Force Close an Application on Samsung Note 10.1

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video tutorial, we're going to review how to close applications and force-stop an application on your Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. There are two ways to force-stop an application.

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   The first way to stop an application by force is to press and hold the home button

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   This will open Task manager.

   

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   To close all of the applications, we tap on "Close all"

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   If you want to close only one application, tap and hold an application icon until a pop-up menu appears

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   Then, tap on "Remove from list"

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   The second way to stop an application by force is to tap and hold the application icon

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   The icon can be on the home screen or in any folder.

   

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   Then, drag the icon to "App info" at the top of the screen

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   "App info" will be opened. In "App info", we can see the following buttons: "Force stop", "Uninstall", "Move to SD card", "Clear data", "Clear cache", etc.

   

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   Tap on "Force stop"

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   Tapping "Force stop" will terminate the application if it has an error state or freezes (hangs). A pop-up window will appear that will read "If you force stop an application, it may cause errors."

   

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   Tap on "OK"

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