Is force closing apps bad for your phone?

Is force closing apps good for your phone? Is it actually bad for it? Circuit Breaker reporter Ashley Carman reports.

[arthurg]

But OCD doesn't allow to keep apps open

[cruant]

Basically everything I do on my phone is bad for my phone..

[adrianh.]

Never trust a tech enthusiast from a person with an iPhone case like that lol

[lyamlexa]

Not the battery i'm worried of, but the ram eating apps that are making my phone slower and glitchy/freeze.

[LeBeautiful]

Why are these videos so simple, but so *good?*

[taltigolt]

i hate not keeping that list clean and empty

[Ethan-lxfe]

I don't find this to be true. When I don't force close apps, my Galaxy S8 begins to get slow and unresponsive. When I do close them, the phone perform much faster!

[arthurg]

This series is awesome, you should increase the upload frequency

[kirollosdemian]

Thank you very informative
You should do more of this series

[bardr]

Great research, I was expecting you to actually test the loss of battery time by closing apps over a period of time. I guess spending 10 minutes reading some text was easier.

[akheebsharieff]

Pixel XL (First Gen), saw your article a few weeks back on force closing apps and how it wasn't necessary. It is. Since I read the article I stopped force closing the apps. In the beginning it was nice and a lot more easier but around a week and a half back I noticed that the apps which you do not force close and not open later (as in just minimised), let's say for a week or so, somehow remain stuck at the same page that you last left it even after you've restarted your phone or after having cleared your multitask list. I've seen this happen with Relay Pro, Instagram, Apple Music, Netflix etc. Any ideas?

[mrvais]

Yes ! these simple videos are amazing and straight to the point, even though i knew it.
Another success video by Ashley, more please :)

[AnonymousFreakYT]

For me, I generally keep open apps that I use a lot, and force-close apps I don't use often. If iOS and Android had easy app-switchers with more than just a couple "shortcut" apps (the dock holds too few, except on tablets, ) I'd use that. But I have more than four apps I use often that I want to switch between. And if I have loaded six more apps since the last time I loaded Google Keep, for example, then I have to scroll quite a ways in the app switcher to get to it.

[xygnal]

I agree, but I have a question. If I have limited, slow RAM, will it affect the swapping of apps in memory?
I agree that we should let the OS do its thing, but will slower ram on midrange phones make a difference?

[callison]

iPhone 7 here. Multiple times Siri dictation in the messages app will stop working until I close apps in the background. I’ve had the same issue with my camera as well. Not sure if it is exactly a RAM issue as many have pointed out but I’d like your opinion on this Verge.

[alphaadhito]

But the urge to have "clean" phone is strong with this one

[sacrusoe]

We need more videos like this one...very informative 💪🏻

[ahmedshams]

Specially when you have a dedicated "recent apps" key, its more compulsive to close apps .

[jayesh]

Does it works on android too!! Running background apps will not harm in battery or lagging in phone ???

[Gyrator]

So every app I open I should just leave it there and it won't use up my RAM and make other processes slower? What if I leave a large, graphics intensive game running? I always thought I needed to clear my apps for performance reasons such as that.