Q: iOS 9 Default Startup Apps?

Double tapping the Home button reveals the "Recently used" apps, it does not indicate running Apps.

GreggMack54 wrote:

 

Stedman1, thank you for your quick response. I just tried an experiment to test your suggestion.

 

I fist double-tapped the Home Button and flicked off the Settings, Reminders, Mail, Facebook, and Twitter screens. I then opened up 5 completely different apps. Double-tapping the Home Button shows those 5 apps screens - and I flicked them all off. I then restarted my iPhone as described above. After it restarted, double-tapping the Home Button once again shows these 5 apps screens: Settings, Reminders, Mail, Facebook, and Twitter....  I would like for it to behave like all previous iOS versions  - and not have ANY other Apps screens visible when I double-tap the Home Button until after I actually open them myself.

Those apps have always started when the phone is powered on. It's just that in previous versions they did not show on the Quick Launch screen if you had not opened them. It's not clear why you close apps, however; I never do, unless an app misbehaves. I currently have 120 apps in my Quick Launch screen and I see no ill effects from it.

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

No, these apps have not always run in the background like that automatically. Those are not the most recently used apps, those are apps running in the background. That is how multitasking works. They run in the background until you "quit" them by swiping up. When you turn off your phone completely, this all used to reset. Now when I turn on my phone, I have many many apps open (much more for me than the OP does, apps I haven't used in a while).

The ill effects of having too many apps open and running are  decreased battery life and performance.

I'm sure you know more about it than I do, but you are completely wrong. In every respect. Swiping an app up does NOT kill its background process if it is a built in app. And if it is a 3rd party app that receives a notification it will start a background process that will not show up in the Quick Launch screen. The Quick Launch screen does not show apps with background processes, it shows apps that have been used in foreground. Period. Most apps in that screen don't even have background processes. The primary purpose of the Quick Launch screen is what it's name implies - a way to launch apps that have been previously used quickly. The most recently used (probably under a half dozen) are still in RAM in a standby state, so they launch very fast. The remainder are not in RAM at all and cannot run in background because they have been removed from memory. My quick launch screen currently holds 140 apps. Why isn't my phone slow as molasses, then? 

And apparently you didn't read the link I posted, so here it is again: http://www.howtogeek.com/204552/no-closing-background-apps-on-your-iphone-or-ipa d-wont-make-it-faster/ It's always possible you know more than the writer of that article, also. If you do, take it up with him.

Admittedly I don't use it for all 140 apps. But they are resorted every time you use an app, so the most frequently used apps are always the first seen. And I don't remove the others because it would take time, and not provide any real benefit.

This is a known issue by Apple Support and not normal behavior.  When you swipe away an app, it should not launch back automatically upon starting your iPhone.  I just got off a chat session with Apple Support and they acknowledged the issue.  The solution they walked me through that worked for me was to do a reset. 

Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings. 

Only thing I had to do afterwards to bring my phone back to its exact customized state was put my wallpaper back up and redo my finger print. 

If this option does not work, the other solution Apple Support suggested was restore your iPhone from iTunes.  Before you do either of these, be sure to search on Apple's site about Reset All Settings and Restore Backup.

I am having this problem as well. Agreed, this is not normal. I Reset All Settings and Restored Backup, still having a couple apps that automatically start up upon booting up the phone. For me, the two apps are Settings and Clock.

Not sure how Apple let this one slip since it's a fairly obvious thing to notice.

Regarding your restart procedure:

To restart an iPhone in one step, press both the sleep AND home buttons together at the same time and hold them until you see the Apple logo. Then release. The phone will shutdown and restart again automatically.

Hope this helps.

The reason you close apps is because of internet speeds.  My link is very slow.  Even at a coffee shop with public wifi, the bandwidth given to a single user is not that big.  With 100 apps running all checking for updates, getting the latest news, etc, the iPhone stalls not due to lack of CPU but lack of bandwidth.  VERY often my iphone becomes useless for 15-30 seconds while all this activity that I have absolutely no interest in goes on.

Why not close apps?  If you are done with them, close them and get them out of your hair.

Interesting idea, but it's based on the mistaken view that apps in the Quick Launch screen are running. They are not. They are suspended unless they are the active app. They are not checking for updates.

The only apps that MIGHT be checking for updates are those that are enabled in Settings/General/Background App Refresh. If they are turned off there they are not checking for updates. And even if they ARE enabled there they are only rarely checking for updates.

Apps can respond to Notifications whether or not they are shown in the Quick Launch screen. So killing them does not stop Notification activity.

Why not close apps? That's explained in great detail in the link I provided. Because closing them increases battery drain. Because closing them takes time on your part, for no benefit. Because closing them slows down your iOS device when you next need one of those apps. Because closing any of the built in apps doesn't kill them; it just hides the fact that they are still loaded and ready.

I saw your post with the link later and I've now read that post.  The one thing that might be killing me is "News" which is new and it was enabled in the Enable Background App Refresh.  I had not heard of the Background App Refresh option before.  I've turned most (all?) of those off now.  Thank you for the pointer to the article.

It is sad because the one app I would like is to have Mail check for mail every 15 minutes or so even if it is not in the foreground but I'm not sure if it can do that.  Its not listed in the Background App Refresh list.  My imap servers (as far as I know) can't do push notifications.

Off topic slightly but I've also found how to delete apps from iTunes this morning and I'm doing a lot of house cleaning right now.

The pipe coming into my house is soooooo small that I really have to manage the network activity.  Even where I work, the pipe may be big but there are so many other people using it that the download speeds are often slower there than when I'm at home.

I'm turning off the automatic updates from the app store, etc.  What I plan to do is update the apps on iTunes and then push them to my various iOS devices so I only download them once. ... I'll see how that works.

But... back on topic: I don't know why, but since the iOS 9 update my iPhone 6+ is struggling and I'm believe it is due to network bottlenecks rather than CPU.  I see where we can monitor battery usage but I'm much more focused on network consumed.  My battery life for my iPhone isn't a problem for me at all.  With my iPad its been a slight problem just because I often read a book on it for most of the day and then forget to plug it in at night to recharge.

You can track cellular data usage in Settings/Cellular. To track WiFi the Dataman app is a good choice.