Why iPhones Don't Have A 'Close All Apps' Button
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- čas přidán 22. 02. 2024
- Many iPhone users have grown accustom to closing all their background apps. Which can become tedious, since it has to be done manually. This has left people wondering why Apple doesn’t add a “close all apps” button. Similar to what you’d find on many Android devices. Well, it’s because Apple's iOS takes a different approach to app management than Android.
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Hi! I’m saying this on an iPhone right now and this just helped me so much. Yes, by the time I’m posting this the video is fifty minutes old lol
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But my OCD tells me to close them all lmao 😂
The benefit is that I don’t have to see a million apps open all the time. It makes multitasking ugly
the apps you will use the most will go to the front
But you have to scroll quite a bit to find an app you want to go back to after using a few other apps.@@Jessycakeboy
@@OLIVERJACK.maybe it doesnt on iphone but it does on ipad so it half counts
@@AsterWi It works the same on iphone with newer iOS versions
I recently found this out, and apologized to my dad, who I jokingly hassled about having too many apps open. Good to know.
"Jokingly"
@@PaulBorobia1619 It was. Even the apology was a bit of a joke. We poke fun at each other for things.
@@PaulBorobia1619
Yeah ! it's not a word, ik...but you knew what he meant...😅
Yeah, everyone now knows the truth about app closing! You don't need to. 😂
@@hector4913 You're right. I don't know where I got that from. 🤣
Actually, Android does take a very similar approach to iOS and has done so for years. Not even all OEMs have a Close All button, and stock Android as found on Google Pixel phones famously makes the button very hard to find (probably on purpose).
yea even motorola phones dont seem to have close all button
Yep, the explanation on the Android side is so wrong on many levels. Android also empties memory for apps as well. Especially on Samsung and Xiaomi devices.
@@TheColonThree Amen. It doesn't even force stop the app when you close it from that view.
With the benefit that Android keeps Apps open for waaayyy longer. If I leave a recourse intensive game on my iPad for just one second to do something in a different App, the game gets closed and needs to reload. While my 5-year-old Android leaves it open, even if I'm opening 2 or 3 Apps in the meantime.
they do, just swipe right as far as it goes, there will be a close all apps button there.@@AlluringPegasu13
There's no point in leaving an app open if you're not using it on the regular
this.
True
so it will automatically clear the ram for it
Don’t care I just don’t want to see all the apps open lol
That’s more clean😂
Same
Modern version of people that would empty their computer recycle/trash bin *every time they deleted a file.*
@@thebasketballhistorian3291I mean people don't have to use the close all apps button. There's really no downside to having the option. Apple's refusal to give people customization is borderline weird
Literally just swipe all the apps then haha
There is a therapeutic effect that users feel upon closing all or swiping all apps. It feels good.
I think it also has the added benefit of users recalling/remembering what apps they used throughout the day/week, sort of like revisiting their digital trail
Exactly
@@PrabhablyAGoodCZcamsr mfs will say anything to defend apple
@@skandy6847 I use a S23 Ultra. I was just saying it's good to wind down at the end of day or week and manually swipe through all your apps you opened - even if you can instantly close all of them on android
@@PrabhablyAGoodCZcamsr fair enough, but I still feel like it should be something you can choose to do, not something you *have* to do because your phone doesn't allow otherwise
1:27 the Dynamic Island dissapeared… lol
that looks so weird
looks so much better that way
Rip OnePlus 7 pro / Mi 9T (pro)
@@x0670they do look much better
sadly for apple, it means they lose an identity
most phones nowadays have almost an edge to edge screen, so apple needs to design smth different so when people see one's phone, they know it's an apple
Greg accidentally swiped that too
Android does make other background apps sleep just like an iPhone, this is true with just about the ram management on any phone you buy, closing all apps on an android phone has the same effect as closing all the apps on an iPhone, the difference being there being a button on Android.
Yeah. I think most people close background apps the same way they close browser tabs on a computer. If they need to go back and use the app from where they left of, they keep it open. If they have no use for it, they close it, and are able to start back from the home page of the app when they need it again.
