Show How to close all apps at once on iPhoneThere is no official function to close all apps at once. But on iPhones with a Home button (iPhone 8 and older) you can use a trick to put all apps into an inactive state at the same time. This way you can prevent apps from working in the background and loading the main memory.
This trick does not make the apps disappear from the app switcher. But if you try to open them, they will start to reload. This shows that they are no longer active and do not use memory. Keep in mind: Once backgrounded, an app is actually completely off, unless there is a problem. Even if you see it in the app switcher, it is usually just a benign screenshot that doesn’t take up any system resources. The widespread assumption that closing all apps on iPhone results in better battery life is therefore untrue. Nevertheless, there are apps that continue to work in the background and collect data – such as navigation apps. In such cases the trick is quite useful.How to close three apps at onceIf you love to have a tidy app switcher, you can close several apps simultaneously with a simple gesture.
You may repeat this procedure as often as you like, effectively closing all of your apps in the shortest amount of time that is possible. Tip: In another article we show you what else you can do, if an app freezes! Even iOS apps occasionally misbehave — they can crash, or freeze, or otherwise stop working. If you’re new to iOS or just haven’t had this happen before, you may not know how to actually quit an app (as opposed to just swiping it off your screen). Here’s how to quit an app and, if you need to, shut down your phone. (We used a phone loaded with a beta of iOS 16, but this will work with earlier versions of the OS just as well.) Quit an app
While there isn’t any way to close all of your apps at once, you can swipe off up to three apps at a time by using the appropriate number of fingers. Otherwise, if you’ve got a lot of apps running, you’ll have to simply swipe them off one at a time. Shut down your phoneIf, for any reason, swiping the app off doesn’t solve the problem, then shut down your phone by pressing and holding the side button and either volume button until you see sliders appear. Drag the one that says slide to power off to the right. (If you have an iPhone with a Home button, instead, press and hold the side or the Sleep / Wake button.) You should then be able to restart it by using the power button. If worse comes to worst and you can’t shut down your phone this way, you can force restart it. If you have an iPhone 8 or later:
Update September 1st, 2022, 10:11AM ET: This article was originally published on June 4th, 2021, and has been updated to add information on force restarting an iPhone. How do I close all running apps at once?Close all apps: Swipe up from the bottom, hold, then let go. Swipe from left to right. On the left, tap Clear all.
How do I close all tabs on iPhone 11?To close all Safari tabs on your iPhone, open the Safari app and then tap and hold the Tabs switcher icon. This is the icon with the two overlapping squares in the bottom-right corner of your screen. Finally, tap Close All XX Tabs to confirm.
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