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Which makes it all the more infuriating that Geniuses are telling people to clear that stuff out. A directive needs to come from on high to stop that.

• danellis 15y ago
  Indeed. I took my iPad in because it kept losing its wifi connection. The "genius" looked at all that apps along the bottom and declared that they were using so much memory that the OS was forgetting the wifi password.
  • chc 15y ago
    That's just weird. There's no supported way to tell what apps are actually in memory. The list in the bottom when you double-click the home button just shows all recently used apps, even if they've been purged.
  • glhaynes 15y ago
    Steve would have wept if he could have seen that happen.
• ghshephard 15y ago
  Well, infuriating except for the fact that it works in a number of scenarios with very little risk. My advice would probably be simpler, "Just reboot your iPhone. "
  • glhaynes 15y ago
    I agree with "reboot your phone if you're having repeated troubles" but not with telling people to clear out the list — sure, there's very little risk of harm to the device, but because people (including authoritative ones) are telling people they need to clear the task switcher out, how many hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people are spending minutes every day clearing the list out? Not to mention the extra mental "weightiness" to all those people of having one more thing in their lives that's constantly filling with cruft and needing to be emptied?