Asking Siri for help
I was trying to ask Siri to close all of my open apps and she’s telling me that she can’t do that. Is there a different way for me to ask her or is it the fact that she just can’t close the apps?
iPad, iPadOS 17
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To my knowledge, Siri cannot terminate (i.e., close) a running App.
Force-closing Apps is generally unnecessary - and reduces system performance.
iOS/iPadOS will automatically manage its system resources, moving Apps from active RAM to an inactive/saved state when not being used. When you resume an App from its inactive state, it will open from the saved-state and begin running almost instantly.
By contrast, fully closing an App both closes the App and removes the previously saved state. When relaunching an App for which there is no saved state, the App has to be completely reloaded and reinitialised - which takes longer and consumes more power. Fully closing and relaunching an App uses more power than simply resuming from a previously saved-state.
Resuming an Apps from an inactive/saved state is considerably more power and processor efficient than fully closing and launching afresh. As such, you should not need to fully close an App unless it has malfunctioned.
If you need to manually close one or more Apps, this is simply achieved from the App Switcher page...
To expose the App Switcher page, swipe-upwards from the bottom edge to the centre of the screen, pausing briefly before lifting your finger from the screen; you will see a thumbnail image for each of your currently open Apps. Apps can be force-closed by swiping the corresponding thumbnail off the top of the screen.