The only exception to this rule is if an iPhone app has “Background App Refresh” toggled on. It just sits in your iPhone’s memory awaiting reactivation. When you’re not using an app, it exists in a kind of purgatory it’s neither here nor there basically.

If an app isn’t displaying on your iPhone’s screen is it technically closed. This means you do not need to close apps on the iPhone 11, iPhone 12, or any iPhone for that matter. Why? Simple: if an iPhone app isn’t displaying on your screen it is effectively dead anyway, aspects of it might be stored in memory, but the app itself is not using ANY of your iPhone’s CPU or battery power – not really, anyway.

And this applies to ALL iPhone models – from the iPhone X to the iPhone 12 and iPhone 13. How do you close apps on the iPhone 12? Or, any post-iPhone X iPhone for that matter? As always, it is A LOT simpler than you think…Ĭlosing apps on the iPhone is the simplest thing in the world, yet many people follow a convoluted process to “close” an app, whereby they go through each individual application and swipe up to close it inside the multitasking carousel.

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