Ability to actually close an app needed

A few days ago there was a thread started about how to actually close an app. Most of the responses were "Why do you need to?".
Well I found a reason. Was reading the NY Times app and it completely froze on two different occassions. Now if the Home button was still closing apps - or if there was another way to close apps - I would not have had to do a full power down. Because now the app would only "minimize" - at least that is what Windows users call it - and would only reopen to it's previous frozen state. So we do need a way to actually close an app.

Was reading the NY Times app and it completely froze on two different occassions. Now if the Home button was still closing apps - or if there was another way to close apps - I would not have had to do a full power down.
The app may already be closed.
The task bar shows all app recently opened, even if they are not still running.
You may have to power down anyway.
To remove items from the Task bar (whether they are running or not)...
Double tap Home. Tap and hold on one of the icons in the task bar until they jiggle, then tap the X in the top left of the icon to close and remove it from the task tray.

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Dear Dominic
Brilliant reply. Simple English. Simple to follow instructions. And it worked immediately, first time.
Why couldn't the Apple and Adobe corporations get their programming right first time? We spend billions of UK pounds and US dollars with them. They reply with incompetent programming such as this, and arrogance to their customers in issuing faulty systems without doing the most rudimentary checks.
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Does EVERY app need to remain open?!

Multitasking can be pretty cool on the iPhone - but is there any way to close an app completely rather then be forced to have EVERY app remain open?
For example, I may check a text message.
I press the home button to exit, but then need to click the home button twice to actually close the app from the multitasking bar.
Why cant I just close the app for good?
Would it be that difficult to have an option where you have the choice to either keep the app open, or terminate it completely?!

Multitasking has been supported with the iPhone since day one, but 3rd party apps could not run in the background until iOS4.
It is not a multitasking bar. It is a fast app switching and recently used apps bar. All apps - the included apps and 3rd party apps available in the fast app switching and recently used apps bar are not running in the background, so there is no need to be constantly removing apps from the fast app switching and recently used apps bar. Removing the Messages app from the recently used apps bar accomplishes nothing. It does not quit or close the app since the app always remains open in a suspended state for when a new message is received.
With 3rd party apps, the overwhelming majority of 3rd party apps will continue to be quit when pressing the home button to leave the app since there is no reason or benefit for the majority of 3rd party apps to be running in the background.
Some 3rd party apps such as a game will be placed in a suspended state when leaving the app so when returning to the game you can begin the game again where you left off instead of having to re-launching the app and beginning the game again from scratch. An app placed in a suspended state is not using any processor cycles or battery since it is suspended - open but not running in the background.
A few apps - very few apps such as a music streaming app and a GPS navigation app will run in the background when leaving the app.
Would it be that difficult to have an option where you have the choice to either keep the app open, or terminate it completely?!
This is up to the 3rd party developer for an app that includes the option to run in the background, which are few and far between.
This link explains how this works quite well.
http://whenwillapple.com/blog/2010/04/19/iphone-os-4-multitasking-explained-agai n/
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Why did iso7.1.1 change the ability to see your apps when you use four fingers to partly close the app your in. In 7.1 you could use four fingers to partly close a app and see all the apps on that home screen. I used this all the time to check the date

Why did ISO 7.1.1 change the feature where you could use four fingers to close an app and see if he other apps on your home screen as you were closing an app. This was the handiest feature I thought because I could partially close the app I was working in and see the date or other things on my home screen and then released the four finger position and be right back to the app I'm working in. Please change this in the next update back to the way it was!!!!!

I get the multitasking list (all prior apps, scrollable) and can switch to an app, swipe up to force it closed instead of "at rest" and can click back to the originating app in the same place i was prior to the swipe,

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Thanks Rashmi for your reply. Is there any other way to do so? Actually I am trying to automate the actions of an app where launching and subsequent exiting of an app is a test case.
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Close all apps at once?

Hi,
Any way to close all apps running with one fell swoop? Keyboard command for example? Thanks

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tell application "System Events"
set quitList to name of processes whose background only is false
end tell
repeat with anApp in quitList
if anApp is not in {"Finder"} then
tell application anApp
quit
end tell
end if
end repeat

