Before I got my Iphone 5 I used to be able to dbl. clk.

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Before I got my I phone 5, a friend showed me this iPhone help for my phone when it started acting off, or slow.
I would dbl. clk. & all these apps would appear at the bottom of the screen and all I needed to do was click on each one
til a negative sign appeared and then clk it off. Then do it again on down the line until all the apps that appeared are gone.
At first I was skeptical, thinking I was deleting all my apps, but when I was promised by my friend that it was a help to my
phones functioning better, I did it, and voila, it worked!!! All my apps were still there, and the funky things my phone had been
doing prior, was all gone!!!!!
My question now, is I don't know how to do the same thing on my Iphone 5, because first, if I dbl. clk, I get Siri, so I gave up
trying to do that trick, but occasionally, the apps along the bottom, will show up like on my previous phone, but, they won't let
me clk them off!!!! I try to keep a hold the app as long as should be necessary, but the minus sign for deleting it, never comes
so I just give up. I have tried to move them too, but nothing. Does anyone else do this, and know how to apply it to their iPhone
5? If nobody knows this particular boot up for their phone, does anyone have any other tricky & easy re-boot or clean up tricks
for the iPhone 5 you can share?? I would be very grateful, because I don't know why, I always seem to have troube with my devices,
but even when this was new, I'd get occasional problems with it, like letters sticking or not wanting to work,,, or the typing becoming
Real Slow,,,, or I swear this is true, using my Siri to text for me, and after a few paragraphs I'd check the message for words to be right,
( because sometimes Siri prints obscure words,) but how about this, you go to check your letter, and it's ALL in SPANISH !!!!! ????
Yes that's right, and not just once,,,
It sometimes shuts off or leaves the website I was on right when I was in the middle of something, of course important,,,,  someone told
me that because I had ALL these problems with my Mac Book that is 4-5 years old, and the poor thing has had to have me,,, a computer
a computer illiterate, for all these years,,,, ( I do try,, as much as I can,) they said that my Mac that has been acting sick since the first week
I bought it, my other devices--( my iPad & phones,) were doomed to get sick as soon as I synced them to my sick Mac. I've always wondered
If this was true,,, so I'd appreciate any feed back on that too, even tho I can't afford a new one so you can save any toss it jokes, LOL .
Sorry for the length of this, thank you to all who read it, and especially those with advice,,,,
Most grateful, sngbrd7

Answer 1

If you are getting Siri when you double tap, then your home button must be sticking. Siri comes up when you hold the home button. Try tapping quickly twice. When that happens, the multi-tasking list comes up and you will see the app icon and then a thumbnail, or reduced size view of the app above it. You put your finger on that thumbnail and swipe upwards with your finger.
For that issue, you might want to do a reset of the phone. Hold the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. The phone will reboot. This will not affect your data.
To be honest, your novel is a little difficult to read, and I think you put too much information in there, and a lot of it is unnecessary. Be to the point and just add information necessary to understand the issue.