“This ritual is useless”: why closing apps on iOS and Android can harm your smartphone

According to experts, forcing apps to close does not affect the battery life of your mobile phone, nor does it increase privacy, since the device continues to collect your data.

Closing all apps on your phone does not save your smartphone's battery, but on the contrary can harm it. This is&written by “UNIAN” with reference to experts.

“Closing background applications will neither increase the speed of the smartphone nor help the battery last longer on a single charge,” — the article says.

Journalists recalled that in 2016, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, Craig Federighi, explained that forcing background apps to close does not affect battery life. From a technical point of view, most background apps are actually “frozen”, and your system simply displays screenshots of them for beauty. The same can be said about Android.

That is, in fact, closing background apps does nothing, since these apps are not actually “running”.

Why is it harmful to close apps on your phone

Closing background apps, on the contrary, can even increase energy consumption. Closing an app and then launching it again requires more resources than resuming it from a suspended state in your “background mode”.

Furthermore, closing background apps does not improve the performance of your smartphone in any way. Operating systems such as iOS automatically manage RAM, ensuring maximum efficiency. And user intervention in this process does not provide any benefit.

From a privacy point of view, forcing applications to close is also ineffective. Apps can still collect your data even if they are closed.

“Thus, this ritual is useless. iOS owners simply waste time trying to close every app, and Android users, although they do it faster, do not receive any benefit,” — the authors of the material emphasized.