Everything force quit
A little over a year ago I wrote a rather controversial editorial stating that iOS users don't ever need to kill all the apps in their multitasking dock (fast app switcher). Earlier this year the subject was brought back to the spotlight, with other developers and bloggers reaching pretty much the same conclusion.
About a year ago I wrote a post explaining why you don't have to kill multitasking apps in iOS. iOS 4 had been introduced, bringing multitasking to iPhone, iPod
One of the most frequent questions we're getting these days is how to close all apps at once -- basically how to force quit or kill every app from the
iOS 4's new fast app switcher interface also allows you to kill both Apple and 3rd party App Store apps that may be causing problems in the background.
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With iPhone 1.x and 2.x, you could hold down the Home button to "force quit" an application (kill the process) and return to the Home Screen. With iPhone 3.0
UPDATE: Force Quit has changed in iPhone 3.0. Check out our new how-to!
Those of us who rock Mac OS X know all about the "Force Quit". For Windows users,
