Applications

About multitasking

Your BlackBerry® device 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 memory and battery power your device uses. To optimize the performance of
your device, try to close applications when you are finished with them.
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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 does not appear, click the Home screen 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
screen 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 application so that it is not running in the background

To optimize the performance of your BlackBerry® device, try to close applications when you are finished with them.
In an application, do one of the following actions:
Press the key > Close.
Press the key. If necessary, continue to press the key until the Home screen appears.
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