Thanks for that Esther, I will give this a go. Take care
Paula On 20/12/2011, at 11:59 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Paula and Others, > > At the risk of adding to an already long thread, I thought I'd post > instructions on how I remove apps from the App switcher window. > > 1. If you are currently in an app, click the "Home" button to return to the > home screen > 2. Double click the "Home" button, and you should hear VoiceOver say, "App > Switcher", then announce the name of your most recently used app, followed by > "double tap to open". > 3. Perform the double tap and hold pass through gesture in the center of your > iPhone screen. You should hear the burbly sound that indicates a successful > execution of the pass through gesture, then VoiceOver should say, "editing > apps". Focus will be on the app in the bottom left corner of the screen. > You don't have to locate this app before you do the pass through gesture, > because it already had focus when you opened the App Switcher. So you don't > need to worry about performing the double tap and hold gesture in any > particular location on the screen -- I do this in the center of the screen. > 4. Keep double tapping in the center of the screen to delete apps. As you > delete apps, focus will stay on the bottom left corner of the screen, and the > next app to be deleted will move into position here. (You don't actually > have to wait for VoiceOver to announce each action's completed status as you > double tap to delete.) > 5. Eventually, VoiceOver will announce, "App Switcher has no items". > 6. Click the "Home" button to return to your home screen. > > You can also perform a variant of the above using a paired Bluetooth > keyboard, but the double tap and hold pass through gesture must be performed > on the screen, since there is no equivalent keyboard shortcut. The > instructions would work as follows: > 1. If you are currently in an app, press Control+Option+H to return to the > home screen. On keyboards with a dedicated "Home" key (e.g. the iPad > Keyboard Dock, and some third party keyboards, but not the Apple Wireless > Keyboard) you can press that key to return to the home screen. > 2. Press VO-H twice by holding down the Control+Option keys and tapping the > "h" key twice to access the App Switcher. Again, on keyboards with a > dedicated "Home" key, you can simply double click that key. > 3. Perform the double tap and hold pass through gesture in the center of your > iPhone screen. (This has to be done as a gesture, but you can do it anywhere > in the center of your screen.) You should hear the burbly sound that > indicates a successful execution of the pass through gesture, then VoiceOver > should say, "editing apps". Focus will be on the most recently used app, in > the bottom left corner of the screen. > 4. Use your keyboard to remove all the apps in the App Switcher window. I do > this with VO+space bar, since I can hold down the Control+Option keys and > just keep tapping the space bar until all the apps in the App Switcher window > are removed and you hear VoiceOver say, "App Switcher has no items". If you > have a Keyboard without a Control or Option key, you can turn QuickNav on (by > simultaneously pressing the right and left arrow keys), and then press the > up+down arrow keys instead of using VO+space bar to delete apps. > 5. Eventually, VoiceOver will announce, "App Switcher has no items". > 6. Press VO+H, or press the dedicated home key if your keyboard has one, to > return to the home screen. > > I'll just add that the App Switcher window is really a list of your recently > used apps, but doesn't tell you which apps are actively running. In the > multi-tasking environment, as your iOS device requires more resources it > starts dropping your previously used apps from its active list. If you > happen to remove an app from your App Switcher window which is actively > running, you'll stop it from running. Since VoiceOver requires more > resources when it is running than the default iOS system without VoiceOver, > users often want to release resources from currently running apps manually, > hence the practice of clearing off apps from the App Switcher window. This > is overkill in the sense that you're removing all your recently used apps in > order to guarantee that the few that are still using resources are stopped. > Another way to do this, without deleting apps from the App Switcher window, > is to use an app that frees memory, like XSysInfo or System Activity Monitor. > There are prob ab > ly more updated versions of these apps that can be used to free memory. I > usually use Activity Monitor Touch to check which apps are currently running. > Another thing that may not be obvious: even when an app is not running, it > still may locally store data in memory that gets used when you next launch > the app. So even if you remove Safari from the App Switcher window, if you > don't close additional tabs, or go to Settings > Safari and use the options > to "Clear Cache" and "Clear History", that stored memory usage will still > impact your resources. > > HTH. 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