I never thought I would say this, but it seems that Safari is now finally ACTUALLY made snappier with the addition of an extra gigabyte of memory. 
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Video Shows Benefits of 2GB RAM in iPhone 6s
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Apple should've done that long time ago. iPhone 6 should've gotten that, but they didn't. Apple is too greedy.
My iPhone 5 reloads tabs just rotating to several apps prior to going back to Safari - a common usage pattern for me while traveling, about 30 times daily! Very frustrating. I will be getting the 6S next month for that reason alone - I told myself that if RAM wasn't increased, I wasn't upgrading. The better camera, TouchID, two and a half times or so faster, 3D touch wasn't enough.
While it is common that I have something filled out in a text field before returning to Safari, it is always still there after a page reload. Clearly something is saved in memory, but it is not the entire page as nothing reloads without an internet connection.
Check what I said, I clearly talked about the future.I don't see why you would need more than 8GB of ram in iOS device. By all means work on trying to be right.
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Only a big deal if you have little to no patience. A second of time worth a new phone?
When Apple announced the iPhone 6s, they didn't mention that the new iPhones carry 2GB of RAM, an increase from 1GB on the iPhone 6. The 2GB RAM was later confirmed in Xcode and benchmarks. This increased RAM allows the iPhone to keep more Apps and data active in memory.
iDownloadBlog recorded this video showing the difference between the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6s after loading several websites in Safari:
The iPhone 6s is able to keep more websites active in memory without requiring a reload when returning to the tab. The additional RAM should also allow more apps to remain active in memory without relaunching.
The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus just launched on Friday.
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Good or bad, I am sticking with my 6+ here till the 7+; and hopefully after seeing some of the 6s+ - the 7s+! There are other things I can be spending my hard earned $ for than a phone every year or so.
Why does Apple put so little ram, which likely costs them in the $1-$2 per GB range, in such an expensive phone?
"A second of time" wouldn't be that much, but as you also lose your scrolling position in a longer article and/or data you've entered to a half completed form gets wiped, that's when the lack of RAM is getting super annoying. Those take quite a lot more than just a second to recover.
I'd agree for the most part, but I think there are some interesting applications of wireless charging. Some of the new cars come with wireless charging built into the center console where many people put their phones. It would be really useful to be able to just set down your phone and have it charge while driving.
2gb of ram won't fit in my pants, nobody will buy it. I hope next year they go back to 1 gb.
Same reason they haven't increased the 16GB base model to 32GB.
I am. HUGE night and day difference (had 6 Plus, now have 6S Plus). Just like I can never go back to a computer with a spinning disk after SSD, I cannot go back to less than 2 GB RAM on a phone now.
When I upgrade my iPad 3 to iPad Pro in a couple months it's going to be an even more dramatic difference, what a pig that iPad was (screen still looks great though).
He is confirming an expected effect. That alone isn't proof but it is supporting the working hypothesis. And everybody with a little bit of understanding of how computers work will tell you that the reloading of tabs is due to them being cleared from memory earlier. How many tabs you can keep open has also always scaled with the inverse of the data weight of the tabs open. Have you ever looked at the RAM footprint of your desktop browser with many content-heavy tabs open (in particular compared to only have one tab open)? It's often multiple gigabytes. A smartphone tab will load smaller amounts of data because it displays less on its smaller display but then that 1 GB of RAM had to be shared with the OS and other apps. And you can actually run apps that show you the memory usage (though not per process, only the general categories of wired, active, inactive and free) and lo and behold the phone is getting low in memory if you load a bunch of big sites in its browser.
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, it usually is a duck. And I am 100% sure that somebody with a jailbroken iPhone can actually confirm the obvious (that the phone is able to allocate more RAM to Safari on the 6s and 6s plus).
I'm almost there with my current aftermarket wireless car charger for my Nexus 5. Just place the phone in the charger and squeeze the vertical supports to hold the phone in its place. A quick one-handed operation all the way through. As an added bonus the cord for the charger can be tucked out of the way since it doesn't need to be dealt with, so it's not hanging there and getting tangled around the gear stick like the Lightning cable I use for charging my iPhone does.
It's worst on my iPad 3 (which also has 1 GB of RAM but has a higher resolution screen and sites tend to push more content onto that larger screen). It's not unusual for the maximum number of tabs than can retain their content to be as low as five.
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You're kidding right, nobody could be that naive.
Well still, I don't see iOS progressing to a point of needing more than 8GB anytime in the near future. Of course more ram is always welcome but you're saying that Apple is just plain stingy with ram, suggesting that they will never change. Give Tim Cook a chance to correct some of Jobs' hard-headed ways of thinking. For one thing Cook gave us a large-screened iPhone to get on the ball with the other bigger screened phones.....although, the first iPhone had the biggest smartphone screen on the market at the time.
Switching to 64-bit can increase memory footprint but when that transition happened on the desktop, the increase was in the single percentage points, if it was noticeable at all. So I am a bit sceptical of your 20 to 30% claim.
My iPhone 6s feels a lot faster in comparison to 6 and I did not have safari tab reloads before. Just feels very fluid now
Actually I have noticed a big difference when switching between apps. For example I can be playing a game, like Angry Birds and switch to Tapatalk and go right back into the game. That wasn't possible before. It used to be necessary to reload the game all over again.