4 apps that are quietly destroying your smartphone
Update: 2025-10-29
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Before I get started, it's important to clear up a persistent misconception about smartphones: the notion that background apps can consume too much memory and processor power, just as they can on a Mac or PC. While it's true that some phone apps are more demanding than others, Apple and Google are well aware of this, and have designediOS and Androidto manage background apps automatically. There's no need to close all the unused items in your app switcher -- they're being paused or closed as needed. In fact you could actually make things worse by doing this, forcing paused apps to reload from scratch, and interrupting essential tasks like fetching email.
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