General Do you close your apps on your iDevice?

[dmelgar]

Yes, constantly. And I find my dad and brother complaining about how slow Netflix is running, and so I always have to help them clear out their multitask.

Having 5 apps open in the background is fine, but then when you have 50 apps paused, and they're all games, that becomes an issue.

Wrong

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Only if an app locks up completely or has some network issue and won't refresh information. Other than that, there's no need.

True

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iPhone 4, yes. iPhone 5, no.

No difference. It's iOS. Not based on phone model.

 

[adam044]

Yes, constantly. And I find my dad and brother complaining about how slow Netflix is running, and so I always have to help them clear out their multitask.

Having 5 apps open in the background is fine, but then when you have 50 apps paused, and they're all games, that becomes an issue.

No actually it doesn't

 

[bushido]

i always close them immediately, its my OCD i cant sleep knowing theres an app open in the tray lol

 

[CTHarrryH]

I close facebook after I log off of it. I don't trust facebook and their vision of the world to not, on their own, to decide to integrate with something else on my phone even though I haven't given them permission to do anything. I only log on to Facebook maybe once a week so it doesn't make much of a difference.

I also close out my bank's application after I log out but not sure why.

 

[paulsalter]

Yes, otherwise after a while my iPod starts getting very slow and apps crash

 

[Akarin]

Yes, otherwise after a while my iPod starts getting very slow and apps crash

That's the thing. Like everybody, I read some 'experts' views on why it doesn't matter if you completely kill apps or not but the fact is I DO notice a change in battery power consumption and apps performances when apps are terminated or not.

I guess that until an Apple iOS developer explains concretely how it works from a memory management standpoint, I will be continuing to kill my apps when I don't use them.

 

[tymaster50]

when I just want to close it I do but ordinarily I don't. Not like it matters, on the 5 apps open near instant anyway.

 

[Eckscaliber]

I terminate my apps on my iPad & iPhone about 10 times each per day. I like restarting the apps new, and freeing up the RAM. If an app of any kind is not running smoothly, I kill them all.

 

[VulchR]

To me it's a privacy thing - I don't want colleagues at work seeing that I play silly games like 'Words with Friends'.... (For the record - I don't play any games at work, but I do at home).

 

[lexvo]

Only if an app locks up completely or has some network issue and won't refresh information.

Yes, sometimes I need to kill other apps to get Pages to synchronize to iCloud.

 

[Gutwrench]

I do on the iPad if the idle apps get in my way to swipe left or right when chg'ing apps.

Otherwise I do sometimes end them all for no others reason than to satisfy my OCD.

 

[Kavier]

I am so OCD that I have to do this everyday if not multiple times a day

 

[Poonz]

If ever I feel its running slow then it's the first thing I do. Usually i forgot and can't believe how many are open as I close each one at a time.

 

[haulis]

No, it's pointless most of the time.

 

[TedM]

I typically don't unless I am done with the program.

 

[mrgraff]

I do on the iPad if the idle apps get in my way to swipe left or right when chg'ing apps.

Same here. I appreciate the convenience of opening apps from the tray, but I would love the ability to rearrange them down there too.

 

[Radeon85]

I never close apps unless they crash/freeze. The only apps I do close manually is the sat nav apps such has TomTom, Copilot and iGO as they will run in the background and will use battery life quickly.

Doing so on iOS is a pointless waste of time.

 

[ReValveiT]

Some Apps... Like GPS Apps (TomTom) that run in the background and eat battery.

Otherwise, not unless there's some kind of glitch that requires a reboot.

Most Apps do not require closing.

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I never close apps unless they crash/freeze. The only apps I do close manually is the sat nav apps such has TomTom, Copilot and iGO as they will run in the background and will use battery life quickly.

Doing so on iOS is a pointless waste of time.

Ah! I never saw your reply yet mine is almost identical!

Creepy!

 

[xraydoc]

I've never needed to do it unless an app is misbehaving.

 

[big samm]

I always do i don't know why but i do...

 

[shawnwich]

i do, only because ive noticed other apps become MUCH FASTER if 30 other apps aren't open

 

[C DM]

These days one of the ways to get the AppStore to check for updates (once you've opened it before) is to "kill" it and open it again. Not sure why Apple changed that (perhaps to decrease the number of update checks people do), but seems like there's a "need to kill" that exists for that app at least.

 

[surfer17]

Only after a point that apps start crashing on me.

Although the last time this happened and I checked the number of apps open in the background, I had 107 apps open.

iOS has very good memory management from my understanding. Which keeps the amount of base memory required in an iDevice low. My understanding extends to the fact the iOS apps aren't running in the background like how they are on an Android device like the Galaxy S3. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Would love to know the correct functionality.

 

[Ntombi]

Never, unless it's misbehaving.