Close all apps

is it possible to close all apps quickly or all at the same time, clear the task bar quickly
if not how do I suggest this as a feature ?
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I've noticed if the "task bar" has a lot in it the batter life can be reduces to almost half.
No, something else is making your battery life reduce. The apps shown in the "Recently Used Apps" list (it's not a task bar) are not all running, and most of them are not even in memory.
The only apps that continue to "run" in the background (potentially using up battery) are GPS apps, ones that play audio, and VOIP apps. Other apps are frozen in memory and are doing nothing until you switch back to them.
See: http://developer.apple.com/technologies/ios/whats-new.html#multitasking
As I already mentioned, if the OS needs more RAM it will automatically close the least recently used app.
secondly I like to have things neat and closed down
Why? You can only actually see 4 apps in this list at any one time. Just don't scroll it to the left and you'll only ever see 4 apps.
this would save me a tone of time every day.
Not going through the pointless process of removing all the recently used apps would also save you a ton of time every day.
also a lot of people seem to be askign for it.
That's because they haven't bothered to learn what the Recently Used Apps list is, and how multitasking works in iOS.
why would you not want it
Because, as I said, it serves no function. If it was necessary to remove all apps from this list (to keep the phone running well, for instance), Apple would've provided a function to do it. They haven't. I don't want Apple wasting time adding unnecessary features to my iPhone. That's why.
You have to understand that this is not a "task bar". Every app you see there is not a running "task". Only GPS, audio playing and VOIP apps can actually do something in the background. All others are either frozen in memory, or not even there at all, just listed as a "recently used app".

Is it possible to close all apps in one one click?

Is there a simpler way of closing all apps on your iphone than doube-clicking the home button and then closing each one individually? I don't see a "close all apps" option anywhere. Sometimes I find myself with 20 apps open all at once and it's tedious to close them all one at a time.

Another concern is power consumption; I have been told by friends with "modified" iPhones that they still use more power if not closed out. They claim that their battery lasts longer when their alotted memory scope is smaller. I just need some fuel for dispute since I feel that the memory has the same power consumption whether it is 'holding' useable data or not.
Thanks

Do I have to run Apps in b/round? - How to "Close an App" quickly?

1. Is there any way to "toggle off" background Apps? I have no need to keep newspapers, books, games, etc running in the back only to have to "Double tap the home button, hold the icon till it wiggles, tap the negative sign, close the bottom panel" - useless wate of time.
2. If no, any shorter way to close an app other than the method described above?
How about just flick up on the Home screen to get to the running apps bar (what do you call that bar anyway?) instead of having to click the home button twice?
(You wouldn't believe how much noise that stupid button makes when it clicks when your partner is sleeping and you are reading in bed!)
3. At the very least can't Apple just make the background Apps already have the little negative sign on them when they come up (like the close program "x" PC programs now have)? It would at least save the "hold till it wiggles step".
4. Don't even get me started on the Mute button that only mutes system sounds (which I have turned off anyway) yet makes be do a whole bunch of steps to be able to screen lock! Can you say "user selectable function"?

+1. Is there any way to "toggle off" background Apps? I have no need to keep newspapers, books, games, etc running in the back only to have to "Double tap the home button, hold the icon till it wiggles, tap the negative sign, close the bottom panel" - useless wate of time.+
And unnecessary. Maybe once/week you would want to enter the multitasking tray just in case you have a thousand or so apps in the background.
+2. If no, any shorter way to close an app other than the method described above?+
+How about just flick up on the Home screen to get to the running apps bar (what do you call that bar anyway?) instead of having to click the home button twice?+
Again, there's no reason to close an app.
+(You wouldn't believe how much noise that stupid button makes when it clicks when your partner is sleeping and you are reading in bed!)+
I have to repeat that there's no reason to close an app.
+3. At the very least can't Apple just make the background Apps already have the little negative sign on them when they come up (like the close program "x" PC programs now have)? It would at least save the "hold till it wiggles step".+
I don't have the time to give all the reasons why that would be undesirable.
+4. Don't even get me started on the Mute button that only mutes system sounds (which I have turned off anyway) yet makes be do a whole bunch of steps to be able to screen lock! Can you say "user selectable function"?+
Don't get me started regarding an issue where Apple did exactly what I had hoped they would do.

