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Fear not friends, I have found a cure for iOS 7's lagginess!
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This one of the lesser educated things I've ever seen said on this forum.
No. It is not true.
7.1 is noticeably faster then 7.0 is. The stability in the latest beta is good too. Ram is an issue if you are going back and forth across several apps (3+) but that's the only time I'm seeing it right now. I don't know if ram is the big offender so much as it seems like a lot of the graphic stack changed in 7.0. 7.1 seems more optimized in general.
Nyet, comrade! It is due to badly optimised software.
Yeah, you get Android devices with more RAM. But have you ever seen the amount of crap that Samsung pre-load on their phones and tablets? As you can see here, a 16GB Samsung Galaxy S4 only has 8.5GB free out-of-the-box. They really need 2GB of RAM.
My iPod touch 5G ran 6.1.3 very well. It ran 7.0.4 pretty badly. And it runs 7.1 really well. 7.1 runs better because they've actually polished, tweaked and optimised it. Software updates can't fix hardware problems, much like deodorant can't fix ugly.
I'm a developer and I'm responsible for some pretty hefty web systems. Let me tell you, a few small parts of a system that aren't written optimally can make all the difference between a smooth, fast, responsive system; and a database server that keeps falling over under excessive load.
It's obvious in 7.1 that Apple have found those little "non-optimal" parts of iOS and tweaked them. It's not surprising that these parts found their way into iOS 7, since it had a major rework of the UI.
When I originally posted that reply this thread was still in the general iPhone section.
Really? Once your phone is out of ram it get's laggy as hell. You clear your ram and phone is super responsive again.... How interesting... If you don't have anything good to say do not try to insult, but instruct as to why is not "educated" to say this...
Where is your solution? Have you presented it to Apple? But since this is a JB forum, I am pretty sure you have a "tweak/mod" that solves the laggy OS.
Yes, the lag on iOS is not caused by lack of ram.
As an iOS and jailbreak developer, I can assure you that at any given time, your device has more than enough ram to keep going without lag, probably over 50MB on A4/5 or 400MB on A6/7.
RAM on iOS is managed differently than it is on a desktop UNIX environment like OSX. On OSX, you are most certainly correct. Low levels of RAM will slow down your environment and you will need to close things and do other stuff to free up ram.
However, on iOS this is NOT how RAM works. RAM is constantly filled by application states, caches, background downloads/etc which is what actually keeps iOS pretty damn snappy! It's the reason an iPhone 5/S drops down to less than half the 'theoretically available' RAM shortly after turning it on - it's committing things to memory so iOS can be more responsive and spend less time on the CPU and more on the data it has already stored.
So, in essence, free RAM is wasted RAM. When you 'clear RAM' you're removing everything the device has cached in RAM and probably slowing your device down more.
To be clear as well, my comment wasn't meant to be an insult, just a genuine observation of a consistently mis-stated fact.
You're right. There's a lot provided by the system to keep things going smoothly and minimize the need of background processes.
Yes, having more memory is always good. The slow downs that came up from iOS 7 though have more to do with short development timelines and optimizations in the system that weren't in place yet.
Beautifully put. Not so much 'poor execution' as it was 'nonexistent optimization that was rampant in iOS 6'
I don't know if I'd go as far saying nonexistent. During iOS 7 beta the performance would go up and down from release to release. Virtually nonexistent I could get behind though
