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Closing Apps is Unneccessary?

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http://www.businessinsider.com/stop-swiping-up-on-iphone-apps-2015-6

If this is true then why do I see so many people advising me to close unused apps in order to make the audiobus/etc. workflow operate more smoothly? Like, doesn't AudioCopy operate in the background & drain battery?

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  • thusthus

    We musicians are often an exception to the rule, though, in my experience, I only need to close apps that are in an active "state" rather than merely open (e.g.., responding to MIDI when I don't want them to).

  • firejan82firejan82

    Not true.

    Apps in the background do drain battery and use up cpu maybe some less than others but they do.

  • High5deniedHigh5denied

    I close em, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. My son does too, it's like an OCD thing. We can't handle open unused apps in the background. Gotta swipe em away.

  • solador78solador78

    Closing apps makes a huge difference in ios7. Huge.

  • EgzEgz

    @High5denied said:
    I close em, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. My son does too, it's like an OCD thing. We can't handle open unused apps in the background. Gotta swipe em away.

    LOL!

  • thusthus
    edited June 2015

    With respect to my forum-mates, "open" apps (ones that appear when you double-press Home) do not normally drain the battery. iOS is fundamentally different than traditional operating systems in this respect. An app must be specifically designed to run in the background (navigation, background audio, etc.) to drain the battery when not being used.

    Notifications, on the other hand, do have the potential to drain the battery and should be turned off in Settings if not needed. These run in a separate thread than the app.

  • GregGreg

    @firejan82 said:
    Not true.

    Apps in the background do drain battery and use up cpu maybe some less than others but they do.

    Agree.
    It may be true for some apps, like safari, if you reopen it it often has to reload the last page. But it sure is not true for all apps.

    I remember one time forgetting to close Korg gadget before I went to sleep. My battery was at 99%. The next morning my battery was more than half empty.
    It was on standby! Standby normally doesn't drain your battery that fast.

  • thusthus
    edited June 2015

    @Greg said:
    I remember one time forgetting to close Korg gadget before I went to sleep. My battery was at 99%. The next morning my battery was more than half empty. It was on standby! Standby normally doesn't drain your battery that fast.

    Yep, Korg gadget is designed to run in the background, so I can see how that could happen. Closing instruments and background-audio-producing apps makes sense.

  • Diode108Diode108

    Please close Diode-108 when you're not using it, if you have Background Audio on.

  • knewspeakknewspeak

    Don't know if it still happens but IAA used to call whatever app it was using as a generator/instrument and fail to close the connection when you exited the app that made the initial call, used to show up in my monitor app still in the background, don't know if they were using battery, but they used memory resources.

  • [Deleted User][Deleted User]

    yeah, this only applies to apps that don't run background processes (unlike most audio apps which do). reminds me of the recent WSJ article where the author claimed that apple should stop making desktop computers because they don't matter. tech pundits don't "know anything"

  • null____voidnull____void

    I noticed I can turn off background operations for AudioCopy in the settings, anyone know if that stops its resource draining? I'm obsessive about shutting it down which becomes annoying when it has to open again two minutes later...

  • eustressoreustressor

    @High5denied said:
    I close em, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. My son does too, it's like an OCD thing. We can't handle open unused apps in the background. Gotta swipe em away.

    Me, too. Drives me nuts when another family member has 19 apps open in the background, I'll go in there and chastise as I swipe the clutter away.

    For audio production, it just seems like a best practice. Just like a hard reboot before starting a serious recording session.

  • SebastianSebastian

    Definitely close music apps you don't need running. Background audio can keep apps alive and if they don't have the recording flag set there's not even a red bar on top of the screen notifying the user of it.

  • null____voidnull____void

    @eustressor said:
    Me, too. Drives me nuts when >another family member has 19 apps >open in the background, I'll go in there >and chastise as I swipe the clutter >away

    When my mom gave me her ipad there were 54 apps needing updating.

  • eustressoreustressor

    @rhcball said:

    When my mom gave me her ipad there were 54 apps needing updating.

    shudder, wince, twitch

  • JohnnyGoodyearJohnnyGoodyear
    edited June 2015

    I wish my mum would give me her iPad. Lucky bugger.

  • null____voidnull____void

    @JohnnyGoodyear said:
    I wish my mum would give me her iPad. Lucky bugger.

    She upgraded to an Air 2 solely because it was lighter.

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