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Does it help to force close apps on your phone?

Should you manually close an app when you're done with it? Not usually.

(Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)When used as a computing term, force-closing means terminating a running process. Since it was designed for machines with mobile application processors, no real way of keeping them cool, and only a battery to power them, it can't let things run amok. If you swipe an app away to try and push it out of your memory, that space won't stay free for long.

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