Help How do delete recent apps

[rcyphermd]

When I touch the icon at the bottom, all the recent apps are listed. On the S8, you close them all with one touch. Can you do that on the Pixel?

 

[codesplice]

You can swipe them away individually, but no, you can't clear them all at once.

 

[rcyphermd]

That's too bad.... Cool feature with s8

 

[codesplice]

Why would you need to remove all the apps from that list?

 

[rcyphermd]

Speeds up the phone. Saves battery

 

[codesplice]

Speeds up the phone. Saves battery

Nope. Note that it is RECENT apps, not RUNNING apps. That's just a list of static thumbnails representing applications which you've used. The list persists after a reboot, too.

There is zero correlation between an app appearing in the Recents view and it actually running in the background.

Even if there was, obsessively killing background apps is a bad thing. It interferes with the process lifecycle management already built into Android and can actually make the phone work harder.

 

[Brian706]

You can actually clear them all at once. If you swipe down so you're at the very top of the recent apps, there is a clear all option.

 

[rcyphermd]

Weird....I cannot get mine to do that!

 

[rcyphermd]

oops... I got it....thanks!

 

[codesplice]

And I learned something today - thanks @Brian706!

I still maintain that it's completely unnecessary from a performance standpoint, but at least there is a way to clear those if you just don't like the clutter.

 

[Hadron]

Yeah, I'd never noticed that either.

But I don't think I've ever used that option, even back when I got my first Android in 2010, so I'd also barely noticed it's absence.