Is there a way to close all applications with one button

It seems that not all apps are well written and some do not stop using their Location Services (battery drainer) even when they are not "up and running". Closing down unused apps DOES make the battery last longer. I have noticed this since the 6.0 rev. I also tunr off the Location Services for certain apps that I deem do not need it.

My 3GS slows down considerably and apps just stop opening all together once many "hibernating" apps have built up. I would LOVE to be able to close out all apps with a few clicks instead of dozens.

Our house is pretty much the same configuration as yours. My husband has his iPhone jailbroken and mine is not. We still both run into the same problems after a number of apps have been opened. I find often when discussing shortcomings of iOS with Apple folks that there is a tendency to become incredibly defensive. I absolutely love my Apple products, but they're not perfect.

Anyway, does anyone know if there is a third-party memory management product for non-jailbroken phones? I found one in the app store, but when I read the reviews it appears that all it does is tell you how to shut down apps.

I found a curius thing! running only Safari and BMSSM

My free mem was~ 13%

Other instances mem wired 7% ,active 15%, inactive 15%

Then I started a bunche of Apps

some of them and the free mem went down a bit

but not mush the system used mem from inactiv mem

Then killed all but Safari and BMSSM

and suddenly I had 35% free mem.

and "inactive mem" mush lower.

Therefor "killing" Apps gives free mem!

Yes, but that is'nt the whole true.

One have to be aware that. Also some apps

seems using mem more agressive in some way

and They complain if there is lack of FREE MEM

and the crashore often.

They seems so be helped when I kill all sleepers.

There is no need killing, true. But it helps sometime :kr

glitch in ios some where???

NO electronicsguy the iOS is SUPPOSED to handle that on demand BUT there is a things called bugs and Memory leaks poorly written apps that use the builtin iOS features that DO run in the background DO NOT always release resources like they should they also so not always clean up cache data filling up storage on the phone with DAta that shows up as other if you view it in iTunes.

So you are correct if the app and the OS are working correctly there is no reason you need to close apps BUT there are plenty of apps that DO NOT work correctly and there are even bugs in the OS and built in apps that do not free up RAM like they should. there is even problems with apps using Cellular data connection even when you have specifically turned off use Cell data in settings. The iOS is NOT perfect nore are the apps written for it. Just becuase something is SUPPOSED to happen does not mean it does.

boltedenergy wrote:

did anyone ever find a way to shutdown all of them without jail breaking?

As it isn't necessary, Apple has not felt the need to waste time creating the feature.

You may want to educate yourself a bit more on how iOS (and smart phones in general) work:

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

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-popular-smartphone-myths-that-arent-true/

It may help reassure you about why what you're asking isn't necessary (and is sometimes not a good idea).

Best of luck.

boltedenergy wrote:

so yes sometimes it IS necessary to close all the apps for a 'refresh'

Yes, sometimes apps misbehave and it is necessary to force close them. But it's rare. And Apple has already included a mechanism to do that. It doesn't require any sort of mass removal of everything in Recents.

boltedenergy wrote:

so yes sometimes it IS necessary to close all the apps for a 'refresh' and btw IOS already provides this functionality with the up swipe in task manager, all I want is a one click solution!

Nowhere does it say close ALL apps. It says close misbehaving apps, or apps "that are coded badly". And such apps, once you have identified them, should be deleted and not used.

Safari will only cause problems if you never close pages. The suggestion to close it is a way to free memory if you let pages accumulate forever, of if you have visited a toxic site that has created a page lock. I've never had to close Safari, and rarely any other app. I currently have 81 apps in the quick launch screen. I never close any, unless they have misbehaved. My battery life is great, and my iPhone responds instantly to everything I do with it.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

I've never had to close Safari, and rarely any other app. I currently have 81 apps in the quick launch screen. I never close any, unless they have misbehaved. My battery life is great, and my iPhone responds instantly to everything I do with it.

My experience is much the same. Every once in a while I remember to close my Safari windows.

the apps are not really open n running. it is just a recently used list. the apps are in a hibernated state in the flash n not in memory. (except a few core ones like music, messages, etc)

Sorry there isn't a one button to close all the applications. You would have to close it out like how Apple tech does it.

What are these processes running in the background when it gets warm?

How many recently used apps do you have to have to get down to the low memory counts you are claiming?

@electronicsguy - is that why pandora continues to play music for me when i close out of it? No RAM used at all by that?

Pandora (and some other music apps) are one of but a handful of apps that actually run in the background. Is does use RAM although very little.