iPhone HowTo

This guide will show you step by step how to close apps on your iPhone, iPad or any iOS device. When you close an App on your iPhone by pressing the home button it does not necessarily mean it has closed, the App could be running in the background. Apps running in the background can eat up battery life, CPU & your iPhone’s memory. The guide below will show you how to view and close background Apps on your iPhone / iPad.

1. Unlock your phone if it’s locked.
2. Double press the home button on your iPhone
3. This will bring up a menu of running Apps at the bottom of your screen, you slide left to see all the running Apps.

   

4. Once you have seen an App you want to close, press and hold your finger over the icon, it should start to shimmer and a red circle with a minus in it will appear in the top left.

   

5. Click in the red circle with a minus in and the App will close.
6. That’s it! All done to exist the menu press the home button again.