Why You Shouldn't Actually Close The Apps On Your Phone

Somehow closing apps is super soothing, you just feel like your making your phone that much more efficient just by closing all those open apps. It feels like a cleansing, a reset. And you rest easy knowing that with no apps running, your battery’s in great shape! Right? So wrong. 

Both Apple and Google have confirmed that closing your apps does absolutely nothing to improve your battery life. In fact, Hiroshi Lockheimer, the VP of Engineering for Android, told Wired that it might make things worse.

This is because apps that are already in memory open quickly, rather than having to fully start again; it’s like waking your computer from sleep rather than rebooting it completely. You’re better off letting the system work for you rather than forcing it to re-open and re-start everything every time. Closing and re-opening apps makes your phone slower and less coherent.

If you’re into really saving battery, there are other easy things you can do like turning down screen brightness or turning off background refresh for apps. Or even just put the whole thing in Airplane Mode, if you’re feeling real cray. But stop swiping your apps out of view, because it’s not helping. 

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