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iPhone X How To Clear RAM on iPhone X
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Settings>General>Accessibility>Bold Text. This will produce a respring of the phone.
You have to go to Settings and turn on assistive touch. Then go to settings and press shut down there. Then when the slide to shut down appears click on the assistive touch icon and hold the home button. Voilaa
I made a video explaining it. Pretty cut and dry. If it’s “not working” for you, it’s user error. Try again
Ugh, what a pain in the rear compared to the old method! Thanks for posting though-at least it’s possible.
First at home page, you swipe up from the bottom and hold. Something will pop up just just like after you double click the home page on older versions of iPhones. Next, you can’t swipe up to clear the ram like older iPhones. U have to again click and hold one of the pages and then a red button in circle with a -sign will appear on the top left hand corner. Click on each to clear each of the app.
It was a real feature. Devs use this method a lot to clear ram
Not related really but thought I'd mention it. This works on my 8+. Thanks.
The proper way to force or hard restart your iPhone X is different.
You have to be fast but not stupid fast.
Volume up, then volume down, then hold the side button.
The power off will appear but it won’t have the emergency swipe bar at the bottom. Just keep holding the side button until you see the Apple logo. That’s how you hard start your iPhone X which clears the ram.
Every computer device saves quick memory to ram so that apps can load faster.
Now after I play 30 mins of FFXV Pocket edition my phone is storing that games framework so that I can jump back to it and keep playing so other apps are slowed. Now Apple does dump after 4 apps or so that have opened but if those apps aren’t memory hogs it might keep that memory for that app that wants 2 gigs of ram for functionality. Processing power can run cooler when there is sufficient ram to handle repetitive processes that occur within an app. So if your phone is getting warm try a force or hard restart to clean out that ram. Sometimes closing apps is not good enough.
You can I just posted in there
Press Volume up, then press volume down, then hold side button until the screen goes blank and the Apple logo shows up. Ram is cleared and you’re all good!
1) Open up an app
2) hold the delete bar at bottom of iphone X and slowly drag upwards towards centre of screen
3) press and hold on one of apps and the minus sign - appears on em all,
4) simply delete em one by one? or swipe app upwards to clear
That reboots the phone, similar to holding the power and home button on a 6s and older iPhone, or the power and volume down on a 7/8 series.
I could've sworn I once read the following for iPhone (before X):
Hold down the power button until 'Slide to Power Off' and 'Cancel' appear; press and hold 'Cancel' until it returns to the Home Screen.
So with iPhone X you'd press volume up, volume down then hold the side button until that screen appears.
Hold down the power button until 'Slide to Power Off' and 'Cancel' appear; press and hold 'Cancel' until it returns to the Home Screen.
So with iPhone X you'd press volume up, volume down then hold the side button until that screen appears.
Yes it does reboot the phone which clears up the ram. It’s the only way for the X. It cleans up more ram this way then just powering off and on I have noticed.
In Settings, turn on AssisstiveTouch, then click Shut Down (also in Settings). On the screen after Shut Down, click the AssistiveTouch button and then the home button
Actually it's not. This is the only way to clear the RAM without rebooting:
Stop worrying about "closing" apps or "clearing RAM". The apps you see in the app switcher are suspended and don't consume a single CPU cycle. If your foreground app needs RAM the suspended ones will be thrown away by the system.
There are a few exceptions like listening to music, VOIP and so on when the app can actually do something in the background (also background app refresh, but you can turn it off on a per app basis).
If you keep on killing say WhatsApp all the time, and yet launching it dozens of times per day, you are using *more* resources because it needs to be started from scratch every single time.
Just don't do it.
There are a few exceptions like listening to music, VOIP and so on when the app can actually do something in the background (also background app refresh, but you can turn it off on a per app basis).
If you keep on killing say WhatsApp all the time, and yet launching it dozens of times per day, you are using *more* resources because it needs to be started from scratch every single time.
Just don't do it.
