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Why doesn't apple want us to have a task killer or memory cleaner
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Pointless. Interfering with IOS memory management isn't helping anything. This is not Android or Windows! Leave it alone. 
Since Apple allows this you can be sure it is doing absolutely nothing....
Since Apple allows this you can be sure it is doing absolutely nothing....
Thank goodness I left behind worries about RAM management when I moved from Android to iPhone. Android manages the RAM too, but somehow it wouldn't always work smoothly and the phone RAM would need to cleared out.
Great. An app that's designed to slow down my phone.
Thanks for telling us about this.
Wow, so much misinformation here, as a dev this thread is pretty funny
Yes, the app probably does what it says. Somebody else already got it right - i'll just demand all of the memory for itself, and the OS will quietly kill any apps that are sleeping in the background. It then releases all of that memory, and congratulations: your memory is mostly empty!
But why the hell do you want your memory emptying?
It won't make the system any quicker, because whenever an app needs more memory it asks for it and the system frees it up. If you do this in advance then yes, you won't have to wait for the system to do this, but you'll have wasted much more time running the memory freeing app so overall YOU LOSE.
Worse, when you come to open an app that was in the background, you've killed it. That means it has to load up from scratch and you have to get back to where you were. Again - YOU LOSE.
Battery life? Those background apps aren't actually running, they're only waiting in memory. The battery hit from this is near zero. But if you've killed them, when you open them again they have to do quite a bit of work to start up which eats battery. And clearing the memory also eats battery. Again, YOU LOSE.
So, an app that's bad for speed, bad for productivity, and bad for battery life. What a great idea
Yes, the app probably does what it says. Somebody else already got it right - i'll just demand all of the memory for itself, and the OS will quietly kill any apps that are sleeping in the background. It then releases all of that memory, and congratulations: your memory is mostly empty!
But why the hell do you want your memory emptying?
It won't make the system any quicker, because whenever an app needs more memory it asks for it and the system frees it up. If you do this in advance then yes, you won't have to wait for the system to do this, but you'll have wasted much more time running the memory freeing app so overall YOU LOSE.
Worse, when you come to open an app that was in the background, you've killed it. That means it has to load up from scratch and you have to get back to where you were. Again - YOU LOSE.
Battery life? Those background apps aren't actually running, they're only waiting in memory. The battery hit from this is near zero. But if you've killed them, when you open them again they have to do quite a bit of work to start up which eats battery. And clearing the memory also eats battery. Again, YOU LOSE.
So, an app that's bad for speed, bad for productivity, and bad for battery life. What a great idea
I actually had a app a long time ago (on my iPhone 3GS) called 'MemorySweep' or something along those lines that actually did clear RAM. It's not in the app store anymore though.
xp wasn't bad at it, frees memory after program exits. When Vista/7 came it introduced superfetch retaining programs in memory to speed up launching and frees only when need similar to how iOS handles memory now.
winMe was so bad i forgot it even existed lol
winMe was so bad i forgot it even existed lol
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there is an app called system status that will clear up memory they kinda try to hide it tho
Is there a good reason
edit: inb4 a bunch people say the OS 'doesn't need it'
there is an app called system status that will clear up memory they kinda try to hide it tho
Is there a good reason
edit: inb4 a bunch people say the OS 'doesn't need it'
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So the equivalent of Activity Monitor or Task Manager on an iPhone? Seriously? It doesn't really fit into the intuitive and simple user experience philosophy I reckon.
There is a good reason.
It doesn't need one.
If an app is causing a problem for you, you can manually kill it. However 99% of the time you don't need to worry about it.
My mum has an iPhone and she has no idea how to kill apps, she must have hundreds of apps in her recently used list, and her battery lasts for days.
It doesn't need one.
If an app is causing a problem for you, you can manually kill it. However 99% of the time you don't need to worry about it.
My mum has an iPhone and she has no idea how to kill apps, she must have hundreds of apps in her recently used list, and her battery lasts for days.
And manually shutting down dozens of apps through a time consuming single file closing ritual is easier?
A task killer makes sense because with so many 3rd party apps then the best way to troubleshoot which app is problematic is to kill them all.
Wait, doesn't that last bit make the opposite of sense? Isn't the best way to troubleshoot which app is problematic to kill them one by one and wait between each one to see when the issue is eventually cleared? How does killing them all at once isolate the problematic one?
You aren't running "dozens or apps" with 512MB of RAM."Kill them all" isn't much more efficient then restarting. And restarting is probably a more complete solution if you are having a problem that requires killing everything.
is it bad restarting daily
"Kill them all" isn't much more efficient then restarting. And restarting is probably a more complete solution if you are having a problem that requires killing everything.