Yeah but only until recently! Back in the old days androids were lagging and having apps crashing if you keep them open for a while 😅 that’s why they add the clear all apps button!
Android even tells you what apps are running in the background and which aren’t. It actually benefits the user more than on iPhone.
I rarely close all apps
The only time I close an app is if it starts acting buggy.
I close apps all the time
@@kelvinkoma2406I have one app open at one given time 😅
@@kelvinkoma2406same man. I’ve been doing that forever ♾️. I’m just used to it. And I like how clear my phone looks. Also, idk if this is true. But I heard that having way too many apps running in the background and NOT closing them out will make your phone SUPER hot when you’re not using it. Again! Like I said, Dk if it’s true or not. I’ve done SOME research. But it could also be a question with a 50/50 answer. Meaning yes and no. So I’m not sure who’s correct here
I’ve been trying to tell people this for years but they believe it helps and I don’t even argue it anymore. Have fun swiping for nothing 😂
Same
It's not "for nothing", but actually "for worse".
I just counted the number of apps I have open-97. I rarely close apps if you can’t tell.
As an Apple fan who still uses Android, I once asked my friend with an iPhone why he had things like the camera app open if he wasn't going to use it. I confess telling him to close apps.
Uhmm people have OCD and this one of the symptoms.. closing unused apps 😂😢
The benefit to the user (me) of being able to close all apps at once, is that my phone isn't visually cluttered with open apps I'm not using.
Exactly, would you have 50 programs open on your computer? That would be insane
@@NterpriseCEO You quite literally do. Just open task manager and check. I currently have 101 background processes running.
Apple clearly doesn't know the average user's habits. We close the app because the next time we open it, we will be on the homepage of the app and the content will be updated. Especially on iOS, it is often very difficult to close the window and return to the App's home page. Sometimes the window is closed in the upper right corner or upper left corner or slid down. It is often frustrating to return to the app's home page without the back button. So I make sure to close all apps from the background.
no, thats just users OCD
I don’t know anyone who thinks like this. Everyone I know just closes the apps because they think it saves battery life
Are you implying that you should be taken as the average? Apple is selling more than 200 million iPhones each year and you’re just one person.
The one downside to this automatic management is that sometimes apps I want to continue running in the background get closed after performing certain actions. CZcams, I've noticed, has to restart every time I open the camera, for example. I wish they would give us the option to pin an app in RAM like many Android OSs can to make it exempt from this automatic memory management.
I only keep the apps in the background that I know I’ll use again during the day. Those that I use only once and not again for a long while I swipe up as I don’t want to weed through several apps just find the one I want to make active.
So you look for the app you want through the switcher and the Home Screen or search
I’m literally addicted to all these videos
Same, I found this channel last week and have been watching for days straight
This channel clarified most of my iOS doubts since I was Galaxy user (and I'm OneUI+iOS fanboy) ❤
Closing apps doesn't have to be about BATTERY, you can close apps for OTHER REASONS. This whole idea that the ONLY reason someone would close an app is to "preserve battery life" which is NOT accurate at all.
Yeah i still dont understand what the benefit is to not having a close-all button lol
Cause it would lead to people just clicking it for no reason
@tylerdurden783 he did not say that in the video
Apple like controlling how people use their devices by making some things impossible or alot more tricky/tedious. This trys to make how they want you to use your device easier, but if you want do something thats not in their image of how your device should be used, they throw a thousand hurdles.
acting like android doesn't have optimization
In this particular area, they don’t do it AS WELL as iOS. No one is saying Android isn’t optimized or doesn’t also try to do this particular optimization. Calm down and stop searching for something to be angry about lol
it doesn't idiot.
@@wholesomeducky chad moment
@@wholesomeducky op: 6 words
your comment: 40 words
it seems you are a little bit more angry
Using caps, are you sure you aren't the angry one ?@@wholesomeducky
Lol Android optimizes background apps as well, so whether they're "open" or "closed" doesn't really matter for the battery. I'll tell you more: even if you manually close an app from the multitasking menu, it may still run in the background, because of optimization and the fact that Android thinks it may still be used in near future. You can even try to reproduce it yourself - just open an app, kill it and immediately (for the highest probability it's still cached) open it again. I don't know if every Android phone does this, but the higher-end ones should. Mine is Huawei P20 and most often does this with Google Maps & CZcams.
