Comment by throwaway17_17
1 day ago
I feel so seen right now. My partner complains about me closing apps on my phone consistently. I also have to hold myself back from defragging and continually cleaning up my storage drives.
I too am nearly certain that the positive benefits are approaching nil, but I still feel it should be helpful.
> My partner complains about me closing apps on my phone consistently.
I'd be curious to know the reqson why she would care on her own phone and why it would be an issue on someone else's phone?
At least on iPhone, it basically doesn't do anything. Apple aggressively kills all background apps automatically. the "open" apps in the switcher are almost always just screenshots of previously-open-but-now-closed apps. if it was recent, the latest app or two in the switcher might actually be open, but rarely more than that.
Despite this, many of my relatives have somehow learned this habit of opening the switcher and closing all apps when they are done with them.
i’m convinced the real reason people do this is because they don’t want anyone to see what apps they were using.
Android has always been quite vigilant and is prompt to kill off any app at the MFA login screen while I am consulting the Oracle of Authenticator in another task. Thanks Android!
That being said, I dislike having 3 dozen apps open because I simply can’t quickly find and switch to the ones I’m using. So when I enter a new situation, I swipe all the way left, and Clear All apps, to start over with a tabula rasa.
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iOS has never worked the way you are describing. It's easy to disprove your claim that the app is killed by just switching between different apps you have open. iOS keeps the apps open to make it fast to switch back to them.
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> My partner complains about me closing apps on my phone consistently.
Which one of you is neurotic?
I know it’s a late reply, but the answer is absolutely both of us are exceptionally neurotic. But in completely different ways.
Never too late! =]
When you die, you will leave behind nice orderly contiguous files. It's thoughtful. hehe
After digging through a recently passed relative’s hard drive (the computer barely functioned so I pulled it) and having to search through years of garbage that where never deleted to find the photos, Word documents, and WordPerfect documents my aunt ‘knew’ where stored there somewhere, this is not an insignificant gift to leave my family with.