Improve battery life, help phone from freezing and improve speed, and general health of the phone.

Question

Make sure you are force closing your applicaitions on a regular basis. Since the phone has multi-tasking your apps and anything you open on your phone is constantly running in the background untill you go in and force close them. This slows the phone down and causes the battery life to deplete greatly. Going in and force closing the apps on regular basis helps alot.
You can do this by going to the home screen and double tap the home button, tap and hold on the first application that pops up untill it starts to shake, then press all the red circles that come up, that is how you force close the apps.
This works on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.

Answer 1

"Since the phone has multi-tasking your apps and anything you open on your phone is constantly running in the background untill you go in and force close them. "
Not true.  Very few apps run in the background and those that do are managed by the iphones software.
"You can do this by going to the home screen and double tap the home button, tap and hold on the first application that pops up untill it starts to shake, then press all the red circles that come up, that is how you force close the apps.
All of those apps are not open.  Most are not.  This is the recently used apps bar.  These apps have simply been used recently, they are not open as a rule.
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