closing multiple windows all at once

[roach]

Is there a way to close five windows at once,now I have been closing them one by one,I was hoping the update would of corrected that.
Thank's

 

[Sajo]

I assume you mean close all open / running apps at once? No way that I know of on a Droid phone, you have to close them one at a time. It is a pretty quick swipe to close though.

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[GoCliffGo05]

That's a moto thing. My Samsung has a close all option. Nothing I can think of to change that aside from root or a rom. Maybe a different launcher but I doubt it.

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[roach]

well that sucks one at a time is no big deal but you would of thought it would of been in the upgrade.
Thanks guys

 

[Sajo]

I think the older Droids had a Close All option, but could be mistaken? Since Moto has gone more vanilla Android since 2013, it's just not part of Moto's Android. Maybe stock Android doesn't have that option either? Like GoCliffGo05 posted, it is a Samsung option, my Sammy work phone has it.

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[kmf1]

I believe that with the older phones, turning the phones off and back on, restarts, and cache partition clears, cleared the recent app cards. With my Moto phones I don't ever remember a clear all button.

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[PereDroid]

Here's the thing...for all the talk of "Multitasking"... Android still, really and truly, does not do TRUE multitasking. Those recent snapshots are pretty much that: just snapshots. They are not 'running in the background'.

Example: Open Chrome. Navigate to a page. Switch to something else. Switch to something else. Pull up recents. Go back to Chrome. Notice how the page actually RELOADS. EVERY time.

Yes, you can synch to Dropbox listen to music and surf the web. But 90% of those RECENT apps, if not more, are not actually RUNNING. This is not unique to Android. iPhones are almost exactly the same. The difference:
Apple even publicly admitted it. Closing those does NOT speed up your phone. If you think it does...placebo.

Closing all of your apps doesn't actually save your iPhone's battery

 

[Jonny Kansas]

Yup. They go into a "suspended" state so they're faster to reload if/when you go back to them. Closing them down in the recents menu actually makes it take more resources to completely reload the app instead of just bringing it back from suspended state (and in Chrome's case, refreshing the page to ensure that you've got the most recent version loaded).

 

[roach]

yes the older droids did have that option and to bad they took it out,there will be times i forget and i could have 25 open windows.

 

[PereDroid]

And as we just explained, it really has no effect on your device. That's why Google dumped it.

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[Mustang02]

Rebooting always clears them quickly for me.

 

[roach]

ok i got it thanks

 

[PereDroid]

Reboot a Turbo2...and they're all still there.

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[Sajo]

Reboot a Turbo2...and they're all still there.

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Same way when I had a Turbo. Don't remember when that changed, Droid Maxx? Or even farther back?

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[Jonny Kansas]

Reboot a Turbo2...and they're all still there.

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Yeah. I thought that was the case on Android in general starting with...I want to say lollipop...?

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