"Close all apps" button

Help Fairphone 2
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Hello!
Is there any way to close all apps at once?
It would be very useful to have a way to close them all once after you click on the right square icon which shows every app opened at that moment.
Thanks!
Miriam

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This question comes up often, but Android OS prefers to keep all applications running or better “sleeping” in the available memory. This is a design decision made for different reasons (good and bad ones).

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Thanks for the answer! No possibility to add that then?

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We are just an open forum here (I’m just a FP user as well), but technically it’s possible. But I don’t think it will get implemented. On Android you have to able to trust the applications you run not to do something fishy behind your back.

Here is a link that maybe explains the whole thing a bit more (Sorry, have to run … not sure if it’s a really good article).

Update: But maybe there are apps and launchers available that provide this kind of feature?

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If you have rooted your phone you can install the XPosed module Gravity Box which gives the ability to add such a button (and many more cool tweaks).

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A link that explains the whole problem better and also gives some answers to those who still want to do it:

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Thanks!! I’ll check that!

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