
Why you shouldn’t clear recent apps in Android and iPhones, and why you should stop doing it.
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Reason 1: It heats up the phone more frequently
Excessive heat production is one of the most common issues that arises from frequently clearing recent apps on your Android or iPhone.
When you clear a recent app, your phone’s CPU needs to work harder to reopen and operate the app when you open it again. This can make the CPU work even harder if it’s not a very powerful CPU, which can cause it to overheat and even stop working altogether.
The situation only gets worse if the apps need to download cached data from the internet. This makes the smartphone modem work harder, which increases heat production.
Reason 2: It slows down the phone sometimes
Why you shouldn’t clear recent apps in Android and iPhones, and why you should stop doing it.
Most people believe frequently clearing recent apps improves their smartphone performance but it’s not true. Your smartphone performance depends on its hardware and software management and efficiency. All opened apps in the recent apps section are temporarily saved in the RAM memory of the smartphone.
In that case, the CPU needs to work less to retrieve those app files and data, hence it works well. But if you clear all recent apps and do it frequently, then your CPU needs to fetch app data from storage memory each time, which makes your phone work slow and unresponsive in low-end hardware.
Nowadays, Android and iOS software are capable of handling recent apps and CPU management, so you don’t need to clear recent apps.
Reason 3: You can lose unsaved data
Clearing recent apps sometimes becomes harmful because you will lose your important unsaved data by doing this.
If you do some important work like a payment or other things and accidentally clear recent apps during the process, your data is lost because it is cleared from the main RAM memory during processing, and it cannot be recovered.
To avoid this situation, stop your habit of clearing recent apps and leave them as they are.
Reason 4: Decrease battery life
As we mentioned above, clearing recent apps increases the load on your smartphone’s CPU and hardware, which increases heat and decreases performance.
These things indirectly affect your smartphone’s battery life. Your smartphone’s battery life gets worse if you clear recent apps frequently.
By not clearing recent apps, you can increase your smartphone’s battery life by more than 10%, as seen in our real-life test.
Reason 5: Some apps may not work perfectly
The last thing I’ll mention is app crashes, although these are rare but can be seen on some smartphones. This is especially true in smartphones that come with third-party software skins.
Some apps and features on your smartphone need to run in the background continuously in order to work properly.
By clearing recent apps you are removing those apps from working in the background that resulted in crashes or stop working for those apps, especially in iPhones.
The key point is that clearing recent apps in smartphones, whether it’s Android or iPhone, comes with disadvantages. You won’t have any benefit from doing this. Stop clearing recent apps frequently and see the improvement your smartphone gains.
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