There will be a new multitasking feature in the firmware of your iPhone or iPad, it looks even more magical, although I personally think it’s missing something, perhaps shadows and volume. But today’s post is not about a flat interface, but about working with applications in multitasking mode. We will learn how to close programs on an iPhone (or iPad) with iOS 7 firmware, and we will also look at the features of the new multitasking.
Multitasking iOS 7 on iPhone and iPad
When the iPhone first appeared, it did not have full multitasking, but with the advent of iOS 4 the situation improved. It was enough to press the Home button twice (in the tablet you could use the 4-finger gesture up), and a dock with applications running in memory opened at the bottom of the iPhone and iPad (see screenshot No. 1). This dock lasted until the release of firmware 7; it could be used to navigate between applications and open a special panel with a music widget and display rotation settings.
Multitasking for iPhone - landscape mode. Firmware iOS 7.0
In iOS 7, multitasking has acquired a new interface (screen No. 2), which is launched by the same double-click on the Home button. Now not only icons are lined up, but also the application windows themselves. In multitasking mode, you can no longer use the music widget; the additional panel has moved to . The iPhone display can accommodate a maximum of three running applications, but by scrolling through the display you can see other programs stored in the memory.
Closing applications on iPhone and iPad with iOS 7
Starting from iOS 4 to 6, you could close iPhone or iPad programs in multitasking mode as follows:
Close the application on the Apple iPad. Firmware iOS 6
In the lower dock, you just had to touch and hold any program or game icon, as soon as the icons started moving, we pressed the red circle in the upper left corner and quit the application.
With iOS 7, closing apps on iPads and iPhones has become even easier and faster. Now everything is done with a slight movement of the hand.
Closing apps on iPhone has become even easier with iOS 7
By double-clicking Home, we enter multitasking mode, where we can close any game or program with a swipe up; we need to pull not the icons, but the running windows of the applications themselves. Now you know how to close iPhone and iPad applications, but that's not all. You can close programs in iOS 7 in batches, grab three applications at once with your fingers and pull up - that’s it, the applications are closed and no longer hang around in memory.
I remember when I had the first iPhone, it was possible to perform . This feature was useful if a particular application froze. We tried to apply this sequence of actions in iOS 7 installed on an iPhone 5. As a result, we could not force close the application; it simply restarted. Therefore, you can use holding Power, followed by holding Home only to restart a particular application, but not to shut down its work.
Closing the desired application in the iOS 9 mobile operating system is easy. Although the multitasking screen now looks a little different, the process remains the same as in previous versions of the OS.
Using this method, you can close one application or several at once. It's worth noting that if you close an app this way, you'll be closing it completely, rather than just stopping it from running for a while, which is what happens when you leave an app in iOS.
How to Completely Quit an App in iOS 9 on iPhone 6, iPad, and iPod Touch
The video below demonstrates the process of closing apps in iOS 9, which will work fine in future versions such as iOS 10:
You can close multiple applications at once using multi-touch capabilities.
Keep in mind, there's not much reason to close apps you're no longer using on iOS, since the mobile operating system manages resources and memory automatically by stopping apps in the background. However, logging out of applications and closing them can be useful in some cases. For example, this is a reliable way to fix application crashes.
When I first encountered the iPhone, I was very surprised when I looked at how many open applications it had accumulated, such as Instagram, WhatsApp, photo album, folders, safari pages, games, camera and other things - in a word, as they usually call “windows” in Windows "
I had to experiment quite a bit before I learned how to close it all. It should be noted that the procedure depends slightly on the version of iOS 6, iOS 7, iOS 10 or iOS X.
Almost nothing depends on the version of the phone, for example, iPhone 5s, iPhone 7, iPhone 6, iPhone se, iPhone 5, iPhone 6s, iPhone x, iPhone 4, iPhone 4s, only on the version of the operating system.
Just before moving on to the description of how to close open tabs on an iPhone, I recommend that you decide whether it is necessary to close open program windows on an iPhone at all. See last section.
How to close open apps and tabs on iPhone
iOS 7 brought a lot of changes to the system, both in terms of appearance and functionality.
Not all of these changes are intuitive for everyone. In iOS 6, we had to press the Home button twice to get the icon bar to pop up.
To close one of them, you need to hold your finger a little longer on one of them, which forced the system to enter edit mode and we could close open programs
In iOS 7 - 10, this view is completely replaced by a full-screen App Manager, which displays background programs as preview tabs.
We still get in there by double-tapping the Home button, but apps close differently.
For every open program in the background on iOS 7, an icon with its name appears at the bottom, and a preview tab appears above it.
To close apps, simply pull an open tab to the top of the display, as if you'd like to throw it off the screen. In version 10, closing is also performed with a sharp jerk from the top.
By swiping left or right, you can switch between open windows and turn them off.
You can also close two apps at the same time - just use your second finger to "throw away" two tabs.
How to close an app on iPhone X
Swipe from the bottom of the iPhone X display and hold your finger in the center of the screen. Pausing is the key to unlocking app tab switching.
Hold your finger on the window of any tab from the running windows until the delete icon is displayed at the top left.
Click the icon or swipe up on a tab to close it completely.
How to close all tabs in Safari
Safari has an interface that makes closing tabs convenient. Thanks to a simple trick, you can even close everything at once at the same time.
To do this, hold your finger on the first icon (show icon) at the bottom right - in the form of two squares superimposed on one another.
After this, a menu will pop up at the bottom and close all open tabs at once (the number will be indicated.)
NOTE: In iOS 9, you must close all cards one by one. In iOS 10 you can do this with one click.
Should I close open windows on my iPhone?
All active applications slow down devices - they use memory, battery power and processor resources.
Logically, you should manually close these processes. Only when you press the Home button does iOS disable apps.
It stops using CPU and battery power. First, the application goes into the “background” (Background), and then stops (Suspended).
At the same time, although it takes up minimal memory, it does not use the processor resource and battery power.
Although the application takes up memory, it is not necessary to close it - as soon as you launch, for example, a large game, the system will automatically stop everything unnecessary.
So, you don't have to worry about it yourself - you don't have to manage background applications. The system will do this for you, and whether you close everything manually or not is of course up to you. Good luck.
After you launch apps for the first time and when you exit them, iOS automatically pauses them to save battery power. After they are reopened, the system simply unpauses them.
But some programs - especially Facebook, Pokemon and heavy media applications - do not always work reliably. If you encounter the problem of the application freezing or not working correctly, you need to restart it.
In the past, I was a proponent of force closing all unused applications. But now I recommend closing them only if it is glitchy or hanging, since launching an application for the first time consumes much more energy and time than launching it from a paused state.
How to close apps on iPhone
If you suspect that an app such as Facebook, Pokémon Go, or Skype is consuming an excessive amount of power, you can go into your settings and check your suspicions.
- How to find out which apps are eating up energy and cellular data on your iPhone
How to close three apps at once on iPhone
You probably won't close more than one app often, as this will inevitably reduce performance and battery life since the first launch uses more power. But if you can't find the source of slowdown or rapid battery drain, you can use the close gesture for up to three applications at once.
How to Close All Apps Without Entering the Application Manager on iPhone or iPad
If for some reason you don't want to use the Application Manager app interface to close one of the programs, you can close it the old-fashioned way: By holding down the Power and Home buttons.
These are two different ways to close apps on iPhone and iPad, but the results are the same.
Questions?
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