And now why a close all button is useful (even though it doesn't necessarily kill all apps)? It helps users manage multitasking. When I e.g. finish work session with my phone and start to use it for private / leisure purposes, I want to quickly mentally disconnect from my work, so I just close all open apps. And there are numerous examples like this, the general pattern is I finish one kind of multi-app activity and start another. Also closing all apps just feels nice, especially for perfectionist people.
Make a video on why all Apple products ship inside white boxes.
They don’t at least their laptops aren’t
@@acev3521 Nope! The MacBooks also ship inside white boxes.
This is actually pretty cool.
But even if it doesn’t actually help with battery life, it makes the user happier and feels satisfying to close all quickly and believe that it’s helping battery life, so it should still be there
Third-party apps somehow find a way to get around Apple rules when they are put into the background, and they still use up power, so I think it is best to close them out when they are not being used and only leave Apple's first-party apps running in the background.
Thanks so much Greg.
I never knew that closing uses more power when you reopen them.
Some apps on BOTH iOS and tvOS DO need closing regularly, particularly video apps which become unresponsive if not closed for example Red Bull TV app. tvOS DEFINITELY works better if apps are closed after use! Even Apple TV app becomes 'quirky' if not closed after a few days.
One thing though is if an app is set to have location on “while using”, having it open in the app drawer counts as while using.
There’s an app I have called fog of world which displays everywhere you’ve been, uses gps in the background. Since switching to iPhone I’ve noticed a significant deterioration in accuracy and many dropouts. This explains why
I’ve experienced some apps on iOS that refresh in the background even when I don’t grant them that permission. The way that I’ve found to manage this is to close the app as soon as I am done using it. A good example of this is the Level Lock app. If I don’t close it myself it will drain my battery quick despite not having my explicit permission to refresh in the background. I close the app myself and - voila, no battery drain.
You can just go to the background refresh settings which allows you choose which apps could run in the background.
it is because of notifications in iOS. Some apps launches themself when you get notifcation from that app, whatsapp for example. Even if u turn off background app refresh WhatsApp will still stay awake in background. If u close the app it will get relaunched in background again even tho it doesnt exist in app switcher.
@@ilovetech5812so we need to turn off both on background refresh and notification for that app?
she said explicit permission so i think she already did that@@thepunisher8649
@@ilovetech5812if that’s true, then should try turning notifications for that app off in the Notification section of settings. Might also need to turn off notifications within the app itself.
Cool, but they don't even give you the option to have it, that kinda sucks imo
MOMs and DADs having all of their Apps open at once : ♾ battery level 💀💀💀💀💀
True
lol...😆
damn TRUE...
everytime I've opened my mom's phone...i see the whole app store there...😆
😂😆😂@@Explorer-um7dm
@@Explorer-um7dm😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I hate when Apple does that refresh thing tho because I’ve lost many posts on Facebook that I was reading when I just came out to respond to a WhatsApp message and go back to continue reading. It’s ridiculous
It’s so annoying
Didn't you make a video similar to this a few years back?
Yeh…he did….
Closing all apps isn't about ram or battery, its about sanity
I still wanna be able to close all apps at once though 😂😂😂
It’s satisfying to close app
@@yfuaexactly
I think Android also implements the same procedure. I'm using Pixel 6a and I have never closed any background apps until if there's any glitch or irresponse as you mentioned. My battery condition seems pretty good till now.
I dont close my most used apps now since I’ve got to know that reopening apps takes more battery
I usually think it drains battery to have extra apps open and I think it slows down performance to have too many apps open.
I worked at Apple for several years as a Genius. Once I learned the exact thing you addressed in this video, it became a personal goal of mine to educate everyone I could. To this day, I still share this information to anyone I see open up their multitasking and start swiping away. (Within reason, of course. Has to be someone I’m already in conversation with, I don’t cold approach strangers about it…. Yet. 😂)
On Android you can 'lock' needed apps so that Close all doesn't close the locked ones.
