iPhone: This TikTok is right when it says never completely close your apps
Closing apps completely on iPhone is a bad idea. Let iOS manage your apps on its own.
The older generation may have difficulty understanding devices such as smartphones. They have trouble answering the call, they expect you to know their own passwords, and of course they never completely close their apps. After all, swiping through your apps is the best way to keep your iPhone running fast and consuming less battery, right? In truth, no. And your parents and grandparents are ultimately right that their apps are always open.
Completely closing apps on iPhone is a bad idea
However, it’s not your fault if you think otherwise. Apple doesn’t say when you set up your iPhone that you don’t have to close your apps completely. This is a common belief, and in theory it makes sense. If you do the same with your iPhone and encounter TikTok as shown below, you might think of real misinformation, as is often the case on these sorts of platforms, but this time the information is 100% verified.
It may seem completely counterintuitive, but closing apps makes things harder. When you close an app, iOS has to fully open it again the next time you launch it, which consumes more power and battery. If you leave an app in your phone’s memory, it will either be already open in the background, ready to use, or “paused”, that is, not open by itself, but not completely closed either.
Let iOS take control of your apps
Apple has designed its multitasking system for optimal use without your intervention. Your iPhone pauses apps when needed to make room for other apps and tasks. That’s why sometimes the app you used a few minutes ago is still working when you need it again, and sometimes it needs to be “refreshed”. But updating an app requires fewer resources than opening it from scratch.
The idea, as you understand, is to find a balance. Your iPhone wants to keep the apps it can work with fully open while pausing apps that don’t fit. The system knows how to do it better than you, so it’s best to let it handle it. Moreover, you cannot manually pause the application, only completely close it.
This does not mean that you should never close the application. You have to swipe up on the app whenever it behaves weird, freezes or something like that. If Messages keeps crashing if Instagram isn’t loading your Direct Messages, often the solution is to close the app entirely.
That being said, as long as your applications behave normally, let the system handle it. It’s nice to clean your iPhone this way, but the benefits are limited to aesthetics. If you want your phone to perform optimally while maintaining maximum battery life, don’t close apps completely.
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