![]() ![]() But it’s not going to give you any extra battery life, or speed up your phone’s performance in any appreciable way. If you want to Marie Kondo your phone’s background apps, feel free - it certainly doesn’t hurt to swipe away that untouched game of Candy Crush from a certain dark period of your life. If running apps in the background truly ruined your phone’s battery, both Apple and Android phones would be shutting them down automatically like it was an episode of 30 Rock. Think of it this way: What’s the biggest complaint of every smartphone user? Battery life. It snaps back to life when you select it, but unless it’s something like Spotify that’s still running in the background, those open windows have no effect on battery life. An app in the background of your phone is more like a screenshot of what the app was doing the last time you used it. Phones aren’t like your old Dell desktop or your current web browser, where leaving a resource-heavy page running in the background can slow your computer to a crawl. Closing all of that extra crap has got to help save battery and speed up your phone, right? Open up your phone and it’s entirely possible you can thumb through hundreds of open apps and Google searches (“what day mother’s day 2013 too late?”). Shutting Down All of the Apps Running in the Background Here are some common things you may be doing with your smartphone that are actually kinda dumb. Much like adding olive oil to a pot of boiling pasta ( do not add olive oil to a pot of boiling pasta, by the way), we read bad advice, get told things by people we assume we can trust, or just kind of intuitively feel like certain things have got to be true - until we find out we’ve been led astray. Like anything that’s central to life - food, money, companionship, having at least one binge-able TV show on hand at all times - smartphones get certain myths built up around them. ![]()
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