[nomoregames]

I used to have 2-3 apps and always immediately to close them from the multitasking but i read that this is using more battery when killing the apps and then again launching them ..

What do you think??

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[kataran]

iOS will do it automatic to free up resources.

I only clear the tray when I need to restart my device which is very very seldom

[Jaguarr40]

The misnomer is that is uses more battery by keeping apps you have used during the day so called open.
First of all they go dormant in 10 mins and there is no harm but in both my phone and iPad I shut everything down at the end of the night but that is just me and I do turn off both devices at the end of the night.

[Tartarus]

Since I read clearing multitasking causes more battery drain, I only clear it when I'm gonna restart my device. I finally started enjoying the speed of my phone from the day I keep them open.

[acerace113]

When ever I'm not using a app, I don't like my multitasking cards cluttered with apps I haven't used for a day...


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[kataran]

I was always use to leaving apps open in webOS with only 256MBs of ram and I found it seemed to run smoother that way

Fully opening an app instead of waking it from a dormant state will drain resources. I have four large games open for over a week along with a half dozen apps and my battery life as well as system resources are in order

[Sekelani Zwambila]

I do it every time I put the phone down


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[TurboTiger]

I leave those apps I use often down in the multi task tray.
But I clear everything out before going to bed.
Good Luck

[warcraftWidow]

I rarely clear anything out. Only when an app is acting up. One time I did it just for fun and I must have had four or five dozen apps on the multitasking tray some of which I hadn't used in months.

[Tpence2177]

Like once a month.. Maybe usually I don't do anything to maintain my iphone. I just use it.


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[nomoregames]

Does someone had problems with the battery usage?
For example: u didn't clear the multi tasking and some app made the usage much higher while running in background,but u was rarely using it..


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[Speedygi]

No reason to do it if iOS does that for me...

[taz323]

Very rarely do I close them. Restarts

[kataran]

Does someone had problems with the battery usage?
For example: u didn't clear the multi tasking and some app made the usage much higher while running in background,but u was rarely using it..


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Well in some instances like if your running maps or a jog app they are using resources and battery but not to the point where you should be really concerned

[AlexJ92]

Only if I have had an app crash so not very often


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[Davingtons]

I very rarely close an application down. I don't see the need to close apps down as iOS handles this for me so I've not notices any drain on resources etc.

The only time I would close one is if something has gone wrong with the app.

[rayz336]

Clearing it usually happens when I am about to reset my iPhone or iPad

[Ariel Babalao]

The multitasking was created for some purposes, abilities to switch between open apps, and of course ability to kill app. In the past I have done some experiments on my iPhone, at that time running ios 6 to monitor how the iPhone 4S was handling the ram memory with load of apps opened and I realized that the more apps were open in the background the more less free ram the iPhone was left with, while this is good for quick app relaunching, the device was struggling to handle some more heavy apps live iMovie or Keynote likes apps, the struggle was noticeable as the app would take time before giving go to user to interact with, of course iPhone 4S is 500Mb of ram but the apps are built in consideration to that. But when there was nothing in the multitask, iMovie would lunch quicker and work faster.
An app which struggle to free some ram in order to operate properly is likely to drain power. The app that was not in the multitasking and is just lunch will also drain some power, but the things is I don't very often heavy apps to want to have a lot of free ram for the app to run quicker rather than the app first freeing memory before loading completely, so I've decided to not mind about opened apps in the multitasking and have them ready for next use. Also I made sure to disable the background app refresh so they do not just eat up memory, but also keep the CPU busy by refreshing every so often causing my battery to drain more faster. Since then, I was set and things just work.


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[DroidArmy]

I never clear the multitasking. iOS can handle the memory usage very well without me interfering

[nikkisharif]

I rarely clear anything out. I just looked & I have about 30 apps (give or take a few) open

[Not Quite Right]

An Apple genius once told me there's no reason to clear the recently used apps list, he made it sound like it's almost detrimental to do so. I still do about once a week with a reboot. Maybe this is just a placebo effect, but it works for me. I just wish there was a button to kill all apps at once like on Android ...

[pr1nce]

Maybe every few days I'll clear it out. I do this out of habit. Not that it's needed or anything.

[kataran]

The multitasking was created for some purposes, abilities to switch between open apps, and of course ability to kill app. In the past I have done some experiments on my iPhone, at that time running ios 6 to monitor how the iPhone 4S was handling the ram memory with load of apps opened and I realized that the more apps were open in the background the more less free ram the iPhone was left with, while this is good for quick app relaunching, the device was struggling to handle some more heavy apps live iMovie or Keynote likes apps, the struggle was noticeable as the app would take time before giving go to user to interact with, of course iPhone 4S is 500Mb of ram but the apps are built in consideration to that. But when there was nothing in the multitask, iMovie would lunch quicker and work faster.
An app which struggle to free some ram in order to operate properly is likely to drain power. The app that was not in the multitasking and is just lunch will also drain some power, but the things is I don't very often heavy apps to want to have a lot of free ram for the app to run quicker rather than the app first freeing memory before loading completely, so I've decided to not mind about opened apps in the multitasking and have them ready for next use. Also I made sure to disable the background app refresh so they do not just eat up memory, but also keep the CPU busy by refreshing every so often causing my battery to drain more faster. Since then, I was set and things just work.


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I agree with your experiment but disabling app refresh is where I disagree

That said if Apple gave us the option to work right out of the multitasking tray when we wake up our device eliminating the double home button press I would welcome it

[agarwal.apar]

I clear it after every session. The only apps which keep running in the background are phone and SMS


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[EmceeGeek]

I do it without any thought to it, so I don't exactly know how often I clear it.