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You can force quit iOS apps. Double tap home to bring up the menu, then tap and hold the offending app icon. This will bring up the "jiggle" and a kill icon.

sjtgraham 16y ago
Doesn't always work. Spotify on iPhone became irreversibly borked for me once, requiring me to delete the entire app and reinstall it
- masklinn 16y ago
  It does, in your case it seems Spotify utterly corrupted one of its files (since shutting it down completely and restarting it didn't suffice). There isn't much the OS can do then.
  - sjtgraham 16y ago
    That's exactly my point. There is no reset option in the case of a corrupted database or file inside the app bundle.
  - sjtgraham 16y ago
    That's exactly my point. There is no reset option in the case of a corrupted database or file inside the app bundle.
Stormbringer 16y ago
I am aware of force quitting as per your proposed solution, but it doesn't always work, hence the need to remove the app and reinstall it.
- masklinn 16y ago
  If the app can't even re-launch itself, a core support file is corrupted so resume or no resume is irrelevant.
Stormbringer 16y ago
Your 'correction' does not apply. Apps that have crashed are no longer running, and hence force quit will do nothing.
Bud 16y ago
That's not force quit. That's uninstall. To force quit, you stay in the app you are quitting, hold down the power button til you get the power-off bar, then hold down Home til the app quits.
- jbrennan 16y ago
  No, the GP said "Double tap the home button", which brings up the Multitasking tray. If you go into jiggle mode there, you can terminate the app. You'll see a red icon instead of the X used for uninstall.
- Stormbringer 16y ago
  On the multi-tasking versions of iOS, double tapping the home button brings up a strip down the bottom of the screen. You can scroll left and right, and it will show you apps that you have recently run and/or that are still running. There's no real indicator to show the difference. If you scroll all the way to the left, you get a bunch of music options, and the screen orientation lock, which is quite useful since they decided to remove that function from the hardware switch. Now, while that bar is showing, you can press and hold one of those recently run apps, and it will jiggle and you can force quit it by pressing the x in the corner, very much like removing the app. As far as I know the force quit through this method is the same as the one with the power button and home key thing (maybe a bit faster). Where your technique comes in handy is that the list of recently run apps does not include the currently frontmost or 'runningest' app or whatever it is. So you can't quit an app while you're in that app using the ribbon technique.

sjtgraham 16y ago

Doesn't always work. Spotify on iPhone became irreversibly borked for me once, requiring me to delete the entire app and reinstall it

masklinn 16y ago
It does, in your case it seems Spotify utterly corrupted one of its files (since shutting it down completely and restarting it didn't suffice). There isn't much the OS can do then.
- sjtgraham 16y ago
  That's exactly my point. There is no reset option in the case of a corrupted database or file inside the app bundle.
- sjtgraham 16y ago
  That's exactly my point. There is no reset option in the case of a corrupted database or file inside the app bundle.

Stormbringer 16y ago

I am aware of force quitting as per your proposed solution, but it doesn't always work, hence the need to remove the app and reinstall it.

masklinn 16y ago
If the app can't even re-launch itself, a core support file is corrupted so resume or no resume is irrelevant.

Stormbringer 16y ago

Your 'correction' does not apply. Apps that have crashed are no longer running, and hence force quit will do nothing.

Bud 16y ago

That's not force quit. That's uninstall. To force quit, you stay in the app you are quitting, hold down the power button til you get the power-off bar, then hold down Home til the app quits.

jbrennan 16y ago
No, the GP said "Double tap the home button", which brings up the Multitasking tray. If you go into jiggle mode there, you can terminate the app. You'll see a red icon instead of the X used for uninstall.
Stormbringer 16y ago
On the multi-tasking versions of iOS, double tapping the home button brings up a strip down the bottom of the screen. You can scroll left and right, and it will show you apps that you have recently run and/or that are still running. There's no real indicator to show the difference. If you scroll all the way to the left, you get a bunch of music options, and the screen orientation lock, which is quite useful since they decided to remove that function from the hardware switch. Now, while that bar is showing, you can press and hold one of those recently run apps, and it will jiggle and you can force quit it by pressing the x in the corner, very much like removing the app. As far as I know the force quit through this method is the same as the one with the power button and home key thing (maybe a bit faster). Where your technique comes in handy is that the list of recently run apps does not include the currently frontmost or 'runningest' app or whatever it is. So you can't quit an app while you're in that app using the ribbon technique.