How To Close Apps On The IPhone X

It’s a common misconception that closing out apps on your iPhone helps extend battery life. This isn’t really true—iOS suspends inactive background applications qui5te effectively. Re-starting apps from scratch takes more time and can result in shorter battery life than simply un-suspending them. But apps aren’t always perfectly well behaved. Sometimes they freeze or the interface gets corrupted, and you need to start over fresh. Those sorts of situations are the only times you should really close apps. With no home button on the iPhone X, how do you do it, Bring up your list of all apps by swiping up from the bottom of the screen and pausing for a second. You’ll see cards for all your apps pop in. Press and hold anywhere on those app cards. You’ll see a red circle appear on the upper left of each one. When you see the red circles, your apps are ready to close. Tap any red circle to close that app. Tap anywhere outside the stack of app cards to cancel the app-closing mode. You can also swipe up on the cards to close apps, but only once the red circles are showing. Swiping up on an app any other time just returns you to the home screen. Again, you shouldn’t feel it necessary to close apps in order to extend your phone’s battery. Constantly closing and re-launching apps will probably cost you battery life, compared to allowing the operating system to manage its resources. But if you want to ensure that an app isn’t doing anything in the background, or need to re-launch it to fix a problem, closing apps can be effective.

You can run the apps for which you are the developer, or for which you have souce code, on the XCode simulator. The simulator is not an emulator. Instead of compiling the application for an iPhone (ARM architecture) target, you are compiling it for Mac OS X (Intel) as a target. This means that it uses the same library interfaces, but that those interfaces are running Intel libraries which pretend to be iPhone guts running on an Intel platform. Among other things, this means you aren’t going to be able to test functions of your App that depend on iPhone specific hardware — cellular data network, making phone calls, some aspects of push notifications, SMS, accelerometer, and so on. Note: What’s definitely not going to happen is someone building a glue layer that lets you run most iPhone Apps on other iPhone-like devices, e.g. Google Nexus or other phone platforms.

Macworld explains how to run iPad or iPhone apps on a Mac or Windows laptop or PC - or at least simulate them. OS and macOS are separate operating systems and they have their own separate software libraries. The bad news is that an app for one platform will not run conventionally on the other. The good news is that there is quite a lot of overlap. Even if there isn't a direct equivalent, bear in mind that there may be something similar or even functionally identical under another name or by another company. For big-name apps it's worth Googling "games similar to The Room" or whatever applies. We live in a world where successful apps find themselves mimicked or cloned on a range of platforms before long. If you do manage to find a version of your iOS app for the Mac, you will unfortunately have to pay for it again (assuming it's a paid-for rather than free app).



Assuming there isn't a Mac version (or ripoff) of the iOS app you're keen to run, your other alternative is to download simulator software that mimics the behaviour of an iPad on a different platform. This isn't a perfect solution, we're afraid, with a number of limitations and drawbacks, but it may be the best you can do at this point. We've got two simulator options for you to consider. The best iPad simulator for Mac and PC that we've found is called iPadian. The Mac version of iPadian is available from Softpedia; you can download the PC version from PCA Downloads. Padian, which is based on Adobe AIR, creates an iPad-style interface in a window on your PC or Mac desktop and runs the apps (or close approximations of them) within that. It looks terrific - the apps look almost exactly the way they would on an iPad or iPhone - and installation is straightforward. But bear in mind that this isn't a method that allows you to transfer your existing library of apps to the Mac or PC.