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Are you a serial app closer? Specifically on the iPhone, you're causing your phone to work harder and drain your battery life.

Officially, Apple says “You should close an app only if it’s unresponsive.”

Despite what you would think about for conventional wisdom, closing apps in your iPhone or iPad is going to make the app pull a new session, costing you precious battery life and making your phone work harder.

When you switch away from an app, the app enters a suspended state, and iOS automatically frees up CPU cycles and RAM that were devoted to running the app. iPhone’s automatic resource management is so good that you never need to worry about an app paused in the background slowing down the app you’re using in the foreground.

Stop Closing Apps on Your iPhone If you constantly close apps on your iPhone while attempting to speed things up or save battery life, you’re doing the opposite and making your iPhone perform worse. Here’s why.

LPT (Life Pro Tip) of the day:

Hit Ctrl+Shift+T (or Cmd+Shift+T for Mac users) to reopen a tab you accidentally closed. This works for Chrome OR Safari and probably Firefox too.

Now go be better!