Stop swiping up to kill your iPhone apps

<div class="separator" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; clear: both;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjop0DbJOXfwYPSiH6dU55yghjueC6R-y1cDUHFuyvRL5Fi60C5JmmvwHpY59cPNksNr8XhHJMAxzR_LXeOquzJexbrm1joeNq6yRP1FCr8mE1Go8tQj41-U1T4a2ss6J8B10TTd1oqXipJ/s640/blogger-image-1226547025.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; height: auto;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many people with an iPhone (and that’s a lot of people) have the wrong idea about closing apps. And once you know why, it might change the way that you use your iPhone completely.</span></div><h2 style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; position: relative; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">iPhone apps don’t need to be ‘killed’</span></span></h2><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All the time, I listen to people say that they close their iPhone apps when not in use with an upwards swipe in the app switcher (you know, the list of apps that appears if you double-tap the home button).</span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These people close their apps completely (rather than just exiting back to the home screen) in order to remove the app and stop it running, hopefully improving battery life in the process – as the phone has less to do, right?</span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That all sounds great, except that pretty much none of those apps that you’ve been swiping up on are actually open. They’re just images of apps that you have opened up before. You can think of it just like a list of graphical bookmarks for moving between apps.</span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">iOS, which is the mobile operating system that runs on iPhones and iPads, is intelligent enough to kill the open apps on its own, and it always has been.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That doesn’t mean that there aren’t occasions when you should manually close an app, but generally there’s no need to force an app to close unless it’s unresponsive, says Apple.</span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin: 20px 0px 30px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQt3iYoCtuVIOfFf9KCdBdb261IFIQF2PQzbRgGO1Gf6xazgshAYlNX49LRgQ30gaa__hUqQ92XmJLXH5f44PS7L60-hlzR3NJJ3eQJUSeInYo9MXr2pDHEKc_6FXh_uOr2coce9CI8IW/s50/quote.png); background-attachment: scroll; min-height: 60px; text-align: center; background-position: 0% 18px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></i></div><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Some apps will run for a short period of time before they’re set to a suspended state”, Apple’s documentation states. “This means they’re not actively in use, open, or taking up system resources. When you return to these apps, they’ll open instantly”.</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In fact, here’s a great article from Lifehacker that explains why manually killing apps may make your battery life worse:</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin: 20px 0px 30px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 60px; border: 0px; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; quotes: none; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQt3iYoCtuVIOfFf9KCdBdb261IFIQF2PQzbRgGO1Gf6xazgshAYlNX49LRgQ30gaa__hUqQ92XmJLXH5f44PS7L60-hlzR3NJJ3eQJUSeInYo9MXr2pDHEKc_6FXh_uOr2coce9CI8IW/s50/quote.png); background-attachment: scroll; min-height: 60px; text-align: center; background-position: 0% 18px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;"><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></i></div><div style="text-align: start;"><i style="font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By closing the app, you take the app out of the phone’s RAM. While you think this may be what you want to do, it’s not. When you open that same app again the next time you need it, your device has to load it back into memory all over again. All of that loading and unloading puts more stress on your device than just leaving it alone. Plus, iOS closes apps automatically as it needs more memory, so you’re doing something your device is already doing for you. You are meant to be the user of your device, not the janitor.</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So next time you’re tempted to close all your ‘open’ iPhone apps, just don’t…</span></div></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So unless you have OCD and just can't sleep at night without clearing out all of your apps, there's no need to constantly swipe up.</span></div><div style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1.857em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">-TodayBurn/BI</span></div>

Stop swiping up to kill your iPhone apps

Many people with an iPhone (and that’s a lot of people) have the wrong idea about closing apps. And once you know why, it might change the way that you use your iPhone completely.iPhone apps don’t nee…

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