Okay so, starting next week, all the upcoming iPhone and most of the iPad will come with a minimum of 8GB of RAM, a big step up from the 4 or 6GB of RAM we were used to with the iPhone 14 & 15.
So that makes me wonder if devices with just 4GB of RAM, which has been a standard for many years with the iPhone XS, 11, 11 Pro, 12, 12 Pro, 13, 13 mini & SE 3, will start to struggle at some point before losing support.
The first mainstream device with 6GB of RAM were the 13 Pro (2021) and the 14 (2022), and this year (2024) we’re having 8GB across the board.
Do you think…
a) all the devices with 4GB will lose support at once? Or we will see it in two or three waves: first iPhone XS & 11/Pro, then iPhone 14, then finally 13, 13 Pro & SE3?
b) the performance of the latter 4GB of RAM devices, such as the A15, will show big issues of low RAM?
How do you imagine this, currently perfectly capable devices, running iOS 19 or 20? Maybe without Apple Intelligence, the RAM usage is more optimized…
So that makes me wonder if devices with just 4GB of RAM, which has been a standard for many years with the iPhone XS, 11, 11 Pro, 12, 12 Pro, 13, 13 mini & SE 3, will start to struggle at some point before losing support.
The first mainstream device with 6GB of RAM were the 13 Pro (2021) and the 14 (2022), and this year (2024) we’re having 8GB across the board.
Do you think…
a) all the devices with 4GB will lose support at once? Or we will see it in two or three waves: first iPhone XS & 11/Pro, then iPhone 14, then finally 13, 13 Pro & SE3?
b) the performance of the latter 4GB of RAM devices, such as the A15, will show big issues of low RAM?
How do you imagine this, currently perfectly capable devices, running iOS 19 or 20? Maybe without Apple Intelligence, the RAM usage is more optimized…