One of the most frequent questions we’re getting these days is how to close all apps at once — basically how to force quit or kill every app from the new multitasking/fast app switcher dock Apple introduced in iOS 4 for iPhone and iPod touch and iOS 4.2 for iPad.
The short answer is you don’t need to. Not ever. Stop it. Just. Stop.
For the long answer, read on after the break!
Multitasking is more of a marketing terms these days than a technical one. Don’t think of your iPhone as a Windows or Mac OS X machine because it’s not. It isn’t Windows Mobile or even Android either. iOS doesn’t work that way. It doesn’t (most of the time) leave a bunch of rogue processes running in the background that have to be force-quit.
iOS manages all that for you. Most applications, when you exit them, save their state and “go to […]
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