

The Restart/Shut Down combination from macOS also made its way to iOS, though iOS muddles the terminology. Like so many other iOS gestures, that isn’t something you’d be likely to discover on your own, though Apple does document it. You can force-quit a frozen iOS app by swiping up on its thumbnail in the App Switcher. So Apple hid these troubleshooting features. iOS apps can still freeze or otherwise freak out such that they can’t be used again until the user force-quits them, and iOS devices can still get into states where a restart is the only solution.

However, those capabilities had to remain accessible somehow. Two of the most obvious were quitting apps and restarting/shutting down the device. When Apple’s engineers designed iOS, they took the opportunity to pare away behaviors and usage patterns that were unnecessary in a modern operating system running on tightly controlled hardware. Why You Shouldn’t Make a Habit of Force-Quitting iOS Apps or Restarting iOS Devices
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