The iPod touch and their platform, namely iOS, dynamically allocates system memory, allocating separate areas for background and main tasks. During this mode, memory usage for inactive program tasks is temporarily stopped.
The nuances of RAM on iOS
Basically, iOS does an excellent job of allocating RAM. This makes it possible to have access to those applications that are used more often and respond faster. The operating system does not provide for the task of organizing and disposing of information garbage in the form of objects that were not required by programs. Therefore, some applications can borrow a certain segment of memory and refuse to free it in response to an OS request. It is logical that the performance of the gadget is drastically reduced.
Loyal cleaning of RAM
Usually, gadget users, when such a problem occurs, resort to rebooting. But there is another way to clean up the RAM in a more system-loyal way.
- Unlock your gadget.
- Press its power button and hold the position until the shutdown sign appears.
- But instead of using this slider, press and hold the Home button (5-15 seconds) until the home screen appears.
This scheme is responsible for reloading the SpringBoard system application, which is responsible for the main screen. It completely frees memory from those processes that are inactive.
Using this algorithm eliminates the deletion of the task manager or applications. The task manager stores those applications that have been used recently and are therefore "frozen" in standby mode.
The reason for using the presented algorithm
If open programs stop giving feedback or react very slowly, then the indicated scheme will help to solve the problem. If you clean the RAM while applications are running, they will simply disappear.
Uninstalling apps from Task Manager forcibly has the opposite effect of what you expected: battery life dries up faster, not the other way around, as is commonly thought.
This method will be appreciated by owners of retro iPhone models with less than 1GB of RAM.
Most recently, new smartphones from Apple were presented in Cupertino. In addition to modern technical solutions, they also received a high price. The manufacturer described many of the innovations and characteristics of the new iPhone, but traditionally did not name the amount of RAM of the device. So how much RAM is in the iphone xs? Fortunately, there is a Geekbench benchmark (go from the device you want to know information about), which revealed this secret.
Buyers of the new iPhone Xs can rejoice, as this device is equipped with 4 GB of RAM. This is actually the first iPhone in history with such a large amount of RAM, the same amount of RAM is equipped with the iPhone Xs max. So the iPhone 8 has only 2 GB installed, while the iPhone X and iPhone 8 Plus have a little more, 3 GB of RAM.
Apple never stops saying that RAM is not the most important thing in their smartphones. However, in practice, everything is completely different. Due to the fact that in the new iPhone Xs as much as 4 GB of RAM, the user can truly enjoy the smooth and fast operation of the device. Can be:
- There are many more tabs to open in the device's web browser.
- Perform many different tasks at the same time. Moreover, these tasks can now be quite resource-intensive and complex.
Thus, so as not to say in Apple, a large amount of RAM is only for the benefit of any smartphone, even if it is an iPhone.
Anyone who buys an iPhone Xs will finally be able to play a lot of heavy games on the phone, which previously simply could not be launched on iPhones due to the lack of RAM.
Features of RAM on iPhones
It is worth noting that many users and experts have repeatedly criticized Apple for the size of the RAM in iPhones. So Android fans did not understand how a top-end smartphone can currently function normally on 1 or 2 GB of RAM. Indeed, today there is a large selection of excellent devices on the market with 4, 6 and 8 GB of RAM.
But Android fans simply don't realize that it's all about the iOS operating system. Its automatic algorithms do magic. And now, an iPhone 6 user with a measly 1 GB of RAM can boast of the speed of a smartphone at the level of the best flagships on Android with 3-6 GB of on-board RAM.
Conclusion
If you love Apple products, in particular their smartphones, then the iPhone Xs will only delight you. After all, as many as 4 GB of RAM for an iPhone is a real breakthrough and one of the main innovations of the gadget. The device is so perfect that it would work perfectly even on 3 GB of RAM, but the company decided to make its fans a pleasant surprise and now the question of how much RAM is in the iphone xs is a reason to boast to the owners of this expensive new product.
StandardAs usual: first the video version, and for those who like to read, there will be a text version below.
Video version:
“Why do you need 4 GB of RAM on a ko-ko-ko smartphone. This is not a computer !!! 11 ”- I constantly read such opuses in the comments under my videos. The video was made specifically to explain why I am in favor of increasing the amount of RAM on smartphones. Well, at least let them do a quick swap, but it's even less realistic than seeing 8 GB of RAM on a new smartphone.
Yes, the video is a little oversimplified, I did not say that applications can share as well as Android itself, but that would have inflated my amateur article even more.
