You are certainly, like a majority of Google Pixel 4 owners, struggling to have battery life on your smartphone throughout your days. One of the factors that consume the most battery on smartphones are the applications running in the background. We will show you in this guide how to close applications on a Google Pixel 4?
For this, first, we will quickly show you the interest of doing this procedure, then, how to quit one application, several applications simultaneously, and to finish how to force an application to stop on google pixel 4?
Why is it essential to close an application on your Google Pixel 4?
To start this article, we thought it would be important to quickly recap the advantages of closing an application on a Google Pixel 4. Indeed, we tend to just return to the home screen of our smartphone, or lock it as soon as we have finished our task. However, these methods never close running applications, they are in fact just put in the background and continue to function.
And, of course, if they work, that means that they will consume your Google Pixel 4's resources, this is problematic for two major reasons, we strongly suggest that you close all the applications that you are not using for :
- Improve battery life on your Google Pixel 4 , the processor which will be less used will consume less energy and your battery will thank you, if you have battery problems on your Google Pixel 4, you can read our article on this topic
- Improve the performance of your Google Pixel 4 , in addition to the energy gained, you will free up space on your smartphone's RAM and on the processor, so your smartphone will be more efficient for the rest of the tasks you ask it to perform
How to close apps on Google Pixel 4?
It's time to show you the different methods that exist to quit an application on your Google Pixel 4. As we told you, it is particularly useful for the general performance of your smartphone to do so, if you do not think you will quickly use an app, then consider applying one of these methods.
How to quit a single app on Google Pixel 4?
If you want to very easily close an application on your Google Pixel 4 , nothing could be simpler, you will only have to apply the few information proposed below. This technique is useful when you have just used an app that you are not used to using and want to close it to prevent it from consuming power:
- Unlock the screen of your Google Pixel 4
- Click on the button with the three horizontal lines at the bottom of your screen that represents the task Manager
- Navigate the interface by sliding right or left until you position yourself in front of the application you want to close
- Drag the app up to exit
How to close all applications of its Google Pixel 4?
Second option, if you are not going to use your smartphone in the next few minutes / hours, and you don't have anything open that you absolutely want to see again, we suggest you from time to time to close all applications on your Google Pixel 4 To free up space and avoid draining your battery life, use the following guidelines to do so:
- Unlock your Google Pixel 4
- Press the button with the three vertical lines at the bottom left of the screen to reach the task manager
- Now click on "Close all" , in this way, all applications open on your smartphone will be quit
How to force an app to close on Google Pixel 4?
In the event that you have the feeling that an application does not really close and always stays open, you can force an application to quit on a Google Pixel 4 . The handling is a bit longer, however you are sure of its effectiveness, here it is:
- Open the “Settings” of your Google Pixel 4
- Go to the menu "Applications"
- Find the app you want to close from the list and tap on it
- Tap at the bottom of your screen "Force stop" , so your application will be quit
If you ever want a maximum of tutorials to become the absolute master of the Google Pixel 4, we invite you to watch the other tutorials in the category: Google Pixel 4.
