Q: How do I shut down or close apps?

a098 wrote:

 

bobseufert is wrong. Apps can run in the background, and when you close them, it does help your device run faster. To close the apps running in the background, just double-click the Home button, and swipe up on each app to close it. When you've closed all of the apps (or most of them, anyway), your device should be more responsive.

Perhaps you can read this and be enlightened: http://www.howtogeek.com/204552/no-closing-background-apps-on-your-iphone-or-ipa d-wont-make-it-faster/

Well, perhaps you haven't read that whole article. As it states further down the page, apps do run in the background and you can prevent them from doing that.

I will demonstrate.  Open the Camera app. Double click the home button. Notice the thumbnail of the Camera app is a live picture. That app is open. Tap another app. to open it. Double click the home button. Magically the Camera app is now closed. If as Meg St. Clair has pointed out it's an app that gathers data when it's closed  like Mail, it will gather data no matter what.

a098 wrote:

 

Well, perhaps you haven't read that whole article. As it states further down the page, apps do run in the background and you can prevent them from doing that.

Yes, but that has nothing to do with closing apps. You do that in Settings/General/Background app refresh. And closing an app will not prevent it from running in background if it receives a notification.

AS stated in that article.

Well, I tried what you said, and the camera app was "magically" still open.

You're not listening. Yes, Camera is listed in the Recents view, because it was recently used, but it's screen is now black, empty, not live, ie, it is not running in the background, it is not "still open."