The purpose of installing apps on our iPhone is to make our daily life more convenient. Helplessly, software unresponsiveness or crashing is a common situation that mobile devices encounter, we always get “my iphone won’t turn off or open apps,please help…” requests. So in this article, I will explain to you why iPhone won’t open apps or turn off and how to fix it.
1. iPhone memory is seriously insufficient. Every electronic device has a certain amount of storage space, and when your iPhone doesn’t have enough storage space to run applications, they will lag, flash, etc. So you need to perform the following steps to free up space on iPhone : General > iPhone Storage > Delete Data.
2. Network status. Almost all apps need network support to work, and the speed of the network is one of the most important factors that affect the speed of apps. When iPhone can’t open Apps or close, don’t rush, please check your network speed first.
3. The device has more programs running in the background. If you enable iPhone’s “Background App Refresh” feature, these apps will keep doing a lot of data transfer in the background, thus taking up iPhone’s running memory, which may cause the system to slow down or even crash. So you should manually close the apps running in the background to solve the problem that iPhone can’t open apps or close them.
4. The system is not compatible with the device. iOS system will appear incompatible with the applications installed under the old system after the update, you need to enter the Apple Store to update these software.
5.The application version needs to be updated or removed. The application you are currently using may have an unfixed problem and the developer must fix it by releasing an updated version of the application. Therefore, please check if there is an updated version of the application that cannot be closed. Likewise, you should uninstall the problematic app.
6. The ambient temperature is too cold or too hot. iOS will adjust the performance of the device according to the external environment conditions, too cold or too hot temperature can make the device run slower, so please make sure your iPhone is in a normal temperature to use.
7. Hardware damage. If your device has been dropped on the ground, hit, dropped in water or even if the device is old, then it is likely that your iPhone won’t open Apps or turn off problem is caused by a body failure due to hardware damage and you need to go to an official Apple repair store to fix it.
Conclusions
The iPhone won’t open Apps or turn off is a very common system lag problem. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to fix it. If you have troubleshot all the issues mentioned in this article and the app on your device is still malfunctioning, visit an authorized repair store for further overhaul.