Being able to find and close open applications on iPhone, iPad, iPod in iOS 7 is a necessary function for every day. Today we will talk about it in detail for those who are encountering Apple mobile devices for the first time.

How to see running applications in iOS 7?

Regardless of what kind of Apple gadget you have, take it in your hands and repeat:

• On the unlocked screen of the device, quickly press the round Home button twice.
• Now you have before your eyes a panel of currently running (open) programs.

What can you do with running programs?

• You can conveniently and quickly find and launch an open program, scroll right or left, and click on the required icon.
• You can close programs you are not using. We find a window with an application icon that we don’t need, and close it by moving up. It's like you're throwing the program out of the device.

Why close apps on iPhone?

They say that the fewer open applications, the more free memory. Accordingly, everything will work faster, and the battery will last longer. Stay with.

We've known for a long time that if you constantly close applications, the iPhone's performance will not improve, and on the contrary, the battery will be consumed faster. Apple is clearly trying to get users to do this less often. So the company changed the force-close app gesture on the iPhone X, making the process more difficult.

However, there are still times when an application needs to be closed if it freezes or performs poorly. In such cases, follow the steps below.

Step 1: Swipe up and hold your finger on the screen

First, you need to open the app switcher. To do this on the iPhone X, you need to swipe up from the bar at the bottom of the screen and stop when the animation appears. Afterwards, you can release your finger and all application cards will open.

Step2: Swipepreview up

Swipe up on an app card to close the app.

If you want to close multiple apps at once, use three fingers at the same time to swipe up on the apps you want to close.

To exit the app switcher, tap the empty space at the bottom of the screen.

If you don't understand anything, the whole process is shown in the video below.

After you launch apps for the first time and when you exit them, iOS automatically pauses them to save battery power. After they are reopened, the system simply unpauses them.

But some programs - especially Facebook, Pokemon and heavy media applications - do not always work reliably. If you encounter the problem of the application freezing or not working correctly, you need to restart it.

In the past, I was a proponent of force closing all unused applications. But now I recommend closing them only if it is glitchy or hanging, since launching an application for the first time consumes much more energy and time than launching it from a paused state.

How to close apps on iPhone

If you suspect that an app such as Facebook, Pokémon Go, or Skype is consuming an excessive amount of power, you can go into your settings and check your suspicions.

• How to find out which apps are eating up energy and cellular data on your iPhone

How to close three apps at once on iPhone

You probably won't close more than one app often, as this will inevitably reduce performance and battery life since the first launch uses more power. But if you can't find the source of slowdown or rapid battery drain, you can use the close gesture for up to three applications at once.

How to Close All Apps Without Entering the Application Manager on iPhone or iPad

If for some reason you don't want to use the Application Manager app interface to close one of the programs, you can close it the old-fashioned way: By holding down the Power and Home buttons.

These are two different ways to close apps on iPhone and iPad, but the results are the same.

Questions?

Do you have any questions about how to close an app on your iPhone or iPad? Ask them in the comments.

One of the key features of iOS 4 firmware, unlike its older versions, is multitasking. It is because of this feature that Apple's smartphone software has received the status of a mobile operating system.

Before the advent of the already well-known “four,” the technical capabilities of the first generations of iPhone and iPod made it possible to work with one application, and pressing the HOME button led to the termination of the application with the loss of unsaved data. Of course, it was possible to answer an incoming call or close the window of a received SMS while using a program or game, without ending the application, but this is not enough for the modern user.

Multitasking in iOS 4 on iPhone 5, 3GS allows you to work with several programs and games, switching from one to another without completing any of them. Now, when we press the HOME button and exit any application, we, as usual, will see the desktop of our i-device, but the program will be minimized (frozen) in the form in which we left everything, and will wait for better times. As for VoIP applications such as, they will continue to receive messages even on a locked device.

To call the Multitasking panel, you need to press the HOME button twice in a row. In the menu that appears at the bottom of the screen, icons of already running applications will wait their turn, which can be opened by clicking to continue working, or completely terminated.

To end (close) a program or game, you need to hold down any icon for about two seconds until all the icons begin to vibrate and red circles appear on them, similar to the Brick road sign. Clicking on the circle on the icon in the Multitasking panel will terminate the process with the loss of unsaved data.

To close the panel and return to the desktop, use the HOME button. Regular cleaning of the multitasking menu will have a positive effect on the performance of the device as a whole, since any application, and especially heavy HD 3D games, will eat up a little RAM, the lack of which in turn leads to slowdown of the entire iOS.

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Press and hold your finger on an app icon until it wiggles and you can tap the red minus icon to close one or more of those background apps. If a specific application is not running, this action will simply remove the entry from the multitasking bar.

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How to close all background applications at once

If you want to close all apps running in the background at once, the Process Killer app for iPhone and iPad can help you. You don't even have to jailbreak.

Launch the app and then shake your iPhone/iPad to stop any programs that may be running in the background. In addition, you can simply hold and release your finger on the list of processes to close all applications running in the background at once.

Close problematic applications

Typically, users always have applications, especially games, that stop responding (freezing) and force quitting is the only way to get them working again. The Process Killer application mentioned above can be useful in such a situation, in case you don't need to worry about applications suspended in the background.

Do I need to close background applications manually?

If you're using Windows or Mac, you can always close applications you're not using to free up more memory (RAM) that becomes available for running applications. However, many people don't see any performance improvement by closing background iOS apps.

Here's an excerpt from Engadget's Q&A with Steve Jobs:

Engadget: How to close multitasking applications?
Jobs: In multitasking mode, if you see a task manager, forget about it. Users never have to think about it.

John Gruber explains why closing background applications is not necessary:

The iOS multitasking bar is not like the app switcher tab on Mac or Windows. This is not a list of currently running applications. This is simply a list of recently used applications, whether they are running in the background or completely inactive, there is no memory consumption.

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