How to close Apps in iPad, iPhone, and iPad Mini? [Solved]

Another surprise for me in my iPad learning journey was, clicking the Home button doesn't close your iPad apps. If you are a new iPad or iPad mini user like me, who has no background in using any Mac products including iPod, iMac, or iPhone, and coming from classical Microsoft Windows background then you will also need some time to adjust with iOS interface for a common task. When I bring my first Apple product home, an iPad 4G with WIFI. The first thing I did was to set up my Apple id with credit card details to buy some iPad apps because that's one of the main reasons for buying an iPad.

Opening an iPad app is very natural and intuitive, just tap your finger on it, or in simple words click on it (Ahh... I used to word click, which seems unnatural without a mouse). So I learned how to open iPad apps in a few seconds, but it took me a few days to learn How to close iPad apps. 

Since, clicking the HOME button (round button at the bottom center of iPad) only minimizes iPad apps, i.e. they are running in the background, they are not closed. Let's see How to close iPad Apps in 3 steps


3 Steps to close iPad Apps

1) Double click on the HOME button to open the taskbar, if you find it difficult on opening the taskbar on the iPad, see this tutorial.


2) Now you can see all running apps in taskbar as shown below :

How to close iPad Apps


3) Now keep your finger on any of these apps for a longer time, until they start shaking, then you will see a (-) sign on top of all those apps. Now to close iPad Apps just click on those (-) signs, they will be closed. Remember this is similar to deleting iPad apps but clicking on (-) only closes them and doesn't remove them from the iPad.

How to close Apps in iPad and iPad mini


That's all on How to Close IPad Apps guys. Remember, in order to keep your battery charged, it's better to close any iPad apps running in the background, especially if you are traveling and don't get many opportunities to recharge your iPad battery.



How to close running Apps on iPad, iPhone, and iPad mini

From iOS 7, there is a significant change in how you use your iPad and iPhone, one of them is closing running apps. The above-mentioned approach will not work if you have just updated your iPad with iOS7. We faced the same issue when my wife updated our iPad to iOs 7. 

We keep trying to press the home button twice to see these icons but they never appeared, instead, apps appear in the much bigger icon. Suddenly I realized that if you put your finger on the running app and then throw them up, it will be closed. Since we didn't know this trick, our iPad battery keeps getting more exhausted quickly than normal 10 hours. So it looks more simple to close running apps in iOs7, here are the exact steps.

1) Press the home button twice
2) Running apps will appear in the center of your iPad or iPhone screen
3) keep your finger on them and throw them up
4) Center screen will be replaced by the next running apps
5) Keep doing this until you close all the apps you wanted to close.


I suggest always closing unnecessary apps to extend your battery time, otherwise, they will keep running in the background and taking resources like CPU, memory, and battery energy. Though iOS does a good job of not letting background apps consume too many resources, it's always better to close not running apps.




3 comments:

  1. tanks a lot......it helped me a great deal

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  2. Great Tip!
    This will help me save a lot of battery energy.
    Let me share with you a page that I found on Google that your readers can find more tips and guidelines. http://support.bell.ca/Mobility/Products/Apple-iPad-mini-with-Retina-display

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  3. Double clicking the home button on my IPad mini 2 doesn't show a task bar. Is this something I have to enable? Thanks.

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