I have an app which is already running in the background, how can I kill that app from background using another application in ios?
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4One iOS app can not kill another. Would you really want some other app to be able to kill your app? "Food Fight!" ;-) – zaph Apr 10 '15 at 12:31
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one ios app can launch another. y not kill?? Coz I am able to trigger the app to background using another app. – Harsha87 Apr 10 '15 at 12:39
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3An iOS app cannot explicitly launch another. An iOS app can send a request to a URL to which an app responds. The app that is opening is allowing itself to be opened. The app making the request is not forcing it. – gudatcomputers Apr 10 '15 at 12:51
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possible duplicate of [iphone killing background apps](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7020691/iphone-killing-background-apps) – Diego Freniche Apr 10 '15 at 14:33
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Sorry, you can't do that. Any iOS apps can't kill any other app; you can open another app but you need to use a custom URL request.
From Apple documentation:
Apps communicate only indirectly with other apps on a device
and you can't say to another app "kill yourself thank you", because you can't kill any app, also your app! You not able to add a button in iOS (just for example) for kill the app.
For more info look at Inter-App Communication documentation by Apple.

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