Deleting background apps

How do you delete apps running in the background?
Some of them use a lot of battery power. Really, doesn't anyone
Check these systems before they are released to the public?

Double Tap the Home Button... Then swipe the App Upwards.
From Here > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4211

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Why are deleted apps appearing in Background App Refresh?

I have deleted the apps using iTunes on my computer but two apps, which do not appear anywhere else, have just showed up! I really don't like them being there so any help you can give me as to how to get rid would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance

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HT5137 Iphone 4S with 5 update- deleting running background apps question

I cannot close my open background apps. I have double clicked the button to access my open running apps. I have held my finger on the apps trying to get them to jiggle with an x in the upper right hand corner but it won't work. I can't get the jiggling or the x. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Hi Dilbert.
I hope you are still here
I have an i4S that (I assume had the original software when I received it two days ago. The previous owner told me to upgrade to 7.1 or whatever but I just went straight to 8.1.2 (I believe)
The "Hold-em-down-till-they-wiggle approach worked great until I upgraded.
Even the repetetive stress injury inducing upward swipe doesn't work, I have millions of apps destroying my battery.
Even a restart doesn't help. When I restart all the apps just fire up again.
A little embarrassing actually.
Regards

Multitasking on iPod Touch 4G, running iOS 6.1.2, nearly impossible. Opened, background apps do not seem to stay in memory and must "reload" every time I switch back to them. Also, intense battery drain (imo).

Let's say I'm playing Words with Friends, and also Angry Birds. I may want to go back and forth between the two. When I do so, the app that was in the background needs to reload again. There is no quick access or ability to quickly resume where I left off. And the reloading means that the app restarts from its opening screens...so if I was working on a level, I have to start all over again. And quite often, a game like Angry Birds will lag greatly when I first open it...moving almost in slow-motion.
I don't know if this is typical behavior when playing multiple games, or if I have an issue with my device. I've rebooted and even reset and restored, all to no avail.
There doesn't appear to be as much of an issue if I'm playing one game but also have the music player open, or Safari, Notes, Reminders, etc. Those will resume just fine, though there may be some lag when opening/re-opening them.
So I guess the problem seems to lie within 3rd party apps, and not the apps that are part of the iPod/iOS.
The other problem is battery drain. I do all of my music listening via Bluetooth, so I expect that to have a greater impact than if I were using plugged in headphones, and I have location services turned on. But I have most notifications turned off, all email accounts set to manual and not push, screen brightness turned down and auto brightness turned on, "ask to join networks" turned off, auto-lock is set to 2 minutes but I almost always turn off the screen immediately after setting up my music listening (since I do so at work), volume limit turned on, EQ turned off, sound check turned off,
With these settings, my battery can drain 20% or more within 10-15 minutes of game play. And these are not what I would consider memory intensive games--just Words and Angry Birds.
I've installed (and recently uninstalled) a couple of battery meters from the Apple Store as well--freebies. Carat, Battery Doctor, Battery HD, Battery Magic.
Carat and Battery Doctor seemed to offer the most pertinent and accurate information so the others were uninstalled long ago.
The Accelerate tab in Battery Doctor show the amount of memory in use, and the amount of available memory. The vast majority of the time, the memory in use is approximately 94%. I will occasionally choose to "accelerate" which supposedly frees up memory, but this "bump" lasts only a brief time and I'm not sure it's a great idea.
Even with absolutely nothing open or running, my used memory is generally still above 80%.
Carat, if anyone is familiar with it, shows a J-Score. My J-Score is 17, which means that my performance (according to Carat, anyway) is better than only 17% of the users who have Carat installed. In other words, 83% of people are getting better performance from their devices. It also has "battery hog" and "battery bug" sections. It doesn't detect any hogs or bugs.
I use my iPod Touch in rather limited ways. A typical day consists of approximately 5 hours of music listening via Bluetooth and 30 minutes to 1 hour of playing the aforementioned games. The occasional note and reminder, perhaps a brief check-in with the weather, and that's about it. And wifi is in use only when at home (there is no hotspot at work). Still, I need to charge it every day. I'd be keen to do more with the iPod if I could count on it to last more than a day.
I've read up on multiple forums and blogs for tips on prolonging a battery charge, and believe I've taken everything into account, and applied whatever I could. I've even reset the network settings and try to discharge the battery completely once a month (for supposed battery calibration).
I'm really hoping people can offer some suggestions or comments on whether this is typical behavior or if my battery is going, or even offer some additional tips.
With iOS 7 on the horizon, I'm hoping the upgrade will offer some resolutions (I've read there is better multitasking), but considering how weakly my device performs at this point, I'm not entirely convinced that an iOS upgrade will actually make any improvements.
Thanks a lot for reading.

No, the app does not have to completely restart. It gets shifted in its open state into storage. Similar to how a computer uses the hard disk when it has insufficient memory.
What complicates things is that sometimes memory does not get returned for reuse when you close an app. Thus yo should periodically double click the Home button and "delete" unnecessary apps from the multitasking dock and power off and then back on the iPod.

HT5137 I made a purchase with my debit card on The Simpson Tapped out game, And now my game won't open. It just kicks me out every time I click on it. How do I fix this problem with out deleting my app?

I made a purchase with my debit card on The Simpson Tapped out game, And now my game won't open. It just kicks me out every time I click on it. How do I fix this problem with out deleting my app?