Why do we need 2-4-8 GB of opera in smartphones? It's just a phone! In order to answer this question, let's define the concepts. First, a modern smartphone is a fully functional mobile PC based on an OS based on the Linux kernel. Secondly, the majority of users already use smartphones and tablets more intensively than desktop PCs or laptops. I understand that there are gamers, editors, analysts and other professions where you can't do without a good PC with a comfortable large screen. Why really there, I myself work on a PC, but! If you look at the number of programs used daily on a PC and on a smartphone, suddenly it turns out that the smartphone is getting more load than the PC! For many, this comes as a surprise, but you can count it yourself.
Here are some of the apps that I use on my PC and smartphone every day for a week. I removed from the list such programs as Explorer, antivirus, calculator and other background things, like the same Google Play services. Otherwise, this list would have bloated even more. Even just looking at this list, you can understand that installing a large amount of RAM on a smartphone is quite justified. But if I haven't convinced you, then let's see what tasks users assign to PCs and smartphones.
Smartphone RAM
If on a stationary computer we mainly work and play, then for a smartphone the main tasks are content consumption (I mean surfing, YouTube, web services, cube, online magazines, etc.), communication, of course, and navigation, which is implemented in smartphones obscenely better than navigators. Moreover, a smartphone is endowed with much wider capabilities than a computer, hence the situation arises that people have more active programs installed on their smartphones than on a PC or even a laptop.
But then how much memory do we need in a smartphone? In fact, the more the better. It sounds very pop, but I'll explain now what the catch is.
Here are screenshots of three smartphones. All of them are just unpacked and lack only standard installed applications and "pure" Android. Yes, the first smartphone had Yandex Browser preinstalled, and the third had a utility for updating, but they won't do us any good. It would seem that everything is logical, the less RAM in the smartphone, the less free memory is available to us. But, don't you notice anything?
In each of the three cases, the Android system takes up a different amount of RAM. But why is it so? After all, the system is one! Okay, there, TouchWiz can take some 3 gig of RAM with its services, we are already used to this, but then what's the matter?
Like any OS, Android consists of many processes, services (or daemons, as is customary here), modules, and so on. That is, it is a composite structure. If our device does not have enough memory, then we selectively throw out various functions from memory. This does not mean that they will not work, they will simply load more slowly, since they will be stored on flash memory. For example, we can throw out a part of the interface from the RAM, and when the menu is opened, it will not load immediately. On budget models, this happens very often, for example, the ringtone rings, and the application interface has not yet been drawn, and it is impossible to answer the call.
On the other hand, we, on the contrary, can dump all services and system applications from the swap into the RAM, and then our "bare" Android will grow to a gigabyte or even two, but any application loaded there will respond as quickly as the processor allows. True, this is not always possible. Why? Everything is simple. It is enough to see how much RAM at the peak can be consumed by applications. In recent versions of Android, this is very easy.
Lest you accuse me of pointless rhetoric, let's take a specific example, with a specific smartphone. Since we started with the LG G4, let's take a look at its example how much memory the applications requested and calculate how much memory we would like to have "ideally", that is, so that we don't have to resort to flash memory at all.
Here is a real graph of the peak RAM consumption by system applications.... Yes, LG G4 is not the best example, it has a really heavy shell with proprietary services, etc., but that is even more revealing. For the smoothest operation possible without running third-party applications, this device requires about 2600 MB of RAM! Of course, I'm exaggerating a little here, since this is not an average memory consumption, but peak... But that's the point, so that the smartphone does not climb to the flash memory even at peak loads.
If we imagine working with a browser or the Vkontakte and Instagram application, then we will already get almost 4 GB of the occupied RAM space. The fact is that all these social media applications very quickly eat up the available amount of RAM to smoothly display an endless news feed, which is loaded into RAM in order to quickly display it again by swipe. Everything is painfully familiar with the browser. Yes, according to my measurements on this smartphone, it consumed up to 1100 MB of RAM. And what is there to be surprised at?
The same browsers on a PC with the same functionality consume the same amount of memory when browsing intensively. There is nothing unusual about this! But for this we love our bakeries - I inserted 32 GB, and having opened 5-10-20 programs, you always know that it will open as quickly as possible, and will not be pulled from a slow flash memory. Why should we deny ourselves a good amount of RAM in a smartphone?
RAM in iPhone - why doesn't it lag?
