Q: iOS 9 Default Startup Apps?

i was having the same problem in the last few days (i mean, i first noticed it a few days ago). turning off the iPhone did nothing, neither soft-resetting it.

it just ocurred to me some 10 minutes ago that i should sync my iPhone on iTunes. so i got the chance and did first a full backup, then sync on iTunes.

i just finished it and searched the internet for articles or posts on this problem, because i wanted to say that, for me, syncing the iPhone and soft-resetting it solved the problem.

i just soft-reset my iPhone, double-clicked on the Home button and voila, there are no running apps on the background.

let's hope it stays like this.

Amaury Vargas wrote:

 

i just soft-reset my iPhone, double-clicked on the Home button and voila, there are no running apps on the background.

 

There are a number of apps running in background. You just don't see them. Ignorance is bliss?

maybe i was not clear. deeply saddened and sorry for that.

of course there are apps running on th background.

what is not happening anymore is apps already running, right after the iPhone was restarted. which is the normal, expected behavior until 9.1.

I also have this problem and for me no non Apple apps can open when these apps are "open". I manually close all apps and restart and hard restart but i can still not open any byt Apples apps.

Two times have I manage to restart and somehow not get this problem and then everything works fine until restart when all apps are back in quick view.

Apple really need to fix this issue with an update soon.

F_Wallgren wrote:

 

I also have this problem and for me no non Apple apps can open when these apps are "open". I manually close all apps and restart and hard restart but i can still not open any byt Apples apps.

 

Two times have I manage to restart and somehow not get this problem and then everything works fine until restart when all apps are back in quick view.

Apple really need to fix this issue with an update soon.

There is nothing to fix. Please read all of the messages in this thread. After you have read them all if you have any new questions or insights please post them.

@Lawrence Finch - Seriously dude, you are missing the point. We all know that there are certain apps that run in the background. We know that ok. But those apps don't actually show as being open when you double press the home button, unless you have opened them of course. That's the difference here, the issue we are talking about here are OPEN apps as opposed to BACKGROUND RUNNING apps. A growing number of users are getting an issue where apps that aren't or haven't been opened - not running in the background, but opened - are showing as being open after rebooting their iphones or other iOS devices. In some cases there are a few apps in other cases people are getting every app on their phones being shown as open when they reboot their phones. Like I said in a previous post, I contacted Apple support and described the issue and was told that this is definitely not a new feature of iOS 9 and should NOT be happening. The end result was that Apple may look at fixing this issue in a future update.

Certainly, there is to fix.

If apple says that should NOT be happening and this will fixing in a future update.

Then will it be true. Full Stop.

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I ran into this situation today at my workplace because someone who was given a company phone was complaining that his personal phone worked different. I have since spoken with several iphone users and they say that this behaviour that people are noticing is indeed bizarre.

I am not sure what it meant by quick launch. Do you mean the "desktop" icons? in which case what we are talking about is NOT quicklaunch. When i double tap the "home" button on the phone, i can see open applications. I assume that these are applications that have been backgrounded. Android phones have sort of a similar thing that is accessed by a little square button ( i believe its called "recent apps button").

So lets call it "recent apps". I have the same behaviour on this one phone that does not show up on another phone. The 5s in question is 9.1 version of apple ios. I am posting here so that if a fix is presented, i can be emailed notified of it and get the user to update their phone.

The problem is that on reboot, applications that the user was not using before rebooting the phone pop up this recent apps place and need to be swiped up to terminate them from running in the background. I thought it was similar to in OSX where you can set applications to start with the logon of the user, so i went around looking for that but could only find "background app refresh" which is turned off globally on the phone, so that wasn't it.

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crapple95 wrote:

 

The problem is that on reboot, applications that the user was not using before rebooting the phone pop up this recent apps place and need to be swiped up to terminate them from running in the background. I thought it was similar to in OSX where you can set applications to start with the logon of the user, so i went around looking for that but could only find "background app refresh" which is turned off globally on the phone, so that wasn't it.

The problem is that you don't get it. Apps that you see when you double press the HOME button ARE NOT RUNNING, in foreground or in background. They are suspended. If something such as a notification triggers their background process it will run, whether you seen them when you double-press the home screen or not. Terminating them just slows your phone down and wastes battery, and does not stop their background processes. It just hides them from you. If you don't want apps to run in background you do it in the Background Apps settings, not by double-pressing the HOME button.

Do you really think all the people around here are dumb or what? WE ALL KNOW WHAT BACKGROUND PROCESSING IS AND NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT! So please shut up and let us continue to analyze the problem / bug.