RAM management is manufacturer specific, some phones do it very well, some unload every app after a short while even if RAM is still not full.
Yess bro finally the video I was waiting for
Really nice bg stock music, gave depth.
Wow, I didn’t know that closing background apps drains your battery on iPhones!
I assumed that keeping them on the background would drain your battery like on Android. And I own both a Samsung Galaxy S8 (since 2016) & a iPhone 15 Pro Max, both directly bought from Samsung & Apple without a carrier.
You learn something new every day!
Maybe back then but my s24 ultra has a close all and I leave things open doesn't drain battery.
We need answer for "why close all option" is not available on iphone....when it's available on Android....We don't need what happens inside iphone whether ram management or all that....close all option is for ease of use rather than closing one by one....
Using Background Refresh actually consumes more battery power, which is why I have mine turned off.
Why though? Why dumb your phone down for battery? That’s what your battery is for and you can charge it.
@@murpho999 If something is consuming resources ergo battery life, it's counter intuitive to keep this feature turned on.
Thank you for the information
Thank you for the video! Since day 1, I have never closed the app I used. Only for the lagging or error app for only for exceptions.
I don't like seeing dozen of apps in the background. I like to close when I'm done with an app.
Same. I’m so used to to that
just swiple up fully and dont pause
Apple needs another thing to add how munch time you got left of full charge
Wdym by full charge? Like the maximum capacity of your iPhone and how much longer it’ll stay at that percent before it drops? Yeah! Same! I want Apple to add that option
one minute@@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256
I’ve known this for a while, but sometimes I still do this when my phone is sluggish for no reason. I also have a clear RAM app that I click on after and then magically my phone isn’t sluggish anymore and I can continue using whatever app I wanted to use.
thx for explaining
It’s a thumb workout 😅😅
Would be much more intuitive and predictible, if apps would stay opened forever in background if returned to the home screen via swipe from up from bottom and gets closed, if swiped from right or left corner (back gesture) - i.e. like on PCs. This for Android too btw. Because sometimes you need some apps to run in background - like if you downloading something big, and some not - because you finished using them. Because its confusing - why do i see an app in recents, if it is actually not runnning? I think, how iOS and Android both are doing it at current time is confusing.
I think if apple wants to make the user not just touch, especially for parents who like to press the wrong button.
I am just too used to close apps. I was an Android user for 8 years and always closed any apps that I had opened. But now I do not even have to do that. That is interesting.
You forgot to mention that flagship Android devices usually have twice the amount of ram that flagship iPhone devices do, hence the possibility of keeping apps "alive". Samsung informs you directly on app's direct resource allocation and informs you if it is resource intensive allowing you to monitor and adjust manually or let the phone do it itself, where as iOS just tends to shut the app od upon reaching the resource threshold.
1:51 no that's because most android phones have more ram. On Android it acts exactly the same as iOS we just have a faster shortcut to do what takes lots of flicks to apple users.
this really doesnt matter whether it is more optimized or not, people want a close app button, because many are going to want to "close all" apps. hence, a close all apps button should be given. do what is wanted, maybe not what is best. simple.
and for instance, "while it may be satisfying to swipe up and close all your apps, it is not something you should do if you care about maximizing battery life" that is not the point, people will do it anyway, so make it a more efficient process, or integrate it into the software to make it more software efficient too.
I only close when they aren’t responding or I would close my VPN
Woah there, bud. Android forces apps that have not been used to become completely inactive to free up ram. The device will only remember *where* you were in the app when you last left it, and reload it from there.
This video is outdated by a few years. The Android apps are are often cleared from the RAM and inactive. The button used to say 'close all' but now it's 'clear all' and if you do so and go back to the switcher it will say 'no recent items' or 'recent screens show here' etc. Recent, NOT open
I just like to close all the background apps together because I do not want those sitting in the background for days before I open them again. Many old people may also press on them accidentally
Can you do a video about how the phone connects to satellites when out of range of cell signal? It’s kind of odd because I’ll be on the subway deep underground in between stations: I have no 5G, LTE or bars, even SOS is grayed out, but then the little satellite icon comes on?
