Gadgetory

do you compulsively force close your apps trying to save battery life or make your phone more efficient so what does exiting apps actually do it turns out closing your apps doesn't help and actually it's bad for your phone Apple's senior VP of software Craig federighi reportedly answered this question to a user in 2016 in an email he said closing apps isn't necessary and it doesn't help with battery life I will explicitly says on its support pages that users should only force closed apps when they're unresponsive meanwhile Hiroshi Locke heimer the senior vice president of platforms of the ecosystems at Google we did a similar thought last year in his tweets he said users shouldn't close out of apps because the operating system already manages what they do in the background it closes apps when necessary and slows them down into background activity just to confirm all this I talked to an independent iOS developer is Shabazz and he said what happens when you've seen in the screenshot right it seen a screenshot of the last EPF was in so the app usually is not running anymore and the an app will wake it up when it needs to run if need be but it actually will let shut it down after just a few side thinks maybe like 10 seconds or so keeping your apps open in the background means your phone can hold them up more quickly as if they were just asleep and you're waking them up relaunching every app requires more work and battery power although data usage matters to you having apps on in the background we use up some data but not that much if you care about your device you'll defer to Google and Apple software management systems they were designed to help listen I hate that this is the truth I'm going to try to keep my apps open but in reality I know I'm going to feel the urge to close them and guess what I'm probably going to do it