I repeat: This is a BUG! Nothing else.

It just doesn't mak ANY sense so tap 2-times on the Home-button just to have 50+ apps showing, no matter if they'e running or not. The whole feature is taken to absolute absurdity by having countless apps that haven't bees used in months instead of showing the true recently used apps.

I'm quoting Apple right now, just to give, a final note,

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Switch between apps

You can quickly switch from one app to another on your iOS device. When you switch back, you can pick up right where you left off. Follow these steps:

1. Double-click the Home button to see recently used apps.
2. Swipe left or right to find the app you want to use.
3. Tap the app.

To close an app, double-click the Home button to see recently used apps. Then swipe up on the app you want to close.

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You can find these lines on the official Apple homepage: About Multitasking on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

AND NOW: Back to topic folks, this bug is super annoying. Apple MUST fix it asap.

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Thank you Mister Funkee.

This has to be said now.

Lawrence, I have read all of the posts on this thread as well as your posts.  I'm not sure where the disconnect it but

1) the behavior has changed.  Before installing iOS 9 on my iPad Air this NEVER happened (apps which I had done the "swipe up" action to remove them from whatever you want to call the multi-tasking display (we of course are not talking about the Siri Suggestions screen with recently used apps that you get when swiping to the right on the home screen but rather the multi-tasking display where you can scroll back and forth with apps that are in some form of multi-tasking mode - whatever Apple is doing with these apps).  Regardless of what you call it - the behavior has changed.  Before 9.0 when you "removed and app from the multi-tasking mode by swiping up" and then did a power reboot those apps were no longer available.  Those of us who have chosen to frequently do this action - which by the way was highly recommended to me by an Apple Genius Bar person yesterday when I was discussing battery usage with him and a process he does every day or two - are very familiar with how it used to work and how it has changed.  It is particularly troubling that the apps now "showing" in this multi-tasking mode are apps that had never been opened after installing iOS 9.  So this problem is not limited to apps that I have opened and left open.

2) When queried, Apple has admitted that the behavior we are describing is NOT normal and that they are working on a fix. 

So apparently we are discussing or perceiving different things.  But please stop insisting that the behavior we are experiencing is normal and/or not new and/or not a problem.  To be honest, if you rarely do a power reboot and usually keep dozens of apps open as you claim (that's a LOT of apps) then how would you have noticed the problem?

Glad I found this thread.  I had replied to a different thread thinking that maybe I had found a "sort of" fix.  For me there were two apps (Google Maps and inRoute) that, along with Books and App Store, kept showing up.  I had tried multiple things short of a Reset but nothing worked.  So I deleted Google Maps and inRoute and the problem appeared to go away.  In fact, Books and App Store stopped showing up.  But now I am not sure that I have worked around the issue as some of you have apps showing up which you had not previously opened. 

As for the problem being with apps which were open when I upgraded (over the air) to iOS 9 I guess that's possible.  I really can't remember.  But I usually close all apps and do a power reboot before initiating an OS update.  But maybe I missed this one.  I also tend not to run with more then a handful of apps in "multi-tasking mode".  Maybe those apps were doing something in "Background Update" mode when I installed iOS 9.

I don't use Google Maps and inRoute all the time so I am going to leave them off my iPad for a few days and see if the problem comes back.  (I generally do a power reboot every night as this has twice been recommended to me by the Genius Bar people at the Apple Store - different people, different stores.  They didn't say every night but suggest every couple of nights and that there is nothing wrong with doing it every night.  One of this makes it part of his nightly recharge routine.)  If the problem doesn't recur then I will attempt to reinstall one of the above apps and monitor this.  If not problem after a few days then I'll reinstall the other.  And maybe by then we'll get an iOS 9 update.  Which would be really great because I am hoping for a fix to address the Exchange email issue that shows unread emails when there are no unread emails.  But that is another - very annoying - issue.

As just another data point, I have never seen the problem on my new iPhone 6s which came with iOS 9 previously installed and therefore did not require an upgrade to iOS9.

I meant to reply here

OK I just noticed this on my phone today but only having settings automatically showing on recents

iPhone 5S

iOS 9.1

I have been reading through posts on this. It seems like it might be more of an annoyance that anything else.

would I be correct to assume that it is not a big deal? And that when I shut  off and then turn on my phone, I can just swipe closed the settings "app"?

I mean it doesn't seem like a major issue

I would hate to have to reset everything for something that's not an issue