Mominator
Level 1
(1 points)
Q: Closing apps
Someone said I need to fully close my apps on my iMac, as I do on the iPad [by double clicking on the home button, then tossing away all the half-open apps]. They said all the apps I have used are poised like instant-on, ready to open again, and they are taking up space and slowing the system down. Is this so?
by Mike Sombrio,Solvedanswer
Mike Sombrio
Level 6
(17,283 points)
Apple Watch
No. Someone is misinformed. When you choose Quit from the applications menu it quits.
- File Cache: Memory that was recently used by applications and is available for use by other applications. For example, if you've been using Mail and then quit Mail, the RAM that Mail was using becomes part of the file cache, which then becomes available to other apps. If you open Mail again before its file cache memory is used (overwritten) by another app, Mail opens more quickly because its file cache is converted back to app memory instead of loading all of its contents from your startup drive.
