Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Troubleshooting on an iPad. Date: 20 Sep 2024 18:07:00 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 64 Message-ID: References: <_YhHO.166470$kxD8.71765@fx11.iad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net MOe6hHyX/elnIEJdrYrzUQNxvEnF1EjZiixV68MnVJ/c00xFjG Cancel-Lock: sha1:rnsW7vcw9B8o+zP7/K4KjEqcpHw= sha256:ZHI3PIfGi7Pc/Hwgl6O5kHvUXMwUwbnjTRAPyxTTfdE= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Darwin) Bytes: 3679 On 2024-09-20, Alan Browne wrote: > On 2024-09-20 12:41, Jolly Roger wrote: >> On 2024-09-20, Your Name wrote: >>> On 2024-09-20 06:32:47 +0000, Bernd Froehlich said: >>>> On 19. Sep 2024 at 10:06:15 CEST, "John Hill" >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> My son has has asked me: >>>>> >>>>> My iPad is getting slower and slower to the extent that it’s >>>>> making some applications difficult to use. I could try shutting >>>>> down or restarting but my perception is this is a recurring issue. >>>>> Is there any known memory or process monitoring on the iPad to see >>>>> if I have an app that is misbehaving? >>>>> >>>>> I know of none, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything. cAnd >>>>> if there is I assume it would apply equally to the iPd and iPhone. >>>>> >>>>> Any suggestions? I have suggested a power down and restart, and he >>>>> will try that for starters. >>>>> >>>>> Old John. >>>> >>>> You could try if closing all running apps helps. (AFAIK a restart >>>> won´t do that). >>>> >>>> iPad OS SHOULD take care of memory by itself, but I have >>>> encountered some situations where closing all apps helped. >>> >>> The problem with devices is that most people don't close (and don't >>> know how or that they should) apps they aren't currently using, so >>> they can end up with lots of stuff still running. i >> >> This is not the case with Apple mobile devices. You are spreading >> misinformation. > > Well ... > > Suddenly my battery was draining very quickly and I had no idea why. > > Turns out I had unintentionally left a sensor recorder running in > background and (at 5Hz and many parameters) that burned the battery > pretty quick. > > The very helpful Battery status app (Settings) showed me which app was > the bad boy. And I turned off the recording - no need to kick the app > out. > > To be sure the fault was mine. > > But this was a case where a "precautionary kick out" of an app would > have saved me a little frustration. > > Otherwise I rarely deliberately kick apps out. That's a specific type of app that was designed to run in the background indefinitely though. As I said in my other reply in this thread. Most apps do not run in the background indefinitely. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR