Re: Troubleshooting on an iPad.

On 2024-09-20, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:

On 2024-09-20 12:41, Jolly Roger wrote:

On 2024-09-20, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

On 2024-09-20 06:32:47 +0000, Bernd Froehlich said:

On 19. Sep 2024 at 10:06:15 CEST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
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My son has has asked me:
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My iPad is getting slower and slower to the extent that it’s
making some applications difficult to use. I could try shutting
down or restarting but my perception is this is a recurring issue.
Is there any known memory or process monitoring on the iPad to see
if I have an app that is misbehaving?
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I know of none, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything. cAnd
if there is I assume it would apply equally to the iPd and iPhone.
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Any suggestions? I have suggested a power down and restart, and he
will try that for starters.
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Old John.

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You could try if closing all running apps helps. (AFAIK a restart
won´t do that).
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iPad OS SHOULD take care of memory by itself, but I have
encountered some situations where closing all apps helped.

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The problem with devices is that most people don't close (and don't
know how or that they should) apps they aren't currently using, so
they can end up with lots of stuff still running. i

 
This is not the case with Apple mobile devices. You are spreading
misinformation.

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Well ...
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Suddenly my battery was draining very quickly and I had no idea why.
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Turns out I had unintentionally left a sensor recorder running in
background and (at 5Hz and many parameters) that burned the battery
pretty quick.
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The very helpful Battery status app (Settings) showed me which app was
the bad boy.  And I turned off the recording - no need to kick the app
out.
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To be sure the fault was mine.
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But this was a case where a "precautionary kick out" of an app would
have saved me a little frustration.
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Otherwise I rarely deliberately kick apps out.

That's a specific type of app that was designed to run in the background
indefinitely though. As I said in my other reply in this thread. Most
apps do not run in the background indefinitely.

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