Swiping up on apps do not save your battery, apparently (Picture: Shutterstock / Antlii)
If you’re an iPhone user, you should probably stop closing your apps because experts say it’s ruining your device.
Tech giant Apple only recommends quitting an app in extreme circumstances – as there is apparently no battery benefit in closing the apps despite what many of us thought.
One iPhone expert said it’s not necessary to close the apps at all.
‘It is a common belief that you should close apps running in the background to improve performance and save battery life,’ said Lawrence Finch on an Apple forum.
‘Unfortunately, this is a myth that is not true in almost all situations. You should only close an app in the quick-launch screen if it is “misbehaving” – not working right, or if it is using energy (as per Settings/Battery) and you don’t need it at the present time.’
As it turns out, the carousel of apps left open is not draining your battery because the apps are not being used. The tech giant explains that they are ‘frozen’, and do not take up any extra resources from your phone as you’re using it.
Did you know swiping up on apps is the same as force quit (Picture: Getty)
Tech journalist John Gruber offered further insight on his tech blog Daring Fireball.
‘Apps in the background are effectively ‘frozen’, severely limiting what they can do in the background and freeing up the RAM they were using. iOS is really, really good at this, said Mr Gruber.
‘It is so good at this that unfreezing a frozen app takes up way less CPU (and energy) than relaunching an app that had been force quit.
‘Not only does force quitting your apps not help, it actually hurts. Your battery life will be worse and it will take much longer to switch apps if you force quit apps in the background.’
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