I learned something new about my iPhone (nothing new for others, I am sure)

[question everything]

I got it - SE - almost three years ago from Consumer Cellular.

Spouse got a few books which are not easy to follow and it was leaning as I went.

Except the whatsapp that I found a good Youtube clip.

I was talking by phone to a support person at the local Apple store, wondering whether at 81% battery I needed a new one. She entered my phone, conducted some diagnostic and everything was OK.

While there, she showed me how to open all the pages in Safari! Wow! I had more than 350 pages! Every single page that I have ever visited from the iPhone from the past year was there.

A years ago my cousin was "deleting" items on my phone but I had no idea what she was doing..

Interesting thought, I really do not use the iPhone as a computer. Mostly mail, text, weather and quick Facebook and Nextdoor.

Now I wonder whether the same thing exists on my iPad and..

No wonder my cousin claims that "old people" - meaning me - have difficulties mastering new technology.

[Mz Pip]

1. Old person here

I discovered the same thing. It took me awhile to close all those pages. I don’t remember how many were open but it was at least a couple hundred. I clear them out every couple of days now.

[ret5hd]

2. You know what old people have no problem mastering?

That
“old person side-eye gonna cut you outta the will you impertinent brat now get off my lawn!”
look that sends them running to their rooms.

We got that down pat.

on edit: and stick shifts. We know how to use clutches and stick shifts.

[Effete Snob]

3. another one...

Running processes in background.

Swiping up quickly from the bottom of the screen will show you how many apps are actually still running and not shut down. To actually shut them down you have to flick them upwards again.

If they are frequently-used apps, that's also one way to switch between them, and to avoid them having to consume resources by starting up every time. But, like your safari pages, at the point I learned how to actually stop apps from running, it was quite a collection.

[happybird]

4. My mom had the same issue

Apparently 500 open tabs /safari pages is the max allowed because that’s what she had open when I looked.


She was wondering why her phone was so slow. Several versions ago it was easier to see and to close open tabs, but they keep doing stupid updates and changing stuff just to change it. “Look! It’s new!” Ugh.

[timms139]

5. You can set

it to close all those tabs after a day or week etc. automatically.

[question everything]

6. And.. don't keep me in suspense. How?

[multigraincracker]

7. My IT person showed me that.

She’s 12 years younger than me and I married her.
Saves on battery closing them.

[usonian]

8. Close tabs automatically after a given time.

https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-your-iphone-automatically-close-old-tabs-so-safari-doesnt-become-hot-mess-0385124/

I verified it on ios16.6

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