It is useless to forcibly terminate an application on iOS, rather it consumes batteries

ByHamza Butt

In order to prevent reduction of the battery, I think that there are also people who double-tap the iPhone's Home button to forcibly terminate an application that is not using, but in fact this behavior has little meaning, rather it is wastefully consuming the battery It leads to results that result.

Daring Fireball: Public Service Announcement: You Should Not Force Quit Apps on iOS
https://daringfireball.net/2017/07/you_should_not_force_quit_apps

Although it is quite natural to think that "Reducing unused applications will reduce processor and memory consumption", it is natural that iOS automatically "freezes" applications that are not working as designed It has become possible to efficiently reduce resource consumption. The effect is very high, rather it is enough to consume more CPU resources and batteries due to the act of "dropping the application".

Mr. Craig Federigi, senior vice president of software engineering at Apple and counting on one of the major iOS development teams, asked the question from the user "Do you close the multitasking application and avoid reducing battery?" "The answer is neither :-)" to answer to "


The same thing is mentioned in Apple's support page.

Force quitting on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch - Apple support


According to the description on Apple's support page, it is only when the application stops responding when it is recommended to forcibly terminate the application, and the application running in the background is put in the standby mode (frozen) so that it can be used in multitasking It is said that it is becoming.


According to the blog "Daring Fireball", Steve Jobs touched on this subject in 2010 and said that there is no need to terminate the application with e-mail addressed to MacDailyNews as below.

Just use [iOS multitasking] as designed, and you'll be happy. No need to ever quit apps.

You can be satisfied with just using it as designed (for multitasking on iOS). There is no need to terminate the application anymore.