Swipe up to close apps on Android doesn't make your phone any faster. It usually doesn't even close the apps, including Amethyst. You can just leave them all open.
Android will close the oldest apps when it needs the space automatically. If your phone is not visibly closing apps for you, your swipe up is not doing anything.
GM.
Exactly, just tested it for a couple of weeks on a phone with dying battery. You need to close apps and restart. Simple swipe up and close or just restart wouldn't work, you need to do both for it to take effect. It is almost esoteric mambo jumbo you need to do to squeeze couple extra minutes from the battery.
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What about: settings>apps>force close. Does that speed it up
Yep, that does it for any app.
I hate that this is true. Let me close the damn apps I wanna clpse!
app info --> force stop. Annoying but works.
Yes true
Thats not a good way of going about it. Apps are designed to start many services by just being installed in the device. If you kill them, almost all of them will restart back up immediately. And if they don't, like Amethyst, you will miss notifications and many other background services a until you start the app again. The swipe just kills the UI and these days the UI doesn't do much.
So what does it do? Is it merely so you can "alt-tab" more efficient?
It basically stops the activity, which is just the screen of the app. But only if none of the background processes are working. If they are working it literally just hides it.
I'm a little surprised to hear this because swiping up does seem to "fix" misbehaving apps when they're opened again.
I had no idea, but this makes a lot of sense.
Also I have been meaning to mention that amethyst seems to take audio priority whenever I get into my car and sync to Bluetooth. It'll auto-play audio from whatever meme I was most recently watching.
Any idea how to stop this from happening?
Gm
swipe up hold, and then swipe up again on the app, that does a harder reset of the app (and prob frees memory) is my understanding.
Not on #GrapheneOS!
