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Megapickle

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Dec 2, 2018
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My XS has connectivity issues. I’m constantly toggling airplane mode and clearing RAM (which seems to be a temporary workaround).

Other than apps and websites having to reload, does frequent resetting of the RAM have any negative effects on the phone or performance?
 
That phone has 3 GB of ram, so lack of ram isn't the problem. I'd only force quit all the apps if the task switcher/app switcher gets too cluttered with too many of them to be useful or maybe at the end of the day before shutting down.
I know that on my iPhone 6+, (with 1 GB of ram) that if I never occasionally force quit all the junk in the task switcher, I can definitely feel the phone slow down a bit. I notice more hesitation & lag doing stuff if the task switcher is chocked full of frozen apps.
 
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At least once a day, Safari and all other apps will hang as if there was no internet connection. 95% of the time I can temporarily resolve this by toggling airplane mode on and off.

Every so often the phone is still hanging after toggling airplane mode. What seems to work for me is to clear the RAM with Assistive touch. YMMV
 
Every now and then safari hangs up on me and when I clear my ram it allows it to work for me. Same on my iPad.
 
That phone has 3 GB of ram, so lack of ram isn't the problem. I'd only force quit all the apps if the task switcher/app switcher gets too cluttered with too many of them to be useful or maybe at the end of the day before shutting down.
I know that on my iPhone 6+, (with 1 GB of ram) that if I never occasionally force quit all the junk in the task switcher, I can definitely feel the phone slow down a bit. I notice more hesitation & lag doing stuff if the task switcher is chocked full of frozen apps.
XS and XS Max have 4gb ram...
 
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