![]() ( Apple’s documentation calls the process of pressing and holding the side or top button until the power-off slider appears “restarting,” even though it’s more like the Mac’s Shut Down command, given that it involves a power cycle. The Restart/Shut Down combination from macOS also made its way to iOS, though iOS muddles the terminology. Like so many other iOS gestures, that isn’t something you’d be likely to discover on your own, though Apple does document it. You can force-quit a frozen iOS app by swiping up on its thumbnail in the App Switcher. So Apple hid these troubleshooting features. ![]() iOS apps can still freeze or otherwise freak out such that they can’t be used again until the user force-quits them, and iOS devices can still get into states where a restart is the only solution. ![]() ![]() However, those capabilities had to remain accessible somehow. Two of the most obvious were quitting apps and restarting/shutting down the device. When Apple’s engineers designed iOS, they took the opportunity to pare away behaviors and usage patterns that were unnecessary in a modern operating system running on tightly controlled hardware. Why You Shouldn’t Make a Habit of Force-Quitting iOS Apps or Restarting iOS Devices #1630: Apple Books changes in iOS 16, simplified USB branding, recovering a lost Google Workspace account.#1631: iOS 16.0.3 and watchOS 9.0.2, roller coasters trigger Crash Detection, Medications in iOS 16, watchOS 9 Low Power Mode.#1632: Apple Card Savings accounts, SOS in the iPhone status bar, Tab Wrangler, Focus in iOS 16.#1633: macOS 13 Ventura and other OS updates, 10th-gen iPad, M2 iPad Pro, 3rd-gen Apple TV 4K, Apple services price hikes.#1634: New Messages features, Apple Q4 2022 results, Preview drops PostScript, iOS/iPadOS 15.7.1, Dvorak on iPhone and iPad.
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