Closing apps is a great way to fix them if they’re slow or frozen — but how does this work on the iPhone 13? Here’s what you need to know!
Closing an app is a sure way to fix it if it becomes unresponsive on any Apple-branded handset, but how exactly does the process work on the iPhone 13? Modern smartphones have come a long way in recent years. Displays are larger and brighter, processors are vastly more powerful, batteries last longer, etc. For all of the improvements we’ve made, however, that’s not to say phones are perfect.
Even if someone has the latest and greatest device, there’s always a chance for things to go wrong. Maybe a software update caused an application to misbehave. Perhaps something broke with the touchscreen and it’s no longer responding. Today’s phones are generally more reliable than ones that were available a few years ago. But every now and then, they can still act wonky.
For a lot of users, one of the most basic troubleshooting tips is closing an application. Most people use a lot of apps on any given day. Sometimes, it can be a good idea to go through these apps and close them so they aren’t constantly running in the background. To do so on the iPhone 13, the process is as follows: From the iPhone 13’s home screen, swipe up from the bottom of the display, hold your finger there until you feel a small vibration, swipe horizontally to see all of the open apps, and then swipe up on any app in this list to close it. This works on all iPhone 13 models, including the regular iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max.
When It’s A Good Idea To Close Apps On Your IPhone 13
Closing apps is easy enough, but this also raises an important question. When is it a good idea to close applications on the iPhone 13? In almost every situation, you should only be closing apps if they appear broken. Apple says as much on its official support page, noting, “You should close an app only if it’s unresponsive.” There’s long been an assumption that regularly closing smartphone apps helps conserve battery life and reduce memory usage. This held some weight many years ago, but today, it’s no longer a necessity. In fact, it’s better for your iPhone 13 not to close apps like this.
The iPhone 13 has built-in tools to automatically manage background apps so that they aren’t taking up unnecessary battery or memory resources. It was designed with the intent of running multiple apps at once, so going through. And manually closing them all the time is mostly redundant. Furthermore, not every app that appears in the multitasking menu is actively running on the iPhone. As Apple explains on another support page, “After you switch to a different app, some apps run for a short period of time before they’re set to a suspended state. Apps that are in a suspended state aren’t actively in use, open, or taking up system resources.”
That should be the biggest takeaway from this article. If an application is running slowly, completely frozen, or acting up in any other way, closing the app. Outside of those situations, however, there’s no need to regularly do this. Keep those apps open, only close them if you absolutely need to, and your iPhone should run like butter.
