If you have an iPhone, or other smartphone, this article has some tips on 5 bad habits you might possibly have with your smartphone, and which should be stopped to prolong the life of your phone. I've read elsewhere it is also a good idea to turn your phone off for a few moments about once a week -- and perhaps your iPad as well. And at least daily, close all apps running in the background, to free up memory and perhaps prolong battery life.

And some of these tips would apply to your iPad as well -- especially the tip about frequently closing all running apps to free up memory. A case in point -- the other morning at breakfast I was going to read the news on my iPad, and couldn't get the NYT newspaper to open., It dawned on me -- I had forgotten to close all the running apps and didn't have enough memory left to open the NYT, which probably had some pictures, or some videos, which comprise lots of pixels. I closed those running apps, and life was good again!...😚...

So, remember to close those running apps.

Jim Hamm