Comments on: iPhone Tips: How To Use Force-quit to Force iPhone Apps To Close

By: Emmy

Emmy — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 17:33:07 +0000

Thank you for the tip! I had to hard boot in order for the app to finally close. From reading your directions, it finally made sense also why I was chewing up tons of data usage, thanks again

By: Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:25:09 +0000

For anyone attempting to “force-quit” a program on the Iphone 3gs or earlier, DONT. There is a much safer way to close the applications. double tap the home key, then press and hold like you would to move applications. Once you do this, you can turn off the applications by clicking the red sign.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 02:12:58 +0000

Sounds like a restore is going to be in your future. Just in case, have you tried a hard reboot or even a few of them?

By: iGnome

iGnome — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 22:16:58 +0000

In reply to patrickj. That is a super useful tip! Thanks Patrick. I'm jailbroken with SB settings installed and have always used the processes menu to quit apps to save memory but it's good to know there is a way on a non JBed 3GS

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:19:02 +0000

In reply to Milan Milićević. Under iOS 3.0 and later, you need an extra step, as per Steven's comment below: hold down the power button until "slide to power off" comes up. Let go of the power button and hold the Home button until the app exits

By: Milan Milićević

Milan Milićević — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:05:21 +0000

In reply to Facebook User. i have 3gs model and when i hold home button I activate voice control help

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:30:09 +0000

In reply to Eddie Chan. You hold the Power button down until the 'slide to power off' strip comes up - then let go of the Power button and press the Home button until the app closes.

By: Eddie Chan

Eddie Chan — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:50:15 +0000

Hi All,

Any idea of closing an apps for 3GS?
Seems that it's eating up half of my memory.
Please help.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:34:56 +0000

Christy – glad to hear Steven's cool tip helped you out too. Thanks again Steven.

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By: christyxcore

christyxcore — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:54:22 +0000

Well, that explains why force-quit wasn't working for me a little while ago. An app froze and I tried to force-quit it but since I'm on beta 5, I was wondering why it wasn't working. hah, now I know, thanks 🙂

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:17:20 +0000

Steven – thanks and cool – did not know that one – like it. I hope Apple has something cleverer in store in one of these next betas and / or final version of 3.0 …

By: patrickj

patrickj — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:14:10 +0000

Facebook User – DOH, short brain vacation on my part – now corrected 🙂

By: Steven Amani

Steven Amani — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:13:22 +0000

In OS 3 (betas), to force quit an app, hold down the power button until “slide to power off” comes up. Let go of the power button and hold the Home button until the app exits. I wonder if Apple has another function in mind for holding down Home for 6 seconds now that it no longer forces-quit an app.

By: Facebook User

Facebook User — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:47:01 +0000

You can force an app closed by simply holding the Home button a few seconds.