Do you 'close' your iOS apps?

Well, do you?

I know of a few people who regularly, systematically open the app tray and close all open apps one by one. I never do this unless I need to quit an app for some specific reason and view it as a complete waste of time... I also feel no ill effects. I'm curious to hear other experiences.

Only time I close anything is when I have a problem with an App freezing , and then I think "hmm, perhaps I should close these 1,423 others ?" I think I'd like to see a "close all" option as when I do this it seems to take ages.

Ditto Miffed. I never close an app, I never reboot the iPhone (or Android for that matter) unless there is a problem to hand. That happens from time to time, some apps are worse than others. But generally I leave it to the 21st century operating system to take care of such matters for me. This isn't Symbian, after all :)

Where on Earth are all these religious app closes, hmm? I know you're out there!

I thought there was no point closing apps on iOS due to the way it handles multitasking?

[QUOTE=Wilt;45957]I thought there was no point closing apps on iOS due to the way it handles multitasking?[/QUOTE]

Yup, and the same applies to Android. Both OS are quite capable of handling the multitasking and backgrounding of apps. But where developers introduce various bugs, most notably around in-app memory management, problems begin to occur. The apps themselves become unstable or unresponsive. They may crash entirely. Rarely will they crash the host OS though - although it has been seen before also.

So, the actual need to close an app is entirely redundant on iOS. Generally :)

I close apps sometimes, but generally I never bother. I find iOS does a good job of managing 'open' apps.

Anyway, you may want to read "[URL="http://speirs.org/blog/2012/1/2/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html"]Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking[/URL]" which does a good job of summing it up.

I do get the impression that people (me included) look at open apps like they've left the tap running!

My feeling is that for the large part , multitasking was only ever a stick to beat Apple with clutched at by the Apple hate brigade anyway.

I never close the apps, but then again I do restart them every night to face any problems with performance. :D