![]() I guess forever, or until you reboot the device. Unless you deliberately open the Task Switcher and kill the apps, they linger in there. I think I may have found an astoundingly low-tech solution to this problem, and it was right under my nose.Įver since iOS became "multi-tasking" capable (I say that tongue-in-cheek, as we all know that most apps that get backgrounded aren't still running, they've just had their state saved until used again), the Task Switcher, accessible via a double-press of the Home Button, shows you a more-or-less "use-ordered" list of your apps. Otherwise, I'm left to my own intuition about how often I use things, which can be false, or in the least, inefficient. ![]() Knowing this kind of usage information would also be objectively useful if I'm trying to implement some kind of app/folder organizational strategy. If that is via Terminal on the desktop, that's fine. I'm not necessarily even interested in an iOS app that gets me this information I'm simply interested in it any way that it can be had. Note that my iPhone is not jailbroken, nor do I wish to jail-break it. I can no longer find that article- not sure if it's gone or if I'm just not using the same search terms as before. For some reason, I seem to recall Googling this several months ago, and running across an article describing a way to glean usage information from the backup file(s) that iTunes creates. I've seen apps mentioned here on AskDifferent that purport to do such a thing, but have not tried any of them. So far, I have not found a way to do this. Yeah, I know that deleting isn't forever with apps- but having geeky data makes me feel good. I could probably take a qualitative, subjective stab at this myself, but I'd like to have some data, just so I don't toss an app that I may have used, but don't remember using. No one needs that many apps, right? I want to organize my installed apps based on how frequently I use them, and/or how recently I last used them. I have over 200 apps on my iPhone 4 (32GB).
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