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Did anybody notice any major improvements regarding to low memory conditions on the iPad Airs?

It seems like they've focused more on the iPhones again, the iPad doesn't seem to get a lot of love in this round. The NC is all messed up, the low memory conditions are still crashing apps all over the place that uses Webkit, the slow stutters all over the place (keyboard, spotlight) and so on.

There really isn't a fix for that specific problem as it was Apple's poor decision making, just like it was back when iPad 3 released, and the same when iPod touch 4th gen got 256MB Instead of the 512MB in RAM. iPad Air SHOULD have had at LEAST 2GB of RAM. Sure the iPhone 5s can deal with 1GB but its a PHONE not a TABLET....
 
There really isn't a fix for that specific problem as it was Apple's poor decision making, just like it was back when iPad 3 released, and the same when iPod touch 4th gen got 256MB Instead of the 512MB in RAM. iPad Air SHOULD have had at LEAST 2GB of RAM. Sure the iPhone 5s can deal with 1GB but its a PHONE not a TABLET....

Yes, I know about the memory issue related to the 64-bit apps, but that's not what I'm seeing.

First, low memory conditions shouldn't be crashing apps as soon as you start using the webviews, whereas the apps without the web view are working just fine. For an example, Feedly app, it works consistently fine as long as I don't open a web view in it. As soon as I start doing that, it crashes.

The same for Twitterrific and Felix, they all work fine as long as I don't open any web views. As soon as I do, they start crashing.

Hell, even once in a while, I only opened one tab in Safari before it starts crashing. Sorry but one tab does not eat up more than 512mb of memory. The iOS should be terminating all the backgrounded apps before it starts crashing. I mean even Safari 7 on Mavericks loading this page is eating only 300MB.

I haven't even seen any games crashes yet on iOS 7, and that's generally the type of apps that'd eat up most of the memory.

The only technical difference between iPhone 5S and iPad Air, is that iPad Air have more pixels to push. Beside that, they're the same identical hardware running the same identical OS. Yes, the iPad Air would have less memory, however, that's not an excuse for memory leaks leading to crashes if it is the Safari that's the cause here.
 
Tested on iphone 5.

With reduced motion off the animation for opening apps is ever so slightly faster compared to a device on the preview firmware.

Still rotation lag with keyboard. Multitasking lag when selecting another app and a bit of lag sometimes with scrolling through the app cards.

If you turn on reduce motion though it now works with multitasking so you obviously won't see lag when selecting an app with it enabled.

If you have assistive touch enabled then you'll still see more lag than usual.
 
Tested on iphone 5.

With reduced motion off the animation for opening apps is ever so slightly faster compared to a device on the preview firmware.

Still rotation lag with keyboard. Multitasking lag when selecting another app and a bit of lag sometimes with scrolling through the app cards.

If you turn on reduce motion though it now works with multitasking so you obviously won't see lag when selecting an app with it enabled.

If you have assistive touch enabled then you'll still see more lag than usual.

Weird. All that stuff is smooth for me on my iPhone 5.
 
7.1 beta 1 smoother?

I have a 5s and I've never seen a pause like this.

There is a slight pause present on the 5s. It is in no way 1 to 2 seconds long though. It is more noticeable on apps that still use the iOS 6 style, i.e. the black bar at the top of the app. I don't know if it still exists in the 7.1 beta though. It's there on 7.0.4 though.
 
There is a slight pause present on the 5s. It is in no way 1 to 2 seconds long though. It is more noticeable on apps that still use the iOS 6 style, i.e. the black bar at the top of the app. I don't know if it still exists in the 7.1 beta though. It's there on 7.0.4 though.

it's still present in 7.1 beta. Although like you said, it is more apparent on the non iOS 7 status bars.
 
I hear everyone talking about lag in animations, but my air lags in other, basic, parts as well... Scrolling through the App Store or even the system settings is not smooth sometimes. It seems to come and go. should I be worried? Is this normal? I just don't want to keep this unit if there is something wrong with it. Everything else seems fine.
 
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