[go: up one dir, main page]

Swipe up to close apps not working in iPadOS 26

just noticed with iOS 26 that the swipe up does not close some apps, you have to use the three buttons, should be a way to reset and go back to the swipe up to close app if you do not do multi tasking, or is there another work around now.



[Re-Titled by Moderator]

Original Title: swiping up on apps

iPad Pro, iPadOS 26

Posted on Sep 21, 2025 7:20 AM

Reply
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Posted on Oct 2, 2025 3:41 PM

There is generally no reason to force close an App that is operating normally. Due to the design of iOS/iPadOS, Apps consume virtually no system resources when they are dormant. Force closing and relaunching an App is also not power efficient; relaunching an App requires the App to be fully re-initialised, whereas resuming from a saved state requires significantly less power.


If you need to force-close an App, check that you are using the correct method...


Swipe upwards from the bottom edge to the centre of the screen - and pause briefly before lifting your finger from the screen. This will open the App switcher page - that will show a thumbnail image of each of your open (but not necessarily running) Apps. To force-close an App, swipe the corresponding thumbnail off the top of the screen.

11 replies
Question marked as Top-ranking reply

Oct 2, 2025 3:41 PM in response to Bert689rdk

There is generally no reason to force close an App that is operating normally. Due to the design of iOS/iPadOS, Apps consume virtually no system resources when they are dormant. Force closing and relaunching an App is also not power efficient; relaunching an App requires the App to be fully re-initialised, whereas resuming from a saved state requires significantly less power.


If you need to force-close an App, check that you are using the correct method...


Swipe upwards from the bottom edge to the centre of the screen - and pause briefly before lifting your finger from the screen. This will open the App switcher page - that will show a thumbnail image of each of your open (but not necessarily running) Apps. To force-close an App, swipe the corresponding thumbnail off the top of the screen.

Oct 15, 2025 11:46 AM in response to Bathus

Bathus wrote:

One often has a reason to close apps: because apps I’m not using clutter up my screen! And, yes, the swipe up to close functionality has become dodgy and often simply does not work. Rather than blaming the customer, maybe Apple should not have released an IOS that is this buggy.

Maybe, just maybe, iOS 26 is not buggy, but there is a problem with your iPhone. I have seen no other reports of your issue, and certainly not from the roughly 500 million users who have updated. Surely just a few thousand of them would have reported it if they have experienced it.


And there is no good reason to close apps, it increases your battery energy drain and slows down your iPhone→Do not close "background" apps | Communities



Oct 15, 2025 10:08 PM in response to Bert689rdk

Swiping up open app to turn them off does not work. Suggestions for how to swipe up to turn apps off also do not work. And these settings suggestions do not solve the problem. I now have 4 open and eternally active apps. I fear having 23 of them open in memory and then need to find the one that I need to use. This is unacceptable. In addition, simply swiping up or down a single page for reading is choppy/ jerky. Please fix these bugs in iOS 26.

Swipe up to close apps not working in iPadOS 26

Welcome to Apple Support Community
A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.