Should I close apps on my iPhone and iPad to save battery life? I think the past always held the answer that it should be done. Close the apps was the watchword! The argument was that you would save battery life.
Apple says otherwise!
Think about the comment from David Pierce on 3/15/2016 from Wired Magazine.
FOR A CERTAIN sort of smartphone user, closing apps becomes almost automatic. You double-tap the home button on your iPhone or hit the multitasking key on your Android, and you just start swiping. You close all the apps you’ve been using. Days, weeks, months’ worth. Not only is there something deeply cathartic about it, but it feels like a cleansing, a reset. Best of all, with no apps running, your battery’s in great shape! Right?
Right?!
Wrong.
In the last week or so, both Apple and Google have confirmed that closing your apps does absolutely nothing to improve your battery life. In fact, says Hiroshi Lockheimer, the VP of Engineering for Android, it might make things worse.
Now if you are into saving battery, let me make a few suggestions. Turn the brightness down on your display. Turn off background refreshing of apps. And by all means, turn off location services for apps that don’t need it. Or, if you are desperate to preserve what battery life you have, turn on Airplane mode.
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Stop quitting apps on your iPhone and iPad … it’s making things worse!
11:41 AM ET Thu, 20 July 2017
Force closing apps doesn’t save battery life or system resources, writes CNBC’s Todd Haselton.
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