Working with iPhones could be challenging at times. Many people are looking for tutorials to help them setup iPhone two factor authentication or close applications. Here we are going to help yo with the latter issue. iOS generally keeps applications at the background from needlessly eating up battery life or system resources. But sometime things get out of control. An app might stop responding or it might eat up your data. Whenever you felt like you need to close applications on iPhone you can just flick it away.
The steps to close applications on iPhone
First you need to double-press the Home button to open the app switcher. (Don’t just tap it, you should press it.) You’ll get a series of icons and app thumbnails you can swipe through. If you want to switch to another app, simply tap on the app’s icon or thumbnail.
In order to close applications on iPhone click on just swipe up on the app’s thumbnail until you flick it off of the screen. This way you can close one app or all of them. Keep in mind that you do not have to close applications on iPhone unless it’s causing problems. In order to avoid swiping though 30 apps, you can clean out the app switcher every now and then.
If an applications still eats up too much data or battery you can simply turn off background app refresh for that app. First open the Settings tap General, then tap Background App Refresh. Find the troublesome app, the slide the slider next to its name to the “off” position.
Close applications on iPhone x
How to close applications on iPhone x
You know that iPhone x does not have a Home button so in orders to close applications on iPhone x first you need to swipe up from the bottom of the screen – the small line which shows where the X’s ‘virtual Home button’ can be accessed. Keep in mind that swiping up and letting go will take you to the Home screen, so instead swipe up and hold your finger on the screen for a moment. The app switcher screen will appear.
Long-press anywhere on the screen, and after a moment a little red circle with a minus sign will appear at the top left corner of each app. Now you are able to close the applications you want. Therefore, you can swipe up or simply click on the red circle on it.
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