Personally, I would never use a debit card online, for security reasons. If your card gets hacked its your money that is stolen. At least with a credit card it is the card providers money that is stolen.
Anyway, I would delete the app and re-install. If you paid for the app in the first place you will be able to re-install free of charge. Also, the app should allow the in-app purchase to happen again as it should recognise that you have already purchased it previously.
Finally, it might be that the 3G doesnt have as much ram as more recent models of iphone and you may have applications running in the background that are preventing the app to function with the in-app purchase unless you shut down any apps eating all you memory that are running in the background. Shut-down these apps (and the simpson tap out app) by exiting to your home screen and double-tapping the home button to show what apps are running in the background. press and hold any of the open apps until it starts shaking. close all the apps down. exit then re-launch the app.
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WIll apple ever make it so you can delete all apps in multitasking without deleting one at a time?

I think it's annoying when you have to delete a app at a time in the multiask bar. It would be good if they made it so there is a button saying delete all apps in mutlitasking bar. It would make me and probably many other apple users happy. It would save a lot time.

With some notable exceptions like audio apps that actually run in the background, most apps on the task bar are not actually running. They are not actually doing anything, just sitting there in a suspended state until the next time you execute them by bringing them up on the screen. There really is no need nor reason to be constantly clearing them away.

What is a memory alert and how do I shut down background apps?

What is a memory alert and how do I shut down background apps?

It's when the internal memory doesn't have enough space to operate apps or the phone. You should do two things.
1) Double-tap your Home button. You should see a row of apps at the bottom of the screen. Tap on one and hold down until it wiggles. Hit the red x in the upper right of the icon. Do this for all icons. Don't worry - you're not deleting the Apps, you're just shutting them down from multitasking
2) Do a hard reset of your iPhone. Hold down the Home button and Sleep button. Keep both held down until you see an Apple logo.
This should clear the memory.
Good luck!

Told not to Shut off background apps ios 8

During a recent visit to the Apple Store for a warranty, I was told by the employee that I should not be shutting down manually any background apps running. The proper way was to restart my phone periodically and the operating system would take care of the rest. Is there any truth to this I can't see that it's working that way at all.

Apps stay on the list forever (until you clear them), but that does not mean they remain in RAM, and they are not "running in the background." iOS DOES autoclear memory, but not the list. If iOS runs out of the 1 GB of RAM it will delete the least recently used apps to make room for newer ones. If apps do not save data to their database when suspended the data will be lost. Safari does not save open pages, for example, so if it is flushed from memory the cached pages will go away. This is true of many other apps also. So the fact that an app appears on the screen does not mean that it is occupying memory. In addition, apps can expand and contract in size while they are running; when they expand iOS gives them more memory that may not be adjacent to the existing code. Eventually apps get spread over many small segments and leave many "free" segments scattered around. If a new app is loaded and there isn't enough memory for its initial load iOS will move the existing apps around to create a larger single segment to hold the new app (this process is called "garbage collection" and has been a part of all Unix-based operating systems [which includes Windows] for almost 40 years). This results in a launch delay for the app, and can also slow down the keyboard.
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iOS moves apps to the front for your convenience; their position has nothing to do with their priority or where they are in memory. When you double-press HOME while running an app the first app displayed will always be the one you had used just prior to the one you are currently using, then the one before that, down the line.

Old data showing in background app view

When double tapping the home button for the iPhone 6 plus, iOS 8.1.2, I am having issues where apps display old data on all the background apps that pop up. For example, if I have safari open in the background and I want to switch to it from springboard, i double click home to bring up all background apps, and I'll find safari with a webpage that displays old history. However when I click into safari, it'll refresh to the correct/present webpage.
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Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback

IOS 8.0.2 Background App Refresh

I received an iPhone 6 Plus replacement from Apple and restored it from a backup (via iTunes). Everything worked as it should be, but after two days of using the new iPhone I recognised that automatic app updates as well as Background App Refresh are not working anymore.
E.g.:
Apps won't receive automatic updates (Settings > iTunes & App Stores > Updates > on)
Overcast: new episodes no longer get automatically downloaded to my device (Settings > General > Background App Refresh > on)
What I did so far:
I already deleted and reinstalled affected apps (like Overcast)
I changed the settings > turned off and on (background updates etc.); restarted the phone...
Is this a known iOS 8.0.2 issue or do I really have to restore my iPhone again (what I definitely don't want to do)?
Any help is very much appreciated!

The things that I have tried:
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- Created a Gmail account instead of an exchange account (which didn't work previously, due to me not seeing the shared calendar), didn't work.

HT1386 how do you delete Nike+ app. It will not give me the black 'x' to delete it

how do you delete Nike+ app. It will not give me the black 'x' to delete it

Instructions
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Tap the "Settings" app on the iPhone home screen.
2
Place a finger on the iPhone screen, and then move it up on the screen to scroll down the screen. Scroll down until you see Nike + iPod. Tap "Nike + iPod."
3
Tap the "ON/OFF" toggle to the right of Nike + iPod at the top of the screen until "ON" appears with a blue background.
4
Press the "Home" button just beneath the iPhone screen. The Nike + iPod app appears on the iPhone home screen or the next available screen with space for an app.
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How do I delete an app on iPad?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1314

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