This is the only thing I don't like about the 6 Plus (although iOS 9.x has helped). Glad to see they finally boosted the RAM. A little ticked that I'm stuck with my Plus for another year.
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Xcode Confirms 2GB of RAM in iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, 4GB of RAM in iPad Pro
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Should have been 2 GB in the first place. The way apps refresh is my number one dislike of my 6+. It is beyond frustrating to type something in one app, multitask to safari to check something, and then come back to see my text obliterated.
Apple does focus on specs, though--every year they talk about GPU and CPU performance. I would argue that RAM limitations are more impactful to a user's experience than processor speed. But I guess it's easier to communicate that "it's faster" than "2 GB means your apps will refresh less".
Apple does focus on specs, though--every year they talk about GPU and CPU performance. I would argue that RAM limitations are more impactful to a user's experience than processor speed. But I guess it's easier to communicate that "it's faster" than "2 GB means your apps will refresh less".
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Yeth but what about the iPad Mini 4 ?
Finally a 2 GB ram upgrade. Though I'm coming from a 6 Plus, I placed a reservation for the 6S Plus.
Maybe this'll mitigate the whining for a while.
My only gripe is if I was Apple I would of promoted the 2GB as the competition now have a rediculous amount of memory and cores yet the lack of optimisation and bloatware cripples them.
damn it, 2gb isn't enough! we need 3gb of ram on the iphone or there's simply no point buying one. biggest fail of the year. /s
Has anyone who's used both a 6 and 6+ extensively noticed that this problem is worse on the 6+? I don't remember it being that bad on my iPhone 5, which also had 1GB RAM but a lot fewer pixels, no background refresh, no app extensions, no today widgets, no watch extensions, etc.. I'm honestly still surprised they'll be selling the 6 Plus for another year (if not longer), RAM hobbles the longevity of it.
Lol you're being sarcastic but around a year from now that's what people here will be saying when the iPhone 7 is revealed to have the same 2GB of RAM that the 6S has.
Lmao. I can't believe I laughed at that.
they'd be partially right. 2gb on a high end premium phone isn't a "good" amount, it's the bare minimum it should have. now we have enough, but that's it. it's still not a generous amount.
Well, they think users have nothing to with specs like ram and shouldn't worry about such things.
Exactly, the average consumer/computer user simply doesn't understand the difference between RAM and hard drive space (I deal with them every day). Apple does it's best to make things clear, anyone can understand "the brain of your device is 1.8x faster" or "Games are going to be smoother than ever", but good luck getting anyone off the street to understand "paging will occur less often".
What about iPad mini 4? They said it was the same internals as the Air 2 but it only has an A8 instead of A8X, so RAM should probably still be confirmed.
The 6s should be pretty fast. 2GB of RAM and apparently 70% CPU and 90% GPU!!
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so iPhone 6 Plus is like the iPad 3
People say that, but a year with my 6 Plus, and owning an iPad 3...the two are completely different. The iPad 3's main problem was processor and graphics, not RAM. Even when it was new, iPad 3 had problems with games, and it would get smoking hot just using it. The iPhone 6 Plus has non of that. It's still super smooth, it still plays games like a champ, and it's a fantastic experience overall. Even after a year, and with iOS9, it's still a soild device. iPad 3 was already pretty much dead with iOS 7.
The RAM "problem" with the 6 Plus is only evident if you keep switching apps. Other than that, it's a very fast and very smooth iOS device, which cannot be said about the iPad 3 even when it was brand new.