How do i close apps on iphone

Newer iPhones including the iPhone 14 lineup come with an edge-to-edge display and Face ID support. Hence, there is no Touch ID or physical home button on iPhone 14 and its predecessors. The lack of the home button also notably changes the way how you navigate through your iPhone.

How can I close apps on iPhone 14 without the home button?

Well, you need to use certain swipe gestures to see open apps, close running apps, and exit out of apps on your iPhone 14. The procedure is exactly the same for previous generation iPhones including iPhone 11, iPhone 12, and iPhone 13.

This quick guide shows how to exit apps, see and close background apps, and force close an app on iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro, or 14 Pro Max.

How to exit an app on iPhone 14

To get out of an app and go back to your home screen, simply swipe up from the bottom edge of your iPhone’s screen. Doing so will close the particular app you were running but it may continue to run in the background.

How to see open apps on iPhone 14

Various apps running on your iPhone remain open in the background even when you aren’t actively using them.

If you want to switch between apps or force close an app then you first need to see all open apps. You can easily see what apps you have open on your iPhone from the App Switcher or recent apps section.

To see all your open apps on iPhone 14, follow the steps below.

1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and pause in the middle of the screen. The multitasking view will display all your opened apps including recent ones.
   
2. Swipe right or left through the list of open apps and tap the app’s preview you want to open.
   
   See apps running on iPhone

Alternate Way (Using Back Tap)

You can also use the Back Tap functionality to bring up open apps on your iPhone. This way you can quickly open the App Switcher and access all the open apps by tapping the back of your device. For this,

1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch.
2. Scroll down to the bottom and select “Back Tap“.
3. Go to ‘Double Tap’ and select App Switcher under the System category. You can also assign App Switcher to the ‘Triple Tap’ action.
   
4. Double-tap (or triple-tap) firmly on the back of the iPhone to open or close the App Switcher.

How to force close apps on iPhone 14

There are instances when an app becomes unresponsive or gets stuck on the waiting or loading screen. If this happens, you can simply force stop an app from the App Switcher and open it again.

A force stop or force quit basically lets users kill an app that isn’t responding and close out apps running in the background. It comes in handy when you need to fix a frozen app on your iPhone.

To force quit an unresponsive app on your iPhone 14 or 14 Pro,

1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and pause in the middle of the screen.
2. Swipe right or left and find the app you want to force close.
3. To force close an app, swipe up on the app’s preview.
   
   Force quit an app from App Switcher

NOTE: After force closing, re-open the app if you want the app to run in the background and check for updates.

How to close apps on iPhone 14 all at once

Can I close all apps on my iPhone 14?

Though you can close background apps on iPhone 14, iOS offers no way to clear all open apps on an iPhone or iPad. Therefore, you cannot close all apps at once on iPhone 14 or any other iPhone. You can, however, force close individual or multiple apps in one go with gesture-based navigation.

To close multiple apps on iPhone 14 or 14 Pro, swipe up from the bottom and pause in the center of the screen. The App Switcher will now display all the open apps. Now place three fingers on three different app previews at the same time and swipe up to close all three apps at once.

Closing an app is a sure way to fix it if it becomes unresponsive on any Apple-branded handset, but how exactly does the process work on the iPhone 13? Modern smartphones have come a long way in recent years. Displays are larger and brighter, processors are vastly more powerful, batteries last longer, etc. For all the improvements we've made, however, that's not to say phones are perfect.

Even if someone has the latest and greatest device, there's always a chance for things to go wrong. Maybe a software update caused an application to misbehave. Perhaps something broke with the touchscreen, and it's no longer responding. Today's phones are generally more reliable than ones that were available a few years ago, but every now and then, they can still act wonky.

SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY

Related: Does The iPhone 13 Need A Screen Protector?

For a lot of users, one of the most basic troubleshooting tips is closing an application. Most people use a lot of apps on any given day. Sometimes, it can be a good idea to go through these apps and close them so they aren't constantly running in the background. To do so on the iPhone 13, the process is as follows – from the iPhone 13's home screen, swipe up from the bottom of the display, hold your finger there until you feel a small vibration, swipe horizontally to see all the open apps, and then swipe up on any app in this list to close it. This works on all iPhone 13 models, including the regular iPhone 13, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max.

Close Multiple Apps On iPhone 13 At Once

Users who have switched to an iPhone 13 from an Android phone might be wondering why it isn't possible to close all open apps at once. After all, on Android, this is pretty easy. All users need to do is open the app switcher and tap on the 'Clear all' button to close all running apps. It's easy and convenient, and annoyingly, it's just one of those features that the iPhone doesn't offer. However, there is a little trick that can be used to close more than one open app at a time.

On your iPhone 13, swipe up from the bottom of the display and hold until the open apps are displayed. Now, instead of swiping up on apps individually, swipe up on the screen with three fingers to close three open apps at once. With some practice, it's even possible to close four apps at once using four fingers, although this will require a bit of maneuvering. The three-finger swipe works seamlessly though, and is the quickest way to shut all the open apps on an iPhone 13.

When To Close Apps On Your iPhone 13

Closing apps is easy enough, but this also raises an important question. When is it a good idea to close applications on the iPhone 13? In almost every situation, you should only be closing apps if they appear broken. Apple says as much on its official support page, noting, "You should close an app only if it’s unresponsive." There's long been an assumption that regularly closing smartphone apps helps conserve battery life and reduce memory usage. This held some weight many years ago, but today, it's no longer a necessity. In fact, it's better for your iPhone 13 not to close apps like this.

The iPhone 13 has built-in tools to automatically manage background apps so that they aren't taking up unnecessary battery or memory resources. It was designed with the intent of running multiple apps at once, so going through and manually closing them all the time is mostly redundant. Furthermore, not every app that appears in the multitasking menu is actively running on the iPhone. As Apple explains on another support page, "After you switch to a different app, some apps run for a short period of time before they're set to a suspended state. Apps that are in a suspended state aren’t actively in use, open, or taking up system resources."

That should be the biggest takeaway from this article. If an application is running slowly, completely frozen, or acting up in any other way, closing the app and re-opening it is a good solution. Outside those situations, however, there's no need to regularly do this. Keep those apps open, only close them if you absolutely need to, and your iPhone 13 should run like butter.

How do you close all the open apps on an iPhone?

How do I close running apps?

Should I force close apps on iPhone?