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iOS Tip: Quitting Apps When Necessary
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
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I have a quick iOS 4 tip concerning quitting apps when it's necessary to do so. Sometimes it's necessary to actually quit a running app because it's not running correctly (like if its not getting proper network updates), and until yesterday I didn't know if it was possible to selectively quit an app because of the way iOS selectively keeps apps running in the background. It can be done!
Here's how to do it:
1. Double-press the Home button to bring up the app switcher dock;
2. Press and hold on the icon of any of the apps in the switcher dock for a few seconds;
3. You'll then see all the icons on the switcher shake and gain a red close button, which will allow you to close any app you want.
This is a very intuitive way to close apps when needed, but I didn't realize it was possible to do because I've never seen it discussed before, and I thought Apple may have simplified things so much that such an option wouldn't be available.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Moderator  Join Date: Apr 2000
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There is also another way to force quite an app. Hold the power button down until you get the option to shut down the phone. Then hold down the home button. This will force quit the frontmost app and return you to the home screen.
I personally think that the way you outlined is preferable, but the other one works on iOS <4 as well.
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The low-end Mac Pro is the most overpriced Mac since the IIvx
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Indeed I use the 1st method Big Mac describes all of the time, because otherwise I can feel Navigon baking my leg for the rest of the day.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Why not just download task killer? 
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2005
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iOS has one for me. Unlike Android...
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Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by mduell 
Why not just download task killer?
Touché! I JUST switched from an HTC Desire to the iPhone 4 and man was it a PITA opening up Task Killer and killing all of the apps that would magically start up on their own in the background. I had my phone rooted and I uninstalled a lot of the bloatware that came on the thing, but it still had a number of apps I wanted to keep that would start up on their own and run in the background. Seemed like I was going through the same process of "killing" these apps every hour or so. So annoying.
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