iPhone: close apps - how it works

If you want to close apps on your iPhone completely, pressing the home button is not enough. We'll show you how to do it instead.

Close iPhone apps: when it helps and when it doesn't

The operating system on iPhone is getting smarter, even when managing your apps. If you do not use an app for several minutes, it will automatically shut down in the background.
The current status is saved so that the app can continue at the same point the next time it is started. If you close an app immediately after use, the app virtually crashes.
Although this is not harmful, especially with slightly older devices, closing the apps immediately leads to longer loading times and a slightly higher battery consumption the next time the app is started.
If the apps have been closed for a long time, you can only delete your app history by closing the apps. The apps have already ended themselves. If your iPhone is currently very slow or there are other problems, it is worth closing the apps directly.

To ensure that the app not only disappears from the field of view, but is also closed, proceed as follows:

Press the home button on your iPhone twice in quick succession.
iOS 9 now changes to the multitasking view, in which all open apps are displayed (see image).
Navigate left or right and find the right app.
Then swipe the preview of the app up and out of the screen. The app is now finished.

Here too, press the home button of your iPhone twice in quick succession.
At the bottom of the screen, a bar opens with all open apps. Navigate left or right to find the right app.
Hold your finger on an app in the bar until all apps start to wiggle.
You can now close it using the red minus symbol in the left corner of the app.

Next, read how to put individual apps into folders.