Q: iOS 9 Default Startup Apps?

I have this same problem on my iPhone 6 and iPad 3 since updating to iOS 9 except the only app open in the background when I restart is Settings. My workmate has an iPhone 6s and every app on her phone is open in the background when she restarts so it sounds like it's a random thing and not just apps already running or recently used as I hardly go into Settings. It's obviously some kind of bug that some users are getting so hopefully it gets addressed in a further update.

You may be right in general, but on my iPhone 6s apps i have never used like podcasts, watch, iBooks always appear in the quick launch. Just to be clear, I do not use those apps and never opened them, and several others, not in iOS 9 or iOS 8 for that matter.

Some apps like calculator don't reappear after they have been swiped up and the phone restarted.

So, if apps you've opened are supposed to  appear in the quick launch screen and don't and/or apps you have not opened EVER do appear then at the very least, the design as you describe has not been implemented correctly. Not on my phone or on the phones of several people posting here.

Dears,

I have the same issue when I switched my iPhone 6 on, I found "Caravan crush" it's a game ... run automatically.,,rence

Mr.Lawrence I beg your pardon please... it's for god sick a real error like GreggMack54 said...,,,

MeemZ,,

Hello guys.

First sorry for my bad english, i am german.

I have exacly the same problem.

I have update my iphone 6 to io9 over a slowy connection.
And now after each restart starts few apps automatically in Background.
It are ever the same apps.
Even close all apps and restart over hold both buttons (home+lock) = no change

And I have the Feeling this are apps who were open during the update.

And I don't wanna reseting completely my iPhone.

Kind regards,

Thomas

thomas.gth wrote:

 

I have exacly the same problem.

You do not have a "problem." It doesn't matter what applications are listed in the Quick Launch view. They are not running, they are suspended. And applications can be running even if they are not visible in the Quick Launch view. Killing them there is not necessary unless they are not working correctly, and is a bad idea in general, as it slows your system. See: http://www.howtogeek.com/204552/no-closing-background-apps-on-your-iphone-or-ipa d-wont-make-it-faster/

Thank you Lawrence,

yes i know that apps in the quick launch are not a problem.

But this behavior is not correct.

Apps those are not to see in quick launch should not are there after restart.
This was before the update so.
And this is by all other users, who i know, so.

And this is by my other iphone so.

And so that is the behavior not uniform and so is this wrong.

thomas.gth is indeed correct, and perhaps on to something. He mentions he has "the Feeling this are apps who were open during the update". Now that I recall I do use the Clock app often, and it's one of the two apps that constantly open at startup (the other one was Settings, naturally, as it's needed to update the IOS). Because of this, chances are it was open when I updated to the new IOS. So I'm not going to necessarily disagree with his assertion that apps which are open at update are the ones that automatically start up after the update.

There are those, I've noticed, who continue to hammer and hammer on the Quick Launch list view. Neither thomas.gth nor myself nor others with this issue are talking about Quick Launch, at all. This problem has nothing to do with Quick Launch. We're well aware of what that is and this is something different. We're talking about apps that are automatically booted up upon powering on the iPhone. Meaning, you boot up your phone, then immediately afterward double-click the Home button, these apps are in fact open and running. Again, it is not Quick Launch. So please stop insisting upon this, it is no help whatsoever and has nothing to do with the anomaly at hand.

Hi, having the same problem with my iPad Air here, after the device starts the "Quick Launch" is always filled with the same apps as it was prior the update to iOS 9, not the ones I used after the update!

I've tried everything to get rid of those > delete > respring > reset > restore etc. nothing changed, those apps still showing in the "Quick Launch" (double-click Home button).

This is super annoying, any fix is much appreciated.

Now  I made update to IOS 9.1 Result = not better

What can we do?, Maybe anyone can make a call to apple.

By definition, what you see when you double-press the HOME button is the Quick Launch screen. So it has everything to do with Quick Launch. And it doesn't matter what you see when you double-press the HOME button. The phone works the same way whether you see no apps, 5 apps, or, as it is on my phone, 124 apps, because I never close them.

If you want to waste your time trying to fix a non-problem, be my guest. But all you are doing IS wasting our time.

Let me try and clarify this...

Before the iOS 9 update, when you turned your phone off and then turned it back on no apps were open. If you double tapped the home button there would be no apps open in the background because no apps had been used, because the phone had just started up.

Ever since the iOS 9 update, if you turn your phone off and then turn it on, straight from boot up random apps are already open in the background. These are apps that haven't been recently used, or were open before shutting down the phone but seem to open by themselves once the phone reboots.

