Closing apps doesn’t improve performance or save battery lifeYour phone is about to die so you manually close all the applications you’ve left open. Closing apps on your phone doesn’t work the same way as on a computer, something I mentioned in an article about battery myths. Neither Google nor Apple suggest closing apps in order to save battery or system resources on their websites. Craig Federighi, SVP of Software Engineering at Apple, has publicly said closing apps doesn’t help with battery life. If anything, closing apps might make things worse, because your phone will have to fully reload the application the next time you launch it.