You may have experienced this a few times: something goes wrong in an application and it isn’t working properly, you close exit the application and open it again to find that it is still in the same bad state that t was in before! This is extremely annoying unless you know how to completely close an application. In causal terms in the iPhone users word we call this “killing an app”.Â
Killing an app and starting it again completely restarts the application. This is extremely useful for situations where the application is acting very strangely. The other use for killing an app is to free up memory on your iDevice. Your iDevice is very much like a normal computer and uses memory for applications that are running. Some of these applications continue to run in the background when you exit the application; this can take up lots of memory that you need for something else.
Killing an app is very easy! follow these directions to kill an app:
1. Press the home button twice quickly
The home button is the only other button than the power button on your iDevice, you can find it on the bottom
You will see all of the programs that you have used recently (this is the multitasking bar, you can use this to quickly change between applications during normal use).
 2. Tap and hold your finger on the application icon you want to close
After holding your finger down on the icon for about 5 seconds, the icons will begin to shake and you will see minus (-) signs next to all of the applications.
3. Tap on the red minus signs of the applications you want to “kill”
This does not delete the application, it just closes the application completely.
In the example all of the applications in the background have been killed.
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Posted by Cody on Feb 11 2012. Filed under How-To, Tips & Tricks. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. 
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