Closing background apps

[gardiboy]

Do u guys close background apps on a regular basis?

Take a vote.

 

[Nemesismaster]

Nope. Looks stupid to do so.

 

[gardiboy]

Nope. Looks stupid to do so.

Kind of redundant. iOS manually kills apps when memory is low.

 

[the_ultimate]

Good to close them. If jb, can use zephyr. Close all at one go.

 

[gardiboy]

Good to close them. If jb, can use zephyr. Close all at one go.

Bumps for more stats

 

[sandwicher]

Used to. Not anymore with iPhone 5. iOS handles this, unlike Android. Hence there's no need to close the apps.

 

[blade39]

According to a battery app, batteryDoctor. Facebook consume the most battery if left in the background, so i will close it after using, battery seem to last longer if i close the app.

For the rest of the apps i did not care to close it after using them.

U can try my suggestion if u use the facebook app regularly and let us know, i dont know whether is it a psychological effect or not....

 

[bagger 288]

Whatsapp is a battery suxker

 

[Noroto]

Whatsapp is a battery suxker

Not true. Whatsapp doesn't run anything on bg. Push notifications are system wide

 

[kssk88]

Is it possible to completely turn off Push.

Although I set manual for notifications, my SBS transit app with alert " none" still pops up.

I'm on IOS6.1

 

[gardiboy]

Cheers all for the replies!

 

[turtle splash]

I used to do it often at first but now I am too lazy

 

[Salapi]

Depends. But it's just a placebo effect.

Still sometimes hand itchy close it.

OCD

 

[gardiboy]

Depends. But it's just a placebo effect.

Still sometimes hand itchy close it.

OCD

I dun close apps...

 

[NitrousExpress]

don't bother with closing background apps, 9.9 out of 10 it's not running nor is it consuming any memory

iirc there's only 2 service that allows an iOS background app to continue running, the location and audio service.

active location service apps is very easy to detect via settings.

audio, you can obviously hear it, unless the app developer decides to play punk and play infinite loop sound at zero volume when in background to purposely drain your battery

 

[Twinsen]

Sometimes email dont display. Need to kill app and relaunch then will work correctly.
Whatsapp also occasional drain battery like crazy... Phone will heat up... Need to kill it.

 

[gardiboy]

Rumours has it that fb app has to be forced closed, if not it would drain batt..

 

[imohan1911]

What do you mean by background apps?. Not sure if it is related to my problem. Camera App and GPS App unable to close even after I exit the App resulting in rapid battery drainage. Would closing the background APP, double click home button solve my problem?.