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I've been mucking about with C# and SQL databases for some time now and I've decided its time to try a serious project. I want to create an application for managing on the job training at work. I have played around the last week with SQLCE and making
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out how to set up the database and I'd like to describe what I've come up with so more knowledgable folks can tell me if its a good or bad path to follow and perhaps point me in a better direction for the bad parts. I'd rather understand what I'm doing and
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Some training happens only once, some (by law or policy) have to be repeated periodically, some need a subset redone due to movement of an employee from one job or facility to another where some, but not all, of the previous training needs to be redone (machinery
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The application could be set up to have every bit of training for a job class organized under that job class but I think it would be more flexible to organize around a specific skill or area of duty.
For example, an ice rink worker needs to know how to operate the refrigeration plant, operate the ice-resurfacer (generically called the Zamboni), perform emergency duties (fire, earthquake, chemical leak, etc), and several other areas of knowledge. One area/skill
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Each topic would be broken down into focused steps - small bite sized chunks that the employee would learn then be tested on that knowledge. As each step is completed the examiner (supervisor or "expert" in that field) marks the step as completed
and records that in the application (might be a weekly or monthly hand-in of books to record progress).
Each job would have several topics they have to know so the topics are organized in what I've ingeniously decided to call a "book" (talk about imaginative!). We have areas where a person in a job class actually has a different knowledge requirement
than the same job class in another area. There are commonalities of course but I don't think it would be good to have every person in a job class expected to complete training in something they aren't doing and in many cases will never be required to do in
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The training definitions would be in three tables: Books, Topics, and Objectives. A book has multiple topics and a topic has multiple objectives.
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The topics table would have an ID primary key, a title, and another longer description field for information specific to that topic.
The objectives table would had an ID primary key, a Topic foreign key, a short description, a long description, a "given" field outlining what the trainee needs and a "denied" field outlining what the trainee can't have (no drawings allowed
when your describing a system).
Later on I want the program to be able to print shirt pocket sized booklets for trainees that contains short descriptions and larger OJT manuals that have all the details that trainees can refer to.
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to actually delete them in case they come back at some later date). If not a deleted field then a "former" employee table that an employee is copied to when they leave.
Several relations tables would be created when a book is assigned to an employee. I haven't quite figured out exactly what to use which is why I chose now to post this. Some direction from here could save a lot of headache later. The relations tables would
contain only "current" books - ones that are still in progress.
I was thinking of EmployeeBook, BookTopic, and TopicObjective.
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I'd also thought of making a unique key on EmployeeID and BookID but quickly realized some books may have to be assigned many times (WHMIS etc).
BookTopics would have a primary key of BookID and TopicID - cant think of any more fields here.
TopicObjective would have TopicID and ObjectiveID as well as a status field (three values - not complete, complete, not applicable) and an examiner ID field (for who signed off on the objective).
Once a book is completed I was thinking of deleting it from the relational tables and creating an entry in an archive table - no relations, everything would be the full text so if the training data is changed it won't change the completed training records.
The indexes would be whole names and any reporting would have to be grouped by book name, topic name, etc.
So thats the general idea. I'd dearly love any suggestions or advice people have. What sounds reasonable to me might be recognized as a fool's errand by someone with actual competence in database programming. I'll work on specifics once I know I'm not running
full tilt without a flashlight down a blind alley in the dark.
Thanks for getting through the entire post 8)

Hi Ghidera,
From my point of view, there is no need to design the BookTopic table. You can create a EmployeeID filed in the TopicObjective table, then
create a foreign key on the column EmployeeID
and reference the column EmployeeID in the EmployeeBook
table. Also you need to create foreign key relation from EmployeeBook table to Employees table and Books table.
Besides, you should create a foreign key on a column in Topics table and reference the column ID in the Books table.
Thanks,
Lydia Zhang
Lydia Zhang
TechNet Community Support

Is there a way to close background apps on my iPhone 3G running iOS 4.2.1? I'm getting crazy!!!

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I just want to close an app!

So I am in an app, I want to close this app so I quit it once by pressing my home button but then I have to double click the home button, hold my finger down on the icon and close it again by tapping that tiny red dot! Is there no easier way?

There is no need to close apps. The OS will do that itself if it needs to. It seems you may not have fully understood how multitasking and the *Recently Used Apps* list works in iOS4.
Here's quick overview:
"Multitasking" in iOS4 works in 2 ways:
1) If the app uses iOS4's "Fast App Switching" then when you press the Home button, the app is frozen in memory, allowing you to switch back to it instantly via the *Recently Used Apps* list or Homescreen, and it will not have to reload and your position in the app will be remembered.
2) If the app uses one of the new iOS4 multitasking services (i.e. Background Audio, Background Location, Voice over IP or Task Completion), then when you press the Home button, those things will continue in the background, while you switch to and use another app.
When you double-press the Home button, you are showing a list of *Recently Used Apps* which can either be:
a) Completely not-running at all (mainly in the case of apps not yet updated for iOS4)
b) Frozen in memory, waiting to be instantly switched to
c) Performing one of the 4 multitasking processes in the background.
You do not need to concern yourself with removing (closing) every App from the *Recently Used Apps* list. If the OS needs to close an App to free up memory, it will do it itself.
Here's the relevant page from the iOS 4 manual:

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