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by awestroke 276 days ago
"Efficient" as in "kills apps immediately as soon as they are put in background" so that I constantly lose context in apps when multitasking
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bayindirh 276 days ago
Even my "ancient" iPhone X does it so rarely, I don't lose any context. Even if it's happening more frequently than I notice, the apps also restore their contents.

macOS supports context restoration for 7-8 years now at least. iOS has inherited that soon after, so any application "killed", they SHOULD return to the state they exited, given they are implemented correctly.

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qn9n 275 days ago
Pretty sure they just use compressed memory and swap for apps that haven't been used in a while, similar to macOS.
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