Myth: Closing Apps Makes Your iPhone Faster and Saves Battery

This is one of those myths that refuses to die, mostly because it feels like it should be true. You see a bunch of apps in your iPhone’s App Switcher, you swipe them away, and it feels like you just cleaned things up. 

But the iPhone isn’t a PC or Mac; the App Switcher is not a list of apps actively running at full power. In many cases, those apps are completely paused, as iOS is designed to suspend apps so they don’t consume power while you’re not using them while still allowing you to jump back to them instantly.

Force-quitting constantly can actually do the opposite of what you want. When you reopen an app you just killed, your iPhone has to load it from scratch, which takes more CPU and often uses more battery than simply resuming a paused app.

So instead of closing all your apps, focus on only force-closing the ones that need it: apps that are frozen or glitching.