Way to "kill" all running apps?

[gsxr150]

My old GS2 had a built in samsung app that would close all running items in the background... I'm not seeing it here, is there one I am missing? Otherwise I have 10 things open in the background.

 

[GatorPT]

Hold down the home key, will show you previous pages visited. You can close them if you want. I find no reason to close them as I am having wonderful battery life, and with that 2GB of Ram, things move just as swiftly!

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[tk-093]

Hold down the home key, will show you previous pages visited. You can close them if you want. I find no reason to close them as I am having wonderful battery life, and with that 2GB of Ram, things move just as swiftly!

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I don't think that closes them, just removes them from that list. At least that's what it does on stock Android 4.x

 

[bkorver]

It's baked in to the OS. Press the multi task button (press and hold home button for about 2 seconds) and start swiping stuff side to side to close.

 

[xliderider]

I use Task Panel Xtra to kill off all running apps. I don't use it in auto mode though, just when I want to close everything down manually.

 

[gsxr150]

Yes, looks like the "hold down home" does it! Thanks!

 

[Forgetful]

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[Dunbar42]

Hold down the home button to bring up the multi task menu. Then click on "task manager" and hit "end all."