iPhone, itouch, iPad users

Ya Never Know · May 2011

I just thought I'd share this in case I'm not the only person on the planet that didn't know this, but on any of these devices, if you double click the home button, all the programs/apps that you have running will appear so you can close them. If your battery always seems to be running out quickly, it's entirely possible that you could have some 50+ apps running! Closing them speeds up th OS and reduces battery usage. When you double click the home button and the apps appear at the bottom, you just hold your finger over an app until the little minus symbols show up and then you press the minus signs to close them. I had no idea! I had practically every app open on my iPad and touch!

happilyeverafterxo · May 2011

Wow! Thank you, I did not know this

I have a BlackBerry and apps also run in the background if you don't close them. I did not know the Apple products were the same way! Thanks for the tip girl

NDGOIRISH · May 2011

Holy sh!t! I had just about every app running too! Thx for the info!

slouise12 · May 2011

This is probably a really dumb question and I'm embarrased to ask but how do you actually close an app? I used to have a blackberry and I had this problem with all the apps running but I have no idea how to stop an app other than just hitting the home button and going back to my main screen. Embarrassed

LegallyBlonde217 · May 2011

Wow. Holy 20+ apps running on my iPhone! Thanks for the tip.

amor_eterno · May 2011

Thanks for the tip! I had so many apps running, no wonder my battery was getting drained so quickly.

I am Marla Singer · May 2011

OMG!! Thanks!!! My iPhone keeps losing charge so quick!! Yay!

mwalliser · May 2011

slouise12:
This is probably a really dumb question and I'm embarrased to ask but how do you actually close an app? I used to have a blackberry and I had this problem with all the apps running but I have no idea how to stop an app other than just hitting the home button and going back to my main screen.

If you hold your finder on the app then it will start to wiggle and the little X should appear in the top corner, just click the X (like if you were deleting the app completely) and it will close it. (Only do this from the part where you have clicked the home button twice, otherwise you are actually deleting the app.)

Niki64 · May 2011

Thank you so much for this! My DH just got an iphone 4, and I have an ipod touch and had nooo idea that you could do that! Thanks again!!

Mrs.Slick · May 2011

Call me an idiot, but when I double click my home button absolutely nothing happens...

Megaloo05 · May 2011

Mrs.Slick:
Call me an idiot, but when I double click my home button absolutely nothing happens...

Im right there with you Mrs. Slick. I have the Iphone 3G so maybe thats why mine doens't do anything. In the words of my sister "I have a dinosaur phone "

Mrs.Slick · May 2011

Megaloo05:
Mrs.Slick:
Call me an idiot, but when I double click my home button absolutely nothing happens...
Im right there with you Mrs. Slick. I have the Iphone 3G so maybe thats why mine doens't do anything. In the words of my sister "I have a dinosaur phone "

I have a dinosaur phone too (3G) maybe that's the problem

Megaloo05 · May 2011

mrssqueegy:
Mrs.Slick:
Megaloo05:

Mrs.Slick:
Call me an idiot, but when I double click my home button absolutely nothing happens...

Im right there with you Mrs. Slick. I have the Iphone 3G so maybe thats why mine doens't do anything. In the words of my sister "I have a dinosaur phone "

I have a dinosaur phone too (3G) maybe that's the problem

It is only a feature of the newest operating system iOS 4.0, so if you haven't updated to that, you won't have that option.

I have the newest operating system and it doesn't work

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