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Do you leave unused apps in the dock or close them?

Phoenix777

Phoenix777

Android Enthusiast
Just wondering if you have 2 or 3 apps that you use and check in on every 20 minutes or so, do you close them in between not using them or do you just leave them running so that they're in the bottom in the dock in recent apps?
 
Well my dock doesn't have a recent apps thing (I use a long press on home to enter that).

But no, I never close apps unless they are misbehaving. There's no advantage to doing so: the app will hibernate once it's finished what it was doing, and if the phone needs the memory it will clear the app out itself. Otherwise it uses less power switching back to an app that's sitting in memory than loading it up from scratch, so constantly killing apps actually reduces your battery life rather than saving it, and doesn't help with performance either. So just don't bother is my advice.
 
True...but I noticed sometimes when I leave apps open and not use them they still use battery when I check the settings so I have been closing them out. if I close them completely they seem to disappear from my battery list and settings and not use any battery juice.
 
I close them because it is my phone and when I'm through with an app, I'm through with it. I don't care what Android wants as so far it has not seemed to learn any preferences about which to hold and which to close.

I will close text apps. That way if a new text appears, the ringtone goes off. I can't hear vibration if I'm in another room at home.
 
If it makes you feel better, by all means close them. Any technological benefit will be minimal regardless of what anecdotal evidence you might hear. Just like chicken soup, it might not help, but it couldn't hurt. ;)
 
I tend to close the apps I don't use very much and leave the ones I do use a lot (Textra and email mostly) in the list.
 
I close them, almost religiously so. It's a habit I got into years ago, and my galaxy S6 is practically begging me to keep doing it with the built-in button for viewing recent apps.
 
fixedepsilon said:
I close them, almost religiously so. It's a habit I got into years ago, and my galaxy S6 is practically begging me to keep doing it with the built-in button for viewing recent apps.
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This confused me. If you close the apps like you said, they are no longer in recent apps for viewing...unless we are talking about 2 different things...?
 
Phoenix777 said:
This confused me. If you close the apps like you said, they are no longer in recent apps for viewing...unless we are talking about 2 different things...?
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I meant that having that button makes it so that I'm constantly looking at what's open, which prompts me to kill the ones I don't use (and often the ones I am using accidentally :p)
 
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