You’re out with friends, your smartphone battery is quickly diminishing and there isn’t a charger in sight.
The solution is closing all your apps to slow down the draining of your battery, right?
Wrong.
In the past week, both Apple and Android have debunked the myth that closing apps will lengthen battery life.
In fact, force-quitting apps on your phone could actually be having a detrimental effect on your battery life.
According to 9to5Mac, iOS users had this confirmed after an Apple customer named Caleb emailed company chief executive Tim Cook to find out if the theory worked.
“Do you quit your iOS multi-tasking apps frequently and is this necessary for battery life,” he wrote.
Mr Cook didn’t respond personally, but head of Apple’s software development Craig Federghi replied with a short and sweet response.
“No and no,” he said.
A more detailed response was given by former Apple technician and Martiancraft chief executive Kyle Richter earlier this month.
“Repetitive exiting and relaunching can have a very noticeable toll on your battery life,” he wrote in a detailed blog post.
“The only time you need to force-quit an app is if it is frozen, or otherwise misbehaving — beyond that the best battery life can be attained by not force-quitting any apps.”
If you are looking for an effective way to save battery, you should try turning down the brightness of your screen, adding a shorter screen time-out, using flight mode or turning off vibrate.