Q: Is there a way to close all applications with one button

No. Would be a useless app since it isn't necessary to do so.

boltedenergy wrote:

 

did anyone ever find a way to shutdown all of them without jail breaking?

As it isn't necessary, Apple has not felt the need to waste time creating the feature.

You may want to educate yourself a bit more on how iOS (and smart phones in general) work:

http://www.howtogeek.com/204552/no-closing-background-apps-on-your-iphone-or-ipa d-wont-make-it-faster/

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-popular-smartphone-myths-that-arent-true/

It may help reassure you about why what you're asking isn't necessary (and is sometimes not a good idea).

Best of luck.

i think those articles are actually perpetuating a myth that IOS is almost perfect at handling its memory management.

Please see the following straight from apple development:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Performance/Conceptual/Man agingMemory/Articles/MemoryAlloc.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20001881-SW1

Like the system applications, your applications should always handle low-memory warnings, even if they do not receive those warnings during your testing. System applications consume small amounts of memory while processing requests. When a low-memory condition is detected, the system delivers low-memory warnings to all running programs (including your application) and may terminate some background applications (if necessary) to ease memory pressure. If not enough memory is released—perhaps because your application is leaking or still consuming too much memory—the system may still terminate your application.

For memory allocated using the malloc library, it is important to free up memory as soon as you are done using it. Forgetting to free up memory can cause memory leaks, which reduces the amount of memory available to your application and impacts performance. Left unchecked, memory leaks can also put your application into a state where it cannot do anything because it cannot allocate the required memory.

Basically the bottom line is although IOS is good at handling its memory there will be apps that are coded badly which leak memory and or very memory intensive that do not play well with others. i.e. like below:

An article referencing that there is issue that closing apps, especially safari for instance is beneficial:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2014/11/ios-8-1-1-iphone-4s-and-ipad-2-a-little-fas ter-kind-of-sometimes/

so yes sometimes it IS necessary to close all the apps for a 'refresh' and btw IOS already provides this functionality with the up swipe in task manager, all I want is a one click solution!

boltedenergy wrote:

 

so yes sometimes it IS necessary to close all the apps for a 'refresh'

Yes, sometimes apps misbehave and it is necessary to force close them. But it's rare. And Apple has already included a mechanism to do that. It doesn't require any sort of mass removal of everything in Recents.

boltedenergy wrote:

 

so yes sometimes it IS necessary to close all the apps for a 'refresh' and btw IOS already provides this functionality with the up swipe in task manager, all I want is a one click solution!

Nowhere does it say close ALL apps. It says close misbehaving apps, or apps "that are coded badly". And such apps, once you have identified them, should be deleted and not used.

mmkay, let me go right ahead and delete safari!

Safari will only cause problems if you never close pages. The suggestion to close it is a way to free memory if you let pages accumulate forever, of if you have visited a toxic site that has created a page lock. I've never had to close Safari, and rarely any other app. I currently have 81 apps in the quick launch screen. I never close any, unless they have misbehaved. My battery life is great, and my iPhone responds instantly to everything I do with it.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

 

I've never had to close Safari, and rarely any other app. I currently have 81 apps in the quick launch screen. I never close any, unless they have misbehaved. My battery life is great, and my iPhone responds instantly to everything I do with it.

My experience is much the same. Every once in a while I remember to close my Safari windows.