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How to auto shut down music apps running in the background?
I noticed in the last couple of days that the battery drains somewhat faster. Finally find out that it was one of my music apps. Again.
Not the first time it happened to me and I think it happens to many of us. It’s very annoying. I used to take care to shut the apps down, but sometimes I forget.
So the question is that is there a way to automatically shut down music apps running in the background? For example after 30 mins of inactivity to prevent them running for hours, days, etc.
I know that most of the apps have background audio on/off option, which can help, but I’m not looking for this.
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Sorry, no, there is no automatic way to shut down apps.
Hold the power button until the Slide to Power Off appears, release it, then hold the Home button until the Passcode screen comes up.
I think the Passcode screen is new on iOS13. It used to accept Finger ID, but now you have to enter your Passcode.
Anyway, this is supposed to kill all running background stuff, via a soft reboot.
If you ever want to hard reboot, hold Power and Home together until the device reboots, but keep holding. The Apple logo appears, keep holding, the device finally shuts down.
Hit the Power button the restart the device.
@wim
@CracklePot, thanks, I didn’t know these. However sounds like “carpet bombing” the apps
@CracklePot 's first comment about clearing memory is especially important because even if you force-quit some apps they don't always quit completely. It's a good idea to do this every time you end a music making session. After awhile it just gets to be a habit, and will reduce weird app and midi glitches significantly.
Is there away to it on the IPad Pro which has no home button ?
Thanks
Deano
That's trickier. Scroll down a bit in this article to see how to do it when there's no home button:
https://www.iphonelife.com/blog/7032/did-you-know-you-can-refresh-your-idevices-memory-without-rebooting
Thanks Wim
The best option may just be to identify the worst offending apps (by looking in Settings => Battery for the ones marked with Background Activity), and make a habit of quitting them manually after use. iFretless Guitar is a big one for me.
yep. Force-quit is something like remembering to put your zipper up - just has to become a habit.
@3699CD. Quickly tap and release one of the volume buttons then the other (doesn’t matter what order.)
Then hold the power button down until the iPad goes dark and the Apple logo appears. Release the power button and you are rebooted.
I do this then shut it off everytime before connecting to my audio interface.
iPad Pro 11.
This is a good thing to know. There seem to be a lot of quirks to iOS that it takes a while to pick up on, coming from desktop land.
I’m fucked 🥺
I found that MidEast Drummer used 80% of my battery over the course of a day and a night after a session. I'd thought I'd done the right quit procedure after using it within AUM. What a pain in the neck to have to force quit anything. Is this a fixable bug in certain apps that we can all identify so we know to do the hard reset after using these apps? E.g. MidEast Drummer and iFretless Guitar have been identified so far. This is the first time I've come across this issue, though probably not the last.
From what I've read, it's an iOS problem and is unlikely to be fixed since IAA is depreciated. It can happen with any (IAA) app.
What is force quit?
Force-quit is simply forcing an app to close. Double-tap the home button (if you have one) find the app, and swipe-up. I'm not sure how it works for devices without a home button.
for devices without a home button: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/close-apps-on-iphone-x-in-ios-12/
Username checks out.
And as we have learned, force quit doesn't always quit the app entirely especially if you used AUM or AB to "launch" the app, so that it doesn't appear in multi-tasking (the screen that shows when you swipe up).
Yep. Suck it up 'n deal with it. That's the iOS way.
Doesn't bother me to have to go through a few hoops. I play guitar and have always been used to having to do inconvenient little things like tuning the damn thing. But I can understand how it bothers others.