some apps force closing multiple apps is necessary.
@@seymourbaldauf8212 most of my apps aren’t that heavy weight but some apps are poorly optimized and become a memory hog
Games are probably the biggest resource hogs actually so you pretty much gotta close those when your done playing or your device feels slower until the system closes them for you
Yea, thank you for justifying! I was beginning to doubt myself 😅 lol
I don‘t close apps to improve battery life. I do it to keep my app switcher neatly organized, so I can quickly switch between apps I have opened for my current „session“.
But the most recent apps are always at the top
Thanks for this, good to know
I don't do it often, normally when apps are playing up or if I just want a fresh start, the reality is the 'more power' its uses probably wouldn't be noticed by most users unless they are having battery issues already.
Based on knowledge from the video: WE SHOULD OPEN ALL APPS AND KEEP THEM ON STANDBY.
😂😂🤣
Me: closes everything possible
My dad: keeps everything on
Also my dad: big brain time
This video kinda made me analyze how frequently I close out of apps and I noticed that I close out of apps like Facebook, Google, or food reward apps like it’s second nature. Id say it’s a bigger ease on my mind closing out of these data hungry apps than allowing them to be suspended on my phone
It’s not just for frozen apps. It’s also for organising and faster multitasking so you can leave what you really need in your preferred order
I want to open the app on the homepage, but if I don’t close the app, it will start from the last stop position. Re-opening the App is a faster way to homepage, since iPhone does Not have the same convenient "return button" as Android.
Exactly
You are just using more power and wasting more time just to go to the home page instead of tapping whichever button on that app that lets you go to the home page.
@@abhirammadhu2973 In fact, it is not so simple. Some is due to the design of the iPhone, some due to the design of the app. There are many methods of returns and closing due to app design. The sensitivity of sliding to return and closing is also different in different apps. I sometimes need to slide up to the very top. It is also maybe in different sub categories and sections, which requires another click. For me, closing the app can grantee that it will be on home page when I reopen it next time.
@@abhirammadhu2973 no ur not quit spreading bullshit. As a computer engineer you really are very wrong
I do understand that that is the theory behind iOS, but there have been times when an app I’m using doesn’t work quite right until I close out the other apps. The app I’m using sometimes won’t respond or is slow to respond but after closing other apps it works fine.
This would fall under ram usage I'd say, other apps on standby are holding onto to much memory.
@@willcra yeah that’s what I was thinking. So closing them does help in that case.
I swipe away all apps when I’m completely changing what I’m doing such as going to work. I know it doesn’t help anything, but it helps me.
Good info 👍 thanks for sharing 🥰
Is also just faster than having to swipe through a million open apps all the time. I do accidentally end up closing Spotify while I’m listening to it which is annoying so maybe I’ll try to stop 😅
I’ll keep closing them, its easier to switch from apps you are using in the moment when no more than 5 are running at the same time.
What I love about this channel is that it isn't making 15 minutes videos to explain something that can be explained in 2 minutes
Nice to know. I leave 50 apps open for months on end. Always wondered.
sorry but it really just bothers me seeing a kid who has over 50+ apps open when I swipe
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Ikr
If you’re multitasking, then this is not for you as it would fill up your RAM and will close apps which are to be used along the current apps…
You mean, the feature to retain apps in the background is not for you if you’re multitasking? I don’t get what you mean. I’m multitasking and the apps were not closed when I switched between them.
@@ChenLiYong I just want to say that if you have an iPhone with less RAM to accommodate all your apps then it would start refreshing even if you want to use them. Keeping all apps open would lead to usage of all your RAM and thus all heavy apps would restart. (iPhone 12 pros are exceptions because of 6GB of RAM)
No, when you are multitasking you open the apps which need to be used so they are accommodated into ram and apps opened before are removed from ram if it is full so your logic is wrong
@@unmaypawar try opening camera and a heavy photo editing app and when you’re editing, in the middle of the process, open the camera app again keeping all the other apps open in the background. You’ll understand what I mean. 👍
@@devarshdave then try multitasking using lighter apps. This doesn’t mean the multitasking doesn’t work. It works but under certain condition, and from what I tried, the condition are pretty relaxing. When I do try to multitask, none of the apps are closing so far. And you can cheat some of the multitasking by doing screenshots if necessary, so you’re switching between less heavy apps if what you need is just information. This is situational. But multitasking indeed works.
There are some circumstances where you might want to; some apps take over your audio. So if it had watched a video on Facebook, and then later you are listening to music with the Music app, opening Facebook again with pause your audio. So just force quit it and next time it won’t do that. In the past it was found that the poorly written code FB uses kept that audio stream open even though you weren’t playing audio from the app, which ran down your battery. So I quit out of certain apps for that reason.
Another one is UA-cam if I’ve transferred a video to my Roku. The app will continue to think it’s connected.
Also having too many apps open (even if they aren’t active) makes using the App Switcher a pain… you endlessly scroll though apps.
I have had games crash more often when I have more apps open, due to not having enough memory. Some apps also do drain a good deal of battery even in the background.
But what if you're not going to use the app again for a long time?
Just keep them all open forever?
I only close my apps at the end of the day when I’m going to bed and putting my phone to charge.
Thanks for the tip! Take my like!
Remembering my old iPhone 4S with iOS 5 had multitasking feature hidden in double clicking home button. It took me half of iPhone's lifetime to discover that multitasking feature was included in iOS 5. Apple actually shown multitasking feature existence clearly in iOS7 and later.
