Force quit: News to me, to iOS 6, to everyone?

**bebef** · 10-09-2012, 03:30 AM

Hi there!

I just discovered the part of the iPhone manual that describes force-quitting an app: hold the standby button until the slider is displayed, then hold the home button until the app quits.
I wasn't aware of this, were you? Until now, I just rebooted the phone...

Is this a new thing to iOS 6?

Steffen

**johndhynes** · 10-09-2012, 04:07 AM

New to iPhone OS 3. Before that, you just held down the home button, but 3 changed that to voice control.

**bebef** · 10-09-2012, 04:09 AM

Wow, I totally missed that...

Seems that RTFM IS a good idea after all, even for intiutive products like iOS devices ;-)

**Heisenberg** · 10-09-2012, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by johndhynes

New to iPhone OS 3. Before that, you just held down the home button, but 3 changed that to voice control.

It was OS 4 when multi-tasking was implemented.

**johndhynes** · 10-09-2012, 04:44 PM

Force-quitting was around before 3rd-party multitasking. We're not talking about force-quitting background apps from the switcher. Stock apps from Apple could always multitask, and would often go bad.

See this article by Rene from 2009.

**John Yester** · 10-09-2012, 05:46 PM

This is also used to "Calibrate the home button"

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This is also used to "Calibrate the home button"