The only 'app' this happens to me with is Settings. Every time I turn my phone off and then turn it back on Settings is already open in the background regardless of if I had used it before turning my phone off or not. This NEVER happened before updating to iOS 9 and that is the issue that people in this thread are reporting. The amount of apps open vary and it doesn't matter if the apps were recently used or not. It's totally random.

Another example; My workmate bought an iPhone 6s and after turning it on and setting it up for the first time she found that every app on the phone was already open in the background. After hard rebooting a few times and even reinstalling iOS, She found another bunch of random apps opened.

So the point is, this did NOT happen before iOS 9. Not everyone is getting this issue and the amount of apps opened after rebooting varies for users who are experiencing this issue. It's a bug plain and simple.

bpow77 wrote:

 

Let me try and clarify this...

 

Before the iOS 9 update, when you turned your phone off and then turned it back on no apps were open. If you double tapped the home button there would be no apps open in the background because no apps had been used, because the phone had just started up.

 

Absolutely wrong. Before iOS 9, when you turned your phone off, then on again, the same apps that were displayed in the Quick Launch screen when you shut it off would still be displayed when you turned it back on. Likewise if you rebooted the phone. I know, I've been doing this cycle for over 8 years. And my 100 plus apps were there both before and after the power cycle. So if you are basing your "issue" on this it is a non-issue. Just to make sure I hadn't misremembered, I took my wife's 3GS running 6.1.6, checked which apps were listed, turned to phone off, then turned it back on and the same apps were still displayed in the Quick Launch ribbon. On my 4S and 6 I regularly turn them off, and when I turn them on the same apps are displayed. This was true in iOS 7 on the 4S, and iOS 8 on the 6.

If I misinterpreted what you said, and you really meant that you closed all of the apps before powering off, that's a different situation. Keep in mind that an app that shows in the screen when you double-press the HOME button is not running, and may not even be in memory. As the phone has only 1 GB RAM only a few apps can actually be in memory. So of the 120 apps that I can scroll through probably only 4 or 5 are actually in RAM. The rest have been flushed from memory, and only their ghost is displayed. And also keep in mind that even if an app does not appear when you double-press the HOME button that does not mean it is not running. Apps can run in background even if they don't appear when you double-press HOME. Or at least they could in the past.

Given that, I see what you are observing. After I flush all apps and power cycle the phone, if I double-press HOME immediately I don't see any apps. However, If I wait a minute before pressing I see Settings, Photo, Camera, Calendar, Phone, Music, App Store, Mail, Clock, Safari, Messages, Contacts, and Reminders. What all of these apps have in common is a background process that syncs them with iCloud or other Internet services. These apps have always had background processes since the beginning of iPhone time in 2007 (or since they were added to iOS). I suspect that the reason you see them is iOS 9 has been changed to show you what has actually been running in background all the time. Before iOS 9 they would be launched, but you wouldn't see them until you actually opened the app. Now with iOS 9 it is telling you what apps have been launched in background. So it is giving you more information than you had with earlier versions. It is not suddenly starting apps that had never been launched in earlier versions, just telling you more than you knew with earlier versions. And BTW, there's no point in killing any of them; they will still continue to wait in background for notifications.

Just an update; I called Apple support and the person I spoke to said that he has had quite a few calls regarding this 'quirk' and that it should NOT be happening regardless of if the app was running prior to phone shut down or not. If you close all apps before shutting the phone off then no apps should be already open when the phone reboots. He suspects that this will be something addressed in future updates. Also for the record, I just updated to iOS 9.1 and I now have a completely different set of apps that are open on reboot. Some are apps I haven't used for many months. It's not a huge issue but it is annoying.

Thank you bpow77 for calling apple.
I have exactly the same issue also with 9.1.
And you are right its just annoying.

I echo thomas.gth's sentiments. Thank you, bpow77, for calling Apple. At last we know that Apple is aware of the problem via numerous complaints and that what we're experiencing should not be occurring, and that there is nothing a customer can do about it. Now that we know that this is an Apple issue, there's no further need for anyone who experiences this problem to continue trying to fix it, much less entertain certain armchair advice based on "misinterpretation" that has proven to be a distraction at best. We should wait on Apple to fix this issue in an upcoming update and not risk screwing something else up on our phones by trying to fix it ourselves with wild goose chases.

I also updated to 9.1 and I still have the issue.

EDIT: I do have to continue to side with thomas.gth's observation, that these apps that open upon startup are those that were open at the time we updated our phones to 9.0.0.0.0.0.0. Because what I've noticed on my phone is eerily similar to what he's observed. Of course for others it might be random apps, but for me there is no random app that I've never used that is automatically opening upon phone startup.