When is Apple going to put 16 GB RAM in their iPhone’s?
Apps reloading because of insufficient memory is not flagship status in 2022.
Apps reloading because of insufficient memory is not flagship status in 2022.
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They have a task force working on finally getting the silliest spelling and typing “mistake’s” taken care of. RAM will come as a next project for that group.
Maybe there’s a specific app that could use a lot of RAM but almost none of them need it.
My iPhone has 3 GB of RAM (iOS 14) and I have a RAM widget installed so I can see how much memory is getting consumed. I’ve NEVER seen it drop to anywhere near total utilization- ever.
For comparison, I’ve got an old iPhone 6 too that only has 1 GB of RAM and that phone runs out of memory all the time.
My iPhone has 3 GB of RAM (iOS 14) and I have a RAM widget installed so I can see how much memory is getting consumed. I’ve NEVER seen it drop to anywhere near total utilization- ever.
For comparison, I’ve got an old iPhone 6 too that only has 1 GB of RAM and that phone runs out of memory all the time.
Go to settings and open assistive touch and use it to clear the ram. When you touch the gray circle It will open and you’ll see the Home button. Go through the motion of shutting off your iPhone and instead of swiping to turn off, hold your finger on the home button in assistive touch until you are brought to the screen asking you to sign in. This method clears the ram on your iPhone. Most people don’t know this and most iPhone users hardly reboot their iPhone.
The current 6GB is plenty. Even so far as to save overkill. I don’t see Apple increasing the RAM past 6GB for a few years. There is nothing on the iPhone that requires for than 6GB of RAM. If you need more RAM, buy an iPad Pro.
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Doesn't work. Even my M1 12.9 iPad Pro with 8GB RAM has apps reloading under regular use. Apple needs to stop being cheap and put 16 GB RAM in their flagship devices.
No wonder Apple is the most profitable company in the world by charging flagship prices for non-flagship specs.
The 1 and 2 TB options in the M1 Pros have 16gb of RAM, why not go with that?
I think iOS will kill apps in the background under certain circumstances even if you had 64 GB of RAM installed. It’s just the way it’s designed.
There’s times I’ve got over 1.5 GB of memory free yet when I return to a small background paused app after some time, it still has to reload. It’s not reloading because there was a memory shortage and it got killed, it has to reload because iOS killed it after a certain amount of time anyway.
There’s times I’ve got over 1.5 GB of memory free yet when I return to a small background paused app after some time, it still has to reload. It’s not reloading because there was a memory shortage and it got killed, it has to reload because iOS killed it after a certain amount of time anyway.
Apple's goal is to have really fast storage in their devices so that not as much RAM is needed. That's what they've been doing in the M1 Macs anyway.
In my experience there is enough RAM on iPhones nowadays. Surely depend the SE 2016, 6s and maybe the 7 „run out“ fairly quickly with recent versions of iOS, my 11 Pro is fine, but optimisation took a couple hits with iOS 14 and 15, as mentioned often over the years, and it’s still not great again and definitely depends on the apps used.
I have a public traffic app, whatever it’s called in English, and I often come back to it a day or two after I last used it to find it right where I left it.
Still, Safari and Podcasts often crash or get wiped off the RAM (for me at least).
More RAM isn’t the answer, it’d only increase the cost of the device and RAM in general (demand and supply).
I have a public traffic app, whatever it’s called in English, and I often come back to it a day or two after I last used it to find it right where I left it.
Still, Safari and Podcasts often crash or get wiped off the RAM (for me at least).
More RAM isn’t the answer, it’d only increase the cost of the device and RAM in general (demand and supply).
how many tabs & groups do you have open in all your browsers? Curious if significant, if reduced would alleviate some of the issues you have?
Your going to be waiting a very long time for a 16GB RAM iPhone. Probably never. It's a phone. not a computer
If anything it’s the computer most of us interact with the most. And of course, sometimes, to some, it also does phone calls.
Well seeing I’ve never encountered an app needing to reload, I’d tend to agree with you - it’s not a thing
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You're right. All us Apple-haters should lobby Apple to more than double the amount of RAM they put in their iPhones.
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Add at least $100 to the price of the phone, likely much more. Also increase the idle power-draw of the phone to keep the extra RAM modules fed. All to save maybe one second of wait time re-opening an app you haven't used in a while, and even then only if Apple makes significant changes to iOS to stop it aggressively saving RAM, which would massively screw over anyone with an older device.
It's not practical to multi-task on an iPhone, the screen, even on the Pro Max, is much too small.
Might I suggest that instead of buying an iPhone 13/14 Pro Max Ultra Whatever, if RAM is a concern, you would be better off buying a basic smartphone to do smartphone related things (iPhone SE, iPhone 13, or one of hundreds of Android alternatives) and use the money you save to buy an iPad or M1 MB Air to do the tasks that are far more suited to them.
I’m still on iOS 13, but I can’t remember the last time I hit a memory limit on my OG iPhone SE with 2GB. Do 14 and 15 make it noticeably worse?
I also have a 5S (with a measly 1 GB RAM) I use regularly and it’ll occasionally hit memory issues with a heavy webpage, but pretty rarely. My original iPad mini on iOS 9 with 512 MB, on the other hand, had out-of-memory crashes on webpages constantly.
Apple doesn't need to add $100 to offer flagship specs on their flagship phone. How else you think Apple is the most valuable company in the world?
Apple can easily put 16 GB RAM in their flagship phones if they wanted to so that apps stop reloading.
And I already got a M1 12.9 iPad Pro (which also suffers from apps reloading because it only has 8GB of RAM).
Then you overbought a $1200+ phone, while a $200 would be sufficient for you. A flagship $1200+ phone isn't just meaned for just checking e-mails and facebook.
Personally, I like that my iPhone 12 Pro is still one of the most responsive and smooth working phones on the market, even though it's a year and a half old, but sure, you go for numbers in specs and call them "non-flagship".