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Apple employee reveals surprising reason why you shouldn't close apps on your iPhone

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Published 20:37 23 Apr 2025 GMT+1

Apple employee reveals surprising reason why you shouldn't close apps on your iPhone

Save the swiping for Tinder, eh?

Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck

An Apple employee has advised on why you should always leave your apps 'open' or risk using 'more data'.

A TikToker has revealed what happened when he went on a trip to the Apple store, warning others not to 'close' their iPhone apps after being left 'mind blown' by what an employee revealed it actually does to your phone.

The social media user who goes by the name Fordy Lip Sync took to the platform on April 17 to reveal: "Mindblown. I just went to the Apple store, had an issue with my phone, a kind man there fixed it - the technician guy, brilliant.

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"I was closing all my apps down and he went: 'Don't close your apps'.

"I went: 'You what?'"

And, well, prepare for your mind too to be 'blown'.

The Apple employee reportedly told the iPhone owner by closing his apps down he was actually using 'more power' and 'more data'.

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Instead, the Apple employee advised: "Just swipe away from them. Leave them open. They just freeze them.

"Every time you close your apps, it uses data and battery to open them back up again."

The TikToker added the employee noted you could even 'leave hundreds of them open' and 'people think they're doing stuff in the background but they're not, they're just sitting there frozen'.

He questioned: "How am I only just finding this out?"

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And he wasn't the only one to be left thinking the same thing, however, that's not to say people were convinced.

One social media user responded: "But my phone doesn’t feel clean then."

"But it’s mad annoying seeing my them all open," a second wrote.

You apparently shouldn't swipe up and delete app history (Getty Stock Images)
You apparently shouldn't swipe up and delete app history (Getty Stock Images)

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However, another said: "I always leave my apps open and also have 410 tabs open on safari my phone works fine."

And to the nay-sayers? Well, one user wrote: "Work for a network and confirm it doesn’t use more power or data. You’ve been lied too!"

"As a former Apple employee, this is correct," another added.

And indeed the advice follows on from Apple's own advice on its discussion forum, the company breaking it down even further: "When your recently used apps appear, the apps aren’t open, but they're in standby mode to help you navigate and multitask."

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Basically, apps fall into a sort of suspended state where they aren't 'actively in use, open or taking up system resources' and by forcing them closed, you simply have to use more energy to re-open them, Apple advising to only 'force an app to close if it's unresponsive'.

Featured Image Credit: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Topics: Apple, Phones, Technology, TikTok, iPhone

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible and is such a crisp fanatic the office has been forced to release them in batches.

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