Now that the phone has been out for a while does the RAM bother anyone?

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vgamedude

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Hey was wondering since the phones been out a while if the lack of RAM bothers anyone. I'm guessing most people who don't do a lot of safari browsing probably aren't bothered by it, I'm mostly speaking of the 6+ but 6 users opinions are welcome to.
 
I have iP6 64 Gig, I use Chrome for browsing the web and it seems to work just fine. I’ve read over at iMore where some people were complaining about the 1Gig of ram and Safari refreshing a lot, but I personally haven’t noticed it.
 
No. I run maximum number of tabs routinely and even then its not a huge issue. Also games run smoothly and no UI lag what so ever. Love my iPhone 6.
 
vgamedude said:
Hey was wondering since the phones been out a while if the lack of RAM bothers anyone. I'm guessing most people who don't do a lot of safari browsing probably aren't bothered by it, I'm mostly speaking of the 6+ but 6 users opinions are welcome to.
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The experience is pretty much the same as on the 5S, so yes I do experience tab reloading which is a result of the lack of RAM and iOS's memory management. If you ever listen to a podcast and pause it to surf the web (4-5 tabs) or launch a different app, there's a good chance the podcast will get terminated.

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The other issue has the potential to be far more serious. While iOS' software architecture is more RAM efficient due to manual garbage collection and the use of precompiled binaries, it's quite easy for me to push the phone past the breaking point in Safari. For example, six tabs of common websites for mobile devices cannot consistently be held in memory. If I continuously go through all six tabs, at least one will need to reload.

In my first attempt at running this test, Safari crashed as I tried to go through all tabs constantly to keep them in memory. I didn't notice this behavior in the new Moto X, which can do the same test without issue. Outside of memory intensive use cases though, the iPhone 6 does respectably and I usually don't notice the lack of RAM. I have to emphasize that this should be a generally unlikely problem, and that the same behavior can be replicated on the iPhone 5s given the same workload. If you did not have issues with out of memory crashes before, there won't be any issues now.
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Point is, if you never had a problem with it on the 5S, then you're good to go.
 
I haven't really noticed any speed or loading issues at all on my iPhone 6, and I use it fairly heavily.
 
Imory said:
The experience is pretty much the same as on the 5S, so yes I do experience tab reloading which is a result of the lack of RAM and iOS's memory management. If you ever listen to a podcast and pause it to surf the web (4-5 tabs) or launch a different app, there's a good chance the podcast will get terminated.

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Point is, if you never had a problem with it on the 5S, then you're good to go.
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Yeah I figured, I really don't think I'm going to get an iphone 6+ because of this but I wanted to make this thread and get some opinions on it and because I haven't seen a thread on the RAM in a while and was curious how people were fairing with their devices.
 
vgamedude said:
Yeah I figured, I really don't think I'm going to get an iphone 6+ because of this but I wanted to make this thread and get some opinions on it and because I haven't seen a thread on the RAM in a while and was curious how people were fairing with their devices.
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The experience is pretty much the same as before, and given how the iPad Air 2 now has twice the amount of RAM, running the same OS, it's become quite evident what a difference 2 GB of RAM has made.
 
Imory said:
The experience is pretty much the same as before, and given how the iPad Air 2 now has twice the amount of RAM, running the same OS, it's become quite evident what a difference 2 GB of RAM has made.
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Yeah it really sucks because I was looking forward to ios on a bigger screen phone, I just can't justify it to myself yet after all the ram issues I've had and continue to have, with my 4s.


Watched a video on youtube of the iPad Air 2 and a guy had around 12 tabs (if I remember right) switching and scrolling with no problems.
 
vgamedude said:
Yeah it really sucks because I was looking forward to ios on a bigger screen phone, I just can't justify it to myself yet after all the ram issues I've had and continue to have, with my 4s.


Watched a video on youtube of the iPad Air 2 and a guy had around 12 tabs (if I remember right) switching and scrolling with no problems.
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Yeah. There's only so much you can do through software and neither 7.1.2, 8.1 or the iPhone 6 has managed to prove that Apple could improve it. At this point they've done all they can do through software and the phones are just RAM-constrained at this point.

I've tried the 6 and the 6 Plus and what's really holding me back is that despite the otherwise state of the art hardware (CPU, GPU), I fear the RAM is going to become a serious bottleneck for future updates. Other than that it's a very capable phone and one the best all-around devices out there.

The truth of the matter is that technically my iPhone 5 should be better at keeping several tabs/apps simply because it shares the same amount of RAM, but has a smaller memory footprint (64-bit has a larger footprint than 32-bit), which is kind of embarrassing.
 
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since this started as an iphone thread, I'll comment on my 6.
I will give it a +1 for performance. But, I rarely save a tab and refer back to it. if I experience reloading, I don't know it. if I'm composing a long or technical post, i do it in a word processor anyway so as to make it as professional as possible, so that aspect is not a problem for me either.
I have no problems with lagginess or speed. Occasionally, I look at what is in history and freak at the 30 plus tabs that are there, close them all and continue on.
The lack of ram, as it is called, has not been a problem for me.
if only that darn sleep button was on the top.....
 
The ram bothers me all the time. I wanna eat a sandwich and the ram is all in my business. I am like:"Leave me alone ram." And it just doesn't go away.
 
