Fragland4293
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Q: Does closing apps from the multitasking bar REALLY improve battery life? It seems as if we weren't meant to be closing all of our apps at once because there simply isn't a way to. This leads my question.

Did Apple make it this way because we don't "need" to close them all? I've been wondering this for a long time. Let me know of anyone sees differences in battery performance.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 16, 2012 11:30 PM

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  • by stedman1,

    stedman1 stedman1 Jul 17, 2012 2:15 AM in response to Fragland4293
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    Jul 17, 2012 2:15 AM in response to Fragland4293

    Please see the Apple article below.

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4211

  • by brad805,

    brad805 brad805 Jul 17, 2012 10:02 AM in response to Fragland4293
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    Jul 17, 2012 10:02 AM in response to Fragland4293

    Fragland,

     

    I completely agree with you, this is one of Apple's biggest mistakes. When certain Apps errantly use the iPhone power and memory resources, battery performance and speed performance of the iPhone suffers, often very bad performance. The only way to free this up, is to painstakingly one by one remove them all from background memory because there is no way of knowing which App has "crashed". Still other Apps, as Stedman has pointed out, are just using resources because that is what you decided to set them to do.