{"id":4087,"date":"2012-01-02T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2020-10-05T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T18:20:37","slug":"misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/02\/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking\/","title":{"rendered":"Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/speirs.org\/blog\/2012\/1\/2\/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html\">Fraser Speirs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/speirs.org\/blog\/2012\/1\/2\/misconceptions-about-ios-multitasking.html\"><p>Let me be as clear as I can be: the iOS multitasking bar does not contain &ldquo;a list of all running apps&rdquo;. It contains &ldquo;a list of recently used apps&rdquo;. The user never has to manage background tasks on iOS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&rsquo;s what I thought until I woke up yesterday to a battery drained into the red. The Location Services pane in Settings showed that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.motionx.com\/category\/motionx-gps\/\">MotionX-GPS<\/a> (which I&rsquo;m otherwise quite happy with) had been using the GPS even though I&rsquo;d long since stopped the track-recording that it had been doing. I couldn&rsquo;t figure out why it was doing that, so I went into the multitasking bar and quit it.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraser Speirs: Let me be as clear as I can be: the iOS multitasking bar does not contain &ldquo;a list of all running apps&rdquo;. It contains &ldquo;a list of recently used apps&rdquo;. The user never has to manage background tasks on iOS. That&rsquo;s what I thought until I woke up yesterday to a battery drained [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-10-05T18:20:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"ee9b4125-4638-4ec0-832e-de739c73ebbc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2020-10-05T18:20:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A7ptBJUY4TsCDLt5znHPrvA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[772,1994],"class_list":["post-4087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios-multitasking","tag-motionx-gps"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4090,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4087\/revisions\/4090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}