I can't believe that this is the type of stuff that we all argue about these days!! I'm glad that there is nothing else more important to worry about than “app management” on our respective devices.
Good comment. Also I can't believe how people get so excited over a new ios update.
At least make it optional and we decide what we wanna do ourselves, saving battery isn’t the reason why most people keep or close apps, and you wouldn’t close them if you needed them.
*Manually closes the CZcams app*
iOS simply doesn't allow apps to run in the background, so closing an app doesn't change much. On the other hand Android can run apps in the background while maintaining optimization.
I did not know this. Thank you. ☺️
Well here where you are wrong, even Android switch the apps to hibernation mode using swap partition within the system settings which automatically handle battery and ram optimization, and this isn't exclusive to iOS.
It has always been a design choice and not a technical feature missing
Despite all this claim, Android tends to run better without hitting that clear all button. The main result is Apple doesn't want to give users the choice.
yes apple is bad for the environment by actiavtion lock and other scams to milk money
true he is just an isheep
@@mrfoxesiteisheep 😂
you dont know what it means@@narutoninjagoandtheflashar4256
If users were not meant to close apps by sliding, Apple would have gladly locked that feature down.
I rarely close apps unless I know it’s one I will not be using again for a little while or it’s an app like Google Maps and it’s buried somewhere in my mind that if google maps is open somewhere, it must be draining the hell out of resources & battery
Likely not the case but that vibe remains.
I have noticed Facebook & Facebook messenger by far consume the most battery life on iOS (for myself, can’t speak for you) and I notice they each have the most background use that consumes the battery far more than any other app on my phone.
It’s super annoying and don’t know how to resolve it-and I know it’s probably an easy solution.
I can't be the only one to never allow more than 3-5 apps open at the same time lmao
As a device repair technician, yes, iOS does include a feature that limits RAM when unused, or when multiple tabs are open, however. If leaving all apps open, will still drain the battery. So I recommend leaving “essential” apps open. Like messages, notes, camera roll, etc. so it runs more smoothly, and primary apps made by Apple are more battery efficient compared to third party apps. So if you’re obsessed with Angry birds or TikTok, yeah. Swipe out of them. But keep your essentials. The iOS will learn your usage patterns and adjust. This is my opinion….but definitely have seen significant improvement when comparing app usage vs. battery drainage.
I like to let the apps build up then I close them all really fast with both hands!
It’s a 3rd of the reason I have an iPhone!
It’s just so satisfying!
android has the advantage here, i think. iOS forces users into the "super battery efficient mode", without any choice. android lets you either choose speed by leaving apps open to get back to them more easily, or choose battery life by closing them in the background. having just a few apps open also makes multitasking easier, since now you dont have to manage a million instances of safari or chrome, you have just the tabs you actually need.
once again, an example of iOS making the choice for users, and doing that specific choice slightly better than android. great if you want to use your phone exactly how daddy tim cook wants you to, but there's little room for customization.
Also some phones have the option to use AI to know which apps you use the most to turn off the ones you don't use much.
As an intense user, I still have to close out my apps every once in a while since it seems like my phone slows down if there's more than 20 apps in the background.
It’s kinda satisfying to swipe them all away tbh
The power it takes to open an app is less than the power required to keep the app open for multiple hours/days
that's really funny because before I watched this video I always blamed all those open apps for my iPad to lag
on an older iphone but still the most recent ios version, i notice a difference in battery life if i have many apps open but maybe this is placebo effect?
Samsung phones do a similar thing, they call it Deep Sleep. though if you're using multiple high ram/battery usage apps and dont clear them, that could become an issue if you make a habit of constantly opening those apps before they get the chance to go into Deep Sleep.
I’ve often wondered about this. For years I’ve used a 3rd party app to clear my RAM, but having heard that I don’t need to do this I stopped.
