Swiping your apps closed don’t improve running speed and battery life in iOS

Users using Android may be accustomed to cleaning up various background processes frequently. Cleaning up these processes can help save system power and increase the speed of their devices.

The Apple iOS system also provides a method for forcibly killing processes, that is, by dragging an application in a multitasking view, the process where the application is located can be forcibly killed.

So can this killing process by Apple users increase the overall speed of the device? Does cleaning up temporarily unwanted application processes improve battery life?

The answer is no, according to Tyla reports that frequent killing processes not only fail to improve the overall operating speed of the device but may also cause greater power expenditure and affect battery life.

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In the official support document released by Apple, the company stated that forcibly killing background processes, that is, forcibly closing applications, is only recommended when the application is not responding.

That is, when an application is stuck and cannot continue to operate during the startup or use process, it is recommended to force the killing process and restart the application to resume normal use.

By default, the most recently used applications appear in the multitasking view. These applications are not directly opened but are in standby mode.

This standby mode can help users browse and multi-task, so users do not need to worry about these applications running quietly in the background and consuming power.

In addition, in the system settings, if an application is not set to allow background refresh, the application will run in the background for a while and then enter the paused state.

When an application is in a suspended state, it will not consume system power, but if the user forcibly kills the process, it may consume more power.

The reason is that if the user is re-opened after the process is forcibly killed, it needs to occupy additional memory for startup and increase user waiting time.

In this process, the battery power consumed by the application must be recovered directly from the suspended state, so frequent killing processes may actually reduce battery life.