iPhone users should stop closing apps as it will ruin your phone

APPLE fans have been urged to stop constantly “quitting” their apps.

If you always swipe them closed in your iPhone's app drawer, you're making a big mistake.

It's a common belief that you should force close apps by swiping them closed.

The idea is that this improves battery life and performance, but it's a total myth.

In fact, Apple recommends only closing an app in extreme circumstances, saying that closing all your apps will provide no battery benefit.

A Reddit thread asked whether it's worth closing apps to improve performance, and iPhone owners were strongly advised against it.

“You don't have to do that. You don't even have to do that on Android,” one user warned.

Another explained: “Many people are under the mistaken impression that manually closing iOS apps is a good thing.

“But in reality, force-closing apps makes the device work harder and consume more battery next one time those apps are used.

“The operating system manages apps in a much more efficient way than you can.

“The only reason you should think about force-closing apps is if you're troubleshooting a problem.”

When an app is not in use, it typically goes into one of several background states.

These suspended states are designed not to consume significant amounts of power to preserve battery performance and life.

However, if you force quit apps, your iPhone will have to work harder to fully restart them the next time.

A popular 2022 TikTok video by @carterpcs also urged users to stop closing apps, gaining over 212,000 likes.

Apple itself has urged users to force quit apps only if they are unresponsive or behaving improperly.

“If an app seems unresponsive or unresponsive frozenyou can close it and then open it again,” Apple explains.

“You should only close an app if it becomes unresponsive.”

A separate page notes: “Normally there is no reason to close an app; for example, closing it does not save any battery power.”

But some iPhone owners may find it difficult to break this habit.

One aggrieved Apple fan wrote: “You monsters just leave all your apps open all the time???????”

Another said: “My husband can't deal with it and he closes everything after he's done with it. He goes crazy when he sees how many apps are open and I go crazy when he closes them for me lol.”

And someone added: “I'm not trying to gain any advantage or thinking about the battery, I just can't stand the visual chaos.”