Has not been an issue for me. I don't really have more then 2 tabs open in safari anyway.
 
It's very annoying for me as safari, Tapatalk and other apps seem to reload virtually all the time if I exit out and go back in, even under a minute later. I do not remember my iPhone 5 doing this
 
Not to attack anyone in particular, but questions like this are so obtuse. It would be like asking how you liked the latest Stones album after Keith Richards switched to nickle wound strings instead of the nickle-brass wound ones from the previous album.

I've got a 6+ 128. I routinely have several tabs (running over 9 currently) on Safari, and sometimes switch between them, and sometimes they reload and sometimes they don't. I think page reloads have something to do with the amount of time that they have been 'open', and the website itself forcing a reload.

I'm not the 'average iPhone user', at least I don't think so, and so far the only thing that is in my mind when I use it is 'Will it start crashing', and 'Will I accidentally drop it and toast the screen' (COME ON Otterbox! It's not like you are brand new at manufacturing iPhone cases, HELLO!!!). The amount of RAM isn't even in the top 50. It's not something I can change, so why dwell on it.

I did notice out-of-the-box that the 6+ was a lot faster than my old iPhone. To me, that's a major plus. RAM size hasn't been an issue that I've been aware of, and so far (knock on wood) it's not crashing: It's been a perfect upgrade! Sorry that RAM size is killing it for you...

I suspect that Apple didn't up the RAM because so many people don't keep their iPhones for more than a year or so. They also figured that the iPad user would be using the 'net more, and other harder apps and would need the larger running room more. Wait until next year for the 6s+ if it bothers you that much.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
Not to attack anyone in particular, but questions like this are so obtuse. It would be like asking how you liked the latest Stones album after Keith Richards switched to nickle wound strings instead of the nickle-brass wound ones from the previous album.

I've got a 6+ 128. I routinely have several tabs (running over 9 currently) on Safari, and sometimes switch between them, and sometimes they reload and sometimes they don't. I think page reloads have something to do with the amount of time that they have been 'open', and the website itself forcing a reload.

I'm not the 'average iPhone user', at least I don't think so, and so far the only thing that is in my mind when I use it is 'Will it start crashing', and 'Will I accidentally drop it and toast the screen' (COME ON Otterbox! It's not like you are brand new at manufacturing iPhone cases, HELLO!!!). The amount of RAM isn't even in the top 50. It's not something I can change, so why dwell on it.

I did notice out-of-the-box that the 6+ was a lot faster than my old iPhone. To me, that's a major plus. RAM size hasn't been an issue that I've been aware of, and so far (knock on wood) it's not crashing: It's been a perfect upgrade! Sorry that RAM size is killing it for you...

I suspect that Apple didn't up the RAM because so many people don't keep their iPhones for more than a year or so. They also figured that the iPad user would be using the 'net more, and other harder apps and would need the larger running room more. Wait until next year for the 6s+ if it bothers you that much.
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The iPhone isn't a true smartphone then if one has to use another device for web browsing. The 1GB of RAM *sucks* and it has sucked since the iPhone 5 came out over two years ago.
 
Now that the phone has been out for a while does the RAM bother anyone?

PinkyMacGodess said:
Not to attack anyone in particular, but questions like this are so obtuse. It would be like asking how you liked the latest Stones album after Keith Richards switched to nickle wound strings instead of the nickle-brass wound ones from the previous album.

I've got a 6+ 128. I routinely have several tabs (running over 9 currently) on Safari, and sometimes switch between them, and sometimes they reload and sometimes they don't. I think page reloads have something to do with the amount of time that they have been 'open', and the website itself forcing a reload.

I'm not the 'average iPhone user', at least I don't think so, and so far the only thing that is in my mind when I use it is 'Will it start crashing', and 'Will I accidentally drop it and toast the screen' (COME ON Otterbox! It's not like you are brand new at manufacturing iPhone cases, HELLO!!!). The amount of RAM isn't even in the top 50. It's not something I can change, so why dwell on it.

I did notice out-of-the-box that the 6+ was a lot faster than my old iPhone. To me, that's a major plus. RAM size hasn't been an issue that I've been aware of, and so far (knock on wood) it's not crashing: It's been a perfect upgrade! Sorry that RAM size is killing it for you...

I suspect that Apple didn't up the RAM because so many people don't keep their iPhones for more than a year or so. They also figured that the iPad user would be using the 'net more, and other harder apps and would need the larger running room more. Wait until next year for the 6s+ if it bothers you that much.
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"Wait for the next iPhone" is not exactly a solution, and "people don't keep phones for more than a year" is not a reason to not put more RAM into the 6 plus. The apps and Safari tabs constantly reloading is something that could have been avoided. The devices are close to $1,000 not $50. When you pay a premium for a top of the line device, neither the consumer nor Apple's intentions are/should be to accept a lower standard. Also, I doubt Apple was ever assuming iPhone users don't use their phone for web browsing intensively. In turn, a person shouldn't have to find a work-around for their tabs constantly reloading when trying to perform a task and then having to get out of it for a moment. This also eats up data. If a company releases the functionality to even use a phone to make credit card payments, how and why would it not be made to surf the web many times per day? These are essentially mini computers now, and that is what we pay for. Not texting devices
 
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