BlackBerry 9720 - About multitasking

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About multitasking

Your BlackBerry smartphone supports multitasking, which allows you to run more than one application at a time. During a

call, for example, you might want to switch to the Calendar application to view your appointments or switch to the Contacts

application to look up a contact. While you are playing a song, you might want to switch to the Messages application to

reply to a message.
There are also shortcuts for most applications that can help you to perform common tasks quickly.
Note: The more applications that you have running, the more storage space and battery power your smartphone uses. To

optimize the performance of your smartphone, try to close applications when you are finished with them.
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Tips and shortcuts,

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Close an app so that it is not running in the background,

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Keep an application running in the background and switch to another application,

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User Guide

Applications

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Keep an application running in the background and

switch to another application

• To switch to another application, press and hold the

key until the application switcher appears. Click an

application icon. If the application icon that you want doesn't appear, click the Home icon and navigate to the

application icon that you are looking for.

• To return to the Home screen if you are not on a call, press the

key.

• To return to the Home screen if you are on call, press and hold the

key until the application switcher appears.

Click the Home icon.

Note: If you press the

key while you are on a call, you will end the call even if you have switched to another

application.
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Close an app so that it is not running in the background,

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About multitasking,

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Close an app so that it is not running in the background

To optimize the performance of your BlackBerry smartphone, try to close apps when you are finished with them.

1.

To see which applications are running, press and hold the

key until the application switcher appears.

2.

Click an application icon.

3.

In the app, do one of the following:

• Press the

key > Close.

• Press the

key. If necessary, continue to press the

key until the home screen appears.

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