iOS 9 Default Startup Apps?

i was having the same problem in the last few days (i mean, i first noticed it a few days ago). turning off the iPhone did nothing, neither soft-resetting it.

it just ocurred to me some 10 minutes ago that i should sync my iPhone on iTunes. so i got the chance and did first a full backup, then sync on iTunes.

i just finished it and searched the internet for articles or posts on this problem, because i wanted to say that, for me, syncing the iPhone and soft-resetting it solved the problem.

i just soft-reset my iPhone, double-clicked on the Home button and voila, there are no running apps on the background.

let's hope it stays like this.

@ appuse16: Jep, seems that it has been solved with 9.2. No opened apps after restart beside the ones I indeed had opened. Nice! That's how it should be.

@ Laurence: Man please. You really don't get the point of this whole discussion plus you really don't get the reason behind this particular feature. PLEASE let the matter rest once and for all. No one is interested in your opinion cause everyone knows it's just nonsense. Thank you.

I agree with Meg.

Lawrence's basic premise is that there is no correlation between the number of apps in the Recents tray and performance -- which is true. He had many in the tray but good performance. I had very few and poor performance. Without correlation, there can hardly be causation. Or, to rephrase, many were assuming a particular symptom to be a problem when in fact it was not even a consistent symptom.

I hope he continues to help people.

Regarding your restart procedure:

To restart an iPhone in one step, press both the sleep AND home buttons together at the same time and hold them until you see the Apple logo. Then release. The phone will shutdown and restart again automatically.

Hope this helps.

I saw your post with the link later and I've now read that post. The one thing that might be killing me is "News" which is new and it was enabled in the Enable Background App Refresh. I had not heard of the Background App Refresh option before. I've turned most (all?) of those off now. Thank you for the pointer to the article.

It is sad because the one app I would like is to have Mail check for mail every 15 minutes or so even if it is not in the foreground but I'm not sure if it can do that. Its not listed in the Background App Refresh list. My imap servers (as far as I know) can't do push notifications.

Off topic slightly but I've also found how to delete apps from iTunes this morning and I'm doing a lot of house cleaning right now.

The pipe coming into my house is soooooo small that I really have to manage the network activity. Even where I work, the pipe may be big but there are so many other people using it that the download speeds are often slower there than when I'm at home.

I'm turning off the automatic updates from the app store, etc. What I plan to do is update the apps on iTunes and then push them to my various iOS devices so I only download them once. ... I'll see how that works.

But... back on topic: I don't know why, but since the iOS 9 update my iPhone 6+ is struggling and I'm believe it is due to network bottlenecks rather than CPU. I see where we can monitor battery usage but I'm much more focused on network consumed. My battery life for my iPhone isn't a problem for me at all. With my iPad its been a slight problem just because I often read a book on it for most of the day and then forget to plug it in at night to recharge.

I have this same problem on my iPhone 6 and iPad 3 since updating to iOS 9 except the only app open in the background when I restart is Settings. My workmate has an iPhone 6s and every app on her phone is open in the background when she restarts so it sounds like it's a random thing and not just apps already running or recently used as I hardly go into Settings. It's obviously some kind of bug that some users are getting so hopefully it gets addressed in a further update.

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I ran into this situation today at my workplace because someone who was given a company phone was complaining that his personal phone worked different. I have since spoken with several iphone users and they say that this behaviour that people are noticing is indeed bizarre.

I am not sure what it meant by quick launch. Do you mean the "desktop" icons? in which case what we are talking about is NOT quicklaunch. When i double tap the "home" button on the phone, i can see open applications. I assume that these are applications that have been backgrounded. Android phones have sort of a similar thing that is accessed by a little square button ( i believe its called "recent apps button").

So lets call it "recent apps". I have the same behaviour on this one phone that does not show up on another phone. The 5s in question is 9.1 version of apple ios. I am posting here so that if a fix is presented, i can be emailed notified of it and get the user to update their phone.

The problem is that on reboot, applications that the user was not using before rebooting the phone pop up this recent apps place and need to be swiped up to terminate them from running in the background. I thought it was similar to in OSX where you can set applications to start with the logon of the user, so i went around looking for that but could only find "background app refresh" which is turned off globally on the phone, so that wasn't it.

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Glad I found this thread. I had replied to a different thread thinking that maybe I had found a "sort of" fix. For me there were two apps (Google Maps and inRoute) that, along with Books and App Store, kept showing up. I had tried multiple things short of a Reset but nothing worked. So I deleted Google Maps and inRoute and the problem appeared to go away. In fact, Books and App Store stopped showing up. But now I am not sure that I have worked around the issue as some of you have apps showing up which you had not previously opened.

As for the problem being with apps which were open when I upgraded (over the air) to iOS 9 I guess that's possible. I really can't remember. But I usually close all apps and do a power reboot before initiating an OS update. But maybe I missed this one. I also tend not to run with more then a handful of apps in "multi-tasking mode". Maybe those apps were doing something in "Background Update" mode when I installed iOS 9.

I don't use Google Maps and inRoute all the time so I am going to leave them off my iPad for a few days and see if the problem comes back. (I generally do a power reboot every night as this has twice been recommended to me by the Genius Bar people at the Apple Store - different people, different stores. They didn't say every night but suggest every couple of nights and that there is nothing wrong with doing it every night. One of this makes it part of his nightly recharge routine.) If the problem doesn't recur then I will attempt to reinstall one of the above apps and monitor this. If not problem after a few days then I'll reinstall the other. And maybe by then we'll get an iOS 9 update. Which would be really great because I am hoping for a fix to address the Exchange email issue that shows unread emails when there are no unread emails. But that is another - very annoying - issue.

As just another data point, I have never seen the problem on my new iPhone 6s which came with iOS 9 previously installed and therefore did not require an upgrade to iOS9.

Admittedly I don't use it for all 140 apps. But they are resorted every time you use an app, so the most frequently used apps are always the first seen. And I don't remove the others because it would take time, and not provide any real benefit.

I am having this problem as well. Agreed, this is not normal. I Reset All Settings and Restored Backup, still having a couple apps that automatically start up upon booting up the phone. For me, the two apps are Settings and Clock.

Not sure how Apple let this one slip since it's a fairly obvious thing to notice.

The reason you close apps is because of internet speeds. My link is very slow. Even at a coffee shop with public wifi, the bandwidth given to a single user is not that big. With 100 apps running all checking for updates, getting the latest news, etc, the iPhone stalls not due to lack of CPU but lack of bandwidth. VERY often my iphone becomes useless for 15-30 seconds while all this activity that I have absolutely no interest in goes on.

Why not close apps? If you are done with them, close them and get them out of your hair.

You may be right in general, but on my iPhone 6s apps i have never used like podcasts, watch, iBooks always appear in the quick launch. Just to be clear, I do not use those apps and never opened them, and several others, not in iOS 9 or iOS 8 for that matter.

Some apps like calculator don't reappear after they have been swiped up and the phone restarted.

So, if apps you've opened are supposed to appear in the quick launch screen and don't and/or apps you have not opened EVER do appear then at the very least, the design as you describe has not been implemented correctly. Not on my phone or on the phones of several people posting here.

Dears,

I have the same issue when I switched my iPhone 6 on, I found "Caravan crush" it's a game ... run automatically.,,rence

Mr.Lawrence I beg your pardon please... it's for god sick a real error like GreggMack54 said...,,,

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