Does closing multitasking apps save battery life?
Today we are going to deny a hoax regarding the battery consumption of the apps that are open on the multitasking of our devicesiOS.
Personally, I've always believed in it. In fact, in one of the articles we've written about tips to save battery on our iOS devices, we included a section in which we highlighted that to To avoid excessive consumption of the battery, we should close the multitasking applications.
Closing apps on iPhone doesn't save battery. Leave them open when multitasking:
Many connoisseurs in the matter assure that it is a mistake to close the apps that we have open in multitasking. Here we have an excerpt from an article published on the blog OVERTHOUGHT , in which a former worker at the GENIUS BAR of a APPLE STORE tells us about the why this error:
"Yes, doing this does close the app, but what you may not know is that you're actually making your battery drain worse in the long run if you do this frequently.
Closing the application removes it from the phone's RAM. Even if you are convinced that this is what you really want to do, in reality it usually does not work for what you think. When you open that app again next time your device has to load the entire app into memory again. All this freeing up and re-occupying memory makes your phone work harder than if you just left it on its own.Since iOS automatically closes apps as it needs to access busy memory, you're doing something manually that your device already does for you automatically. Your device should work for you, not the other way around.
The reality is that all those apps in the multitasking section aren't really running in the background: iOS “freezes” them in the state you left them in so they can continue from the same point if activate them again. Unless you turn on background updates your apps have no ability to keep running unless they are playing music, using location services, recording audio, or least obvious of all: Waiting for Voice over IP (VoIP) calls. , like Skype. All of these exceptions except the last one indicate their activity with an icon next to the battery to alert you that they are active."
Our opinion on whether or not to close background apps:
After reading the fragment, we have reconsidered regarding the subject. This has made us change, a bit, our way of acting on multitasking applications.
Apps for multitasking
In the past, whenever we remembered we'd immediately close all apps that appeared when you double-tapped the HOME button, or if you have an iPhone with Face ID , swipe from the bottom frame of the screen, from bottom to top and keep it in the center of the screen for 1 second. We began to eliminate left and right without any consideration. We even closed applications that we immediately reopened afterwards.
Now and after reflecting on this, at least I have changed the way I act on them. If you think about what was commented by this ex-employee of Apple, you realize that he is quite right. Have you not noticed how long it takes to load, for example, the app from FACEBOOK ? and some game?There are apps that take a while to start. That denotes that at startup they make our device work a lot, which leads to a peak consumption.
But does it really compensate these startup peaks with the consumption that the apps make in multitasking?.
We don't know for sure. Below I explain how I manage multitasking to compensate for that battery consumption.
How do I manage open apps in multitasking:
Here I will explain a little how I manage this issue of multitasking apps:
- I never close them whenever I'm going to use the iPhone or iPad continuously, thus avoiding unnecessary startups. When I know that I'm going to be fiddling with the device continuously or at times, I don't bother to close the apps.
- I close some apps when I know I'm going to be without using the device for a long timeWhen I do activities that I know will keep me away from using the iPhone or iPad for more than 2-3 hours, I always clean up my multitasking and delete the apps that I know I won't use much, always leaving open, in my case, WhatsApp, iMessage, Safari, Mail the ones I normally use the most.
- I close all apps when I put my iPhone to sleep at night.
I'm not saying it's what everyone should do. It can help you draw your conclusions.
And you, how do you manage your open apps in multitasking? We are interested to know. If you want to leave your opinion, do so in the comments of this article.
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