Android 16 QPR1 lets you close all your apps super quick, but should you?

Android 16 QPR1 lets you close all your apps super quick, but should you?

Android 16 Pixel 9a stood up

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  • Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 includes a quality-of-life improvement that allows immediate swiping away of recent apps to close them.
  • The update removes the delay caused by waiting for the app-closing animations to finish, so users can quickly swipe-close all their apps one after the other.
  • Despite the performance improvement, habitual app-clearing offers little benefit and may drain your battery.

Android 16 QPR1 Beta 2 is here, and eager enthusiasts are digging into the update to discover all that is new. One change people have spotted includes a faster swipe through from the Recents menu, saving some time if you obsessively close all apps.

Reddit user ElectricalCulture764 noticed that swiping away apps in the Recents menu is now faster than ever before. Previously, when you opened a bunch of apps, went to Recents (swipe up and hold from the navigation pill), and tried to close the apps, you would have to wait for the full animation to complete before you could successfully swipe close the next app. The system would seemingly ignore touch input until the animation was finished.