Please, Stop Force Quitting All Your Apps!

Some peoppe force quit all open apps. Here is why it is bad and will hurt your battery life. Only force quit apps if an app is acting up

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[mchestnut]

Yes. I just forced quit YouTube after watching this. Lol

[richard]

I agree with you 100% that it's normally not necessary. But yes, I am going to continue force quitting certain apps when needed. It's sometimes the only way to make them behave properly.

[ItsPaulby]

By this same logic, stop putting folding your cloths and putting them away. You’re literally doing that just to then later go and retrieve them again. It’s more efficient to just leave everything on the floor or bed.

[ivanmytube]

Force quitting apps is essential not only to save battery life and avoiding heating up your iphone, but it also stops being tracked of your location, avoiding connection to bluetooth devices unintentionally, and giving a higher chance of successfully launching another app. Yes, I periodically force quitting “most” apps in the background, but not ALL of them.

[elitecasting]

I force quit my apps all the time and after a year my battery life was at 98%

[techinrl]

YouTube is the app I most have to force quit because it starts behaving weirdly with the comments section coming up blank or the title showing as the previous video I watched and not the current one. When that happens, force quitting is the only solution.

[amUusTV]

No, you can’t stop me

Nah but I only force close apps that aren’t working, or need to be, Wendy’s for example, it uses my location when the app is open so unless I manually close it, it continues to use my location the whole time, had it running in the background for like 10 minutes before I closed it myself once!

[cafzone]

Well, I'm doing it anyway: managing and switching between them is way more doable if you keep only used apps. The app switcher is crazy if you don't do that...

[seiren]

Not gonna stop, I like when apps are opening from clean slate

[byammine]

When they’re all closed, it makes it more convenient to switch between apps that I’m currently using. I don’t have any issues with battery so it’s not a problem always closing them

[mikemarti]

Yes, i will continue to force close apps. The Waze app for instance, it will continue to run in the background unless you force close it. Hence, the battery drain.

[BenPark]

I disagree with this. There are apps that is battery inefficient. I had my phone drain battery, literally overnight after a full charge. I was a sleep at the time. It continued until I force quit all the apps and it stopped doing that. I am not saying you need to force quit all the apps but sometimes you need to do it.

[bigfoot]

If am not using the app I don’t see the reason to let it run on the background some apps are notorious for tracking ur every move.

[hanskutube]

Not really buying it… So many times stuff stops working efficiently the more apps I have open. …. Its even worse on my iPad.

[MustangChick]

Andrew….I can’t!!! My OCD went off the rails when you scrolled back through all those open apps. Like nope gotta get rid of things I haven’t used in ages. I could probably use frequently used apps open longer than I do currently—and I swear I’ll work on that, but that many apps to flip through. Cannot do it!

[dqcfixy]

omg the amount of open apps in this video triggered me to a whole another level

[foxglove]

Sometimes I have to force quit because iPhone glitches every once in a while and even after a restart it still doesn't fix it. I don't do it all the time but force quitting does fix a lot of issues I've had with all my iPhones and iPads.

[brokenlegz]

I’m on 14.8.1 and yesterday I used the music app for about 20 seconds to check if I was on the right radio station. I left the app open and by the end of the day it had 1 minute screen time but used 45% of my battery. I’m going to start closing my apps!

[joeleomoreno]

Force quitting apps is a fantastic way to immediately return to the app’s default launch page. This is very handy when your buried several screens deep in Facebook, Instagram, etc. and it’s also handy when apps start acting wonky.

[JunkionMarnot]

Yup. Still gonna do it.

Give a few months; they’ll be saying it actually helps.