And for those that have smartphones with less than 2GB of RAM? I thought that was the main consideration in this utility instance
I never do that and I’ve been always confused why people are completely closing every app each time.
I usually realize after like a month that I have millions of apps “open” 😂
🤢 I'm sorry but that is gross to hear
Didn‘t know that‘s such a big thing for people here closing their apps in the App Switcher. I never do this. I have 200 apps or so open from the beginning since I bought an iPhone. I can confirm that there is no performance impact because of the exactly described behavior. There is nothing to worry. I only use the App Switcher for closing a specific app and have all my necessary apps organized on the Home screen.
Thanks for teaching me how to close a frozen app.
craig federighi said himself that he doesn't do it, for this reason
when did he say?
Yes when did he say that???
@@johnwick7611 twitter
He did say that but he also has a ton of money and gets free phones so I doubt that he has to worry about whether or not force closing apps actually saves battery or not
@@jw1629 ...
The real life experience kind of says the opposite. When closing the 50 open apps on my mothers phone it suddenly goes from running slow to being like a new phone. I don’t think the app/memory management is as good as made out
This!!! . It’s a false narrative that closing apps in background doesn’t do any good, I am just disappointed in a techie guy like that spreading misinformation to the public
Agree
Agreed! When I’m playing a game and many apps are open in the background, if I switch to iMessage or something to answer a text, I go back to the game and it resets as if I fully closed it. If I only have the game open and a few apps in the background, my game doesn’t reset if I toggle between it and another app.
i usually only leave the 2-3 apps i use the most. So that i can switch between them quickly by swiping right or left on the bottom bit. Except if im currently uploading data, i will close other apps for simplicity
Thank you for this
Sounds good in theory, but how is it in practice? Can you run a test on some iPhones to see if what you say in theory is true in practice? (I am talking about battery consumption differences)
I’m a mobile developer and it still partially falls on the app developer to optimize their app. There are still a number of apps that will kill the battery if moved to the background and not fully closed.
I probably missed it but does this go for every app? Or just ones exclusive for Apple?
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Every one
Well I agree that it will be slower to have to fully refresh every app when you re-open them but at the same time even if they are on "standby" it is not the same as turning your device off and on battery wise. Devices by default have background refresh on and ultimately using your phone they will still be running in the background and yes it will impact your battery life. Even if not SIGNIFICANTLY, it will affect it and with a more degrade battery in an older phone it will begin to become more noticeable.
Disable background refresh. Never used it, never had to, works great, good battery life :)
When I have a lot of recently used app the more recent ones I’m switching between tend to refresh itself which is annoying when I switch between. That’s how I realize I have a lot of recent app and I go to close the non recent ones.
your argument goes for apps that are regularly used, but the ones you need like once a week should be closed after using.
Well, even then, the OS will realise that you simply haven't used the app in a while and shut it down in the background. The OS is designed to remove application management from the user, and will handle it all. This includes shutting down apps when not used.
Yes. Open an app from the switcher, that you havenˋt used in a while (even some hours). It relaunches as if it was closed.. 👍🏼
@@arrowtlg2646 that’s just to declutter the screen. I can’t stand seeing all the apps accumulate in that menu, even if they don’t affect anything. I just like it cleaner without unnecessary extras
Think of multitasking. When you’re doing something with multiple apps, you won’t want to get other apps. For example- while mailing a document, you won’t want to get distracted by your social media, but you still need two or more apps to work. In this case, just remove the apps.
Edit- Anyway, I’ll keep closing all the apps before going to bed. It gives us another level of satisfaction, just like refreshing in Windows.
Indian?
Well explained 👍
i‘ve stopped doing this about 1,5 years ago and it definitely saved my phone from being too shitty now. I always panick when people start swiping my apps up and tell em that it fucks up the battery
Well, I think there is a small benefit. When you close an app it doesn’t save where you were right? So it restarts, and when the app is glitchy you can close the app and then you have a refreshed app. Personally works for me.
I used to get upset that ios didn't have a "close all apps" feature but now I know why.
Yeah but it still sucks though because sometimes you do need/want to close all of them
I live in a rural area with really slow service. Sometimes if I'm trying to load youtube but it just will not work, I end up closing apps like Instagram, snapchat, or any VPN apps that are using cellular data in the background. So, for me closing apps is necessary in order to even use my phone.
As a developer keeping apps open has to consume some kind of memory (usually ram or in some cases disk drives) thus not all that is said in this video can be true. Some parts can be true but first of all, not all apps are optimized to be run in the background and the second matter is you are using hardware to calculate the current state of the app if you keep it on standby. So maybe leaving them running wouldn't harm your device but closing them doesn't for sure.
So my little brother is either a genius and already knew this, or he could just be lazy.
I find that my phone is slower when a ton of apps are open at once. Especially on safari
Yep. Exactly.
Yeah no kidding this is a bullshit video keep continuing to close your apps
@@walterwhite1 see exactly. Especially sh!t fu!k Facebook which jams ass up my phone completely to the point of restarting.
@@mrmaramind exactamundo
Yea you are right but like you said its the ram that is getting freed up. Thats for example why I close my apps on my iphone all the time
I'm a software engineer but never considered this. It makes sense that the apps would maintain state while on standby. Therefore, if you close and return to the application, the state would have to mount and then be set again based on your selections, actions, etc.