Well, it certainly does not. You must have been believing this myth due to the confusion if the app is open in the background, we think it is running. Apps open in the background makes it easy to relaunch the app, then opening the app from the start. The background apps are not hogging as much as resources as they are assumed to be.
Important resources are accessed by the apps when they are running in the foreground, mostly location tracking, playing audio or downloading or uploading a file. It is the same for whether you have Android or iOS.
If we talk about facts, closing a background app drains more battery. When you quit an app for good, you consume a percentage of resources and battery for clearing RAM and closing the app. Furthermore, whenever you will open the app, you will use certain device resources, which will increase battery usage.
Not only closing background apps will save much data, for that you need to customize background data settings whether it is Android or iOS. As some of the apps installed on your system use data even if they are not open. Background data is what apps use to check for notifications. That is why if you disable background data, you will not get any notifications until the app is open.
Although, if you want to improve the battery life of your smartphone, closing apps is not the solution. We have listed some of the tips to enhance the battery life of your smartphone.
For some inexplicable reason, most of us have this habit of forcibly closing background apps on our phones. We think that by doing this we are saving our Android phone or iPhone's battery and resources. We could not be more wrong.
When you switch from one app to another, on an Android phone or iPhone, and leave a bunch of apps "running" in the background they actually don't consume a lot of battery life or processor power as you may think, right? Well... WRONG!
That's Hiroshi Lockheimer, Senior VP of Platforms & Ecosystems (Android, Chrome, Chrome OS, Play) at Google, weighing on the issue of whether Android users should forcibly close their smartphone's apps or not. He reckons the Android OS is smart enough to know when an app is in use and when it's in the background and needs to be suspended.
Lockheimer is not alone, his views are shared by Apple's iOS chief, Craig Federighi. He actually responded to an Apple user who emailed Tim Cook to ask him if he closed background iPhone apps and if doing so was necessary to enhance battery life.
Craig Federighi's response to the Apple user was "No and no". Granted, not very descriptive, but it's telling, nonetheless. Here is the thing, both Android and iOS are sophisticated enough to prioritize critical device components like battery life or memory, when it's intelligently suspending background apps. In fact, when both these OSes suspend apps in the background, they only save the last image of the app in the phone's memory, so that it can quickly launch it if the user goes back to the app.
The only time you should forcibly close a background app is when it isn't responding.
It will not run in the background as you think. OS starts to do its multitasking algorithm to suspend apps from consuming power from the battery and processor. So, apps will be idle in the background and only the image of that present screen on the app is stored. It won't eat a lot of power.
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