How to Quit Apps on iPhone X

How to Quit Apps on iPhone X

Want to quit apps on iPhone X? Maybe an app is misbehaving or draining your battery, or maybe you dont want to updating or doing things in the background. If you need to quit running apps on iPhone X, you may have noticed that the traditional swipe up gesture does not work to close the app and instead sends you back to the home screen.

Instead, iPhone X has a new method of quitting apps that uses a two part method composed of both a gesture and then a tap and hold. It may take a little bit of getting used to, but the end result is the same; you can close out of running iOS apps. * Thats it, just swipe up to access the multitasking screen, then tap and hold, then tap the red button to quit apps on iPhone X.

The tap and hold action is a bit like what you use to from the Home Screen too, so it should be familiar to iOS users. Of course here were just quitting the app rather than deleting it, however.

The video below shows how this works, starting from the swipe and pause gesture, then tapping and holding to quit apps on iPhone X multitasking screen: Note that if you simply swipe up on an app preview card, like how you quit apps on prior iOS devices, youll wind up back at the home screen of the iPhone X.

It should be noted that changes in current beta versions where a swipe up does allow for quitting an app, but it remains to be seen if that persists in the final version of iOS. How to quit apps in iOS has always been evolving, from what you see now on iPhone X (which perhaps will carry over to other devices, or change on iPhone X), to , to , to but an otherwise familiar swipe up gesture, to wait for it. swiping up to access the multitasking bar and then tapping and holding on an app icon to quit the app .
In some ways weve come full circle when it comes to quitting apps now, but it goes without saying that the necessary actions change fairly frequently, so dont be surprised if it changes yet again for iPhone X in fact, current beta versions of iOS for iPhone X have it changing yet again, back to a swipe up, but also maintaining the tap-and-hold trick.