Problem is CZcams when casting to Chromecast. Recently the audio vanishes mid video on occasion and the only way I can find to fix this is to pause the video, clear RAM and then restart. Short of rebooting my phone, that is.
Yeah this is true and its helped me a lot
another reason I thought of is before handing the phone to another person and the device owner doesn't want them to see what they are doing if they agree for if the other person wants to make a call.
On android you have both choices between automatic or manually clean up background apps
Whatever optimizing software Apple has to limit power usage in the background, it doesn't stop them from adding a simple button to save time. Plus, apps that run in the background often restart on their own when not in used because of Apple's "Low Power State Feature"
I was thinking about this yesterday 😂
idk which kind of android phone you are using
my apps automatically die after like 1 minute of not being used even though i have disabled all battery optimization
The problem is that keeping apps open makes multitasking terrible. I don’t want to have to search for the app I used. Also I absolutely love the ‘swipe over the bottom of your phone to switch apps’ they introduced ever since the homebutton disappeared. This becomes very messy however if you have lots of apps open. They could easily fix this issue by making it so that swiping them up doesn’t just close them but does remove them from the up swipe menu. Instead, if you wanted to close an app you’d have to press it for 2 or 3 seconds. This 2-3 seconds waiting time will also make it less likely for people to unnecessarily close their apps which would - as stated in this video - ‘ruin battery and RAM regulations’
thanks to this video i can now quit the habit of closing apps everytime i dont use the phone
Well it works, but it feels dizzy that a lot of apps are open at the same time, and most off the apps cannot go back from where you left off
Iphone has a button before but removed so we slide up only to apps
Some apps seem to run smoother if you close them and restart them periodically.
I know people that:
1. Unlock their phone with a password.
2. Open 3-4 apps.
3. Manually close those 3-4 apps.
4. Lock phone.
5. Just a minute later unlock their phone with a password again.
6. Reopen the same 3-4 apps again.
7. Close those 3-4 apps.
8. Lock phone.
9. Repeat the same process every minute or so! 😂
RIP battery life
in my school we use ipad (9th gen) and someone in my class always unlocks with a passcode yet they can just turn on touch id, and everyone in my class closes all their apps and it annoys me as well (and they leave their ipad charging all night which will drain the capacity)
I always wonder how can an app in super low power mode save more battery than a closed app if I am not going to re-launch that app anytime soon ?
Exactly! I'm still confused why a "low power" state is better than a "no power" state
buzz word tbh it makes the non tech savvy people wow in joy
@@skyMcWeedsno when you reopen the app it uses more battery. stop telling this and getting like
With Android you can do both ways. You can even set it up like iOS and keep certain apps always running in the background. Much better!
Haven’t closed apps like that for years - unless an app isn’t responding
very poor reasoning. Many other operating systems have a "close all" button while also having smart background app management. HyperOS is a perfect example of this.
And Harmony OS by Huawei
@@WololoWololo2 yep!
“Many operating systems” dude.. One Ui, HyperOS and many others are Android skins, except Harmony OS. Harmony OS is whole different OS than Android and IOS, Harmony OS isn’t Android based it just has some limited Android based codes for usability sake (for APK downloads, Android apps compatibility). Oh by the way, Windows 11 also doesn’t have “close all” button Idk if you know that
@@WololoWololo2 Is android in itself not based off of Linux? Yet, we don't see you referring to all these "skins" as Linux. Very little nowadays is built up completely from scratch. HyperOS is so different to stock android that it's hard to argue they're the same thing. Eitherway, whether you think they are Operating Systems or not doesn't change the fact that they have easily accessible ways to close background apps.
@@Fans.of.Darth.Vaders.Empire Dude you can always download custom rom to your phone it will be Linux. What I say is One Ui is just the UI think of like an sticker you stick to your bike / car. UI interfaces by different companies are just the shell of OS its not as critical as operating system itself. But Harmony OS is so Harmony OS is critical
Want clear cache option
I 100% prefers Apple’s approach, but I do think it’s annoying that the multitasking UI displays older apps, no longer in memory. That creates a LONG list of apps you would never swipe trough, because it’s faster to just return to the app launcher and find the app you are looking for.