And here we smoothly move on to the most important question from the audience: they say, there was only one gigabyte in Apple smartphones and everything worked perfectly! What's the matter ?! Well, let's talk about everything in order.
Let's say we need to run two trivial applications: chrome and instagram. Let me remind you that the first can consume up to 1.5 GB of RAM, and the second about 500 MB with active use. Here you need to understand: regardless of the OS, programs such as a browser cannot consume radically different amounts of memory. Especially if it's the same app! For non-believers, I advise you to run any popular browser benchmark and compare it with the results of cross-platform benchmarks, but more on that separately. There is a difference, but it is so small that it can be neglected. So what's the deal then, you ask? Well, look, when launching these applications, we have no choice - we must use a swap.
There is no “magic” Apple optimization
Both of them will not get into the RAM. Ok, let's say we have an active Instagram, so we swap chrome with several tabs. Again, such a situation will be inevitable, both for the iPhone 6 and for the $ 75 Android budget. In order to understand why the iPhone 6 is still faster, you need to understand how the so-called "magic apple optimization" works. These guys realized that there was no point in fighting for a stupid increase in the amount of RAM, since in order to radically change the situation, a smartphone must have at least 8 GB of RAM, as in a modern normal PC. It's too expensive. Therefore, they took a different path. Since we need to transfer the data array from the swap to the RAM, isn't it easier to make the flash memory as fast as possible?
And they did just that! Yes, the iPhone 6 only had one gigabyte of RAM, but they also had the fastest array of flash storage.
The speed of the flash drive even of the old iPhone 6 is significantly superior not only to the state employees of their time, but also to modern inexpensive models with 1 GB of RAM. There is even nothing to argue about!
One of the characteristics of the iPhone, which Apple prefers not to reveal either at the presentation or after it, is the amount of RAM. Not that Cupertino considered it useless, just until recently the company's branded smartphones could not boast of something special. At the end of the day, 2GB of RAM is something that you shouldn't talk about at all, even if your operating system is super-rational about device resources. Apple has continued the tradition this year, but in vain.
iPhone 11 Pro - the iPhone with the largest amount of RAM
According to insider Steve Hemmerstoffer, also known as OnLeaks, Apple has significantly increased the amount of RAM in its smartphones this year. So, the iPhone 11 received 4 GB, and the 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max - 6 GB each. This upgrade can really be considered significant, since last year's iPhone XR only had 3 GB of RAM, which, although sufficient for stable operation, was clearly not enough for bragging.
RAM iPhone 11
Partially information OnLeaks was confirmed even before the release of new products. A few days before the presentation, they hit the Web, which showed that the smartphone is equipped with an A13 processor, about 13% more powerful than the A12, and 4 GB of RAM. This news did not cause much excitement, since the iPhone XS and XS Max had exactly the same number, which did not notice a particular increase in performance compared to the iPhone XR.
What is the iPhone 11 battery
- iPhone 11 - 3110 mAh, iPhone XR - 2942 mAh;
- iPhone 11 Pro - 3190 mAh, iPhone XS - 2658 mAh;
- iPhone 11 Pro Max - 3500 mAh, iPhone XS Max - 3174 mAh.
In the case of batteries, the increase was more noticeable. Anyway, in relation to the iPhone 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max, which received an additional 4 and 5 hours of battery life compared to its predecessors. Well, who will now say that the upgrade of new products turned out to be a pass-through?
In fact, it is difficult to say unequivocally why Apple immediately decided to double the RAM. It is unlikely that in a year the situation on the market of applications could change so much that they began to require more than 3 GB of RAM. Therefore, I would bet that Cupertino simply succumbed to the general trend, of course, provided that this information is true. After all, a company like Apple would be ashamed to show such a significant lag behind the flagships on Android, which already have 12 GB of RAM.
Previously, when the RAM was measured in hundreds of megabytes, it was easier to transfer the superiority of competitors. I would even say that by equipping the iPhone with lower RAM levels, Apple even challenged the manufacturers of Android smartphones. Say, see how fast and smooth our new iPhone is, even with half the amount of RAM. But now that Android has become really fast, the same thing is no longer rolling and it starts to really seem that Cupertino is corny lagging behind. To prove that this is not so, it was possible only by following the lead of consumers and giving what they dreamed about, especially since the price of this dream is an extra 3 GB of RAM.
Apple has never chased benchmarks and numbers. When the first Android smartphones with 6GB of RAM first appeared, some iPhones still had 1GB of RAM. And you know, that was enough! And when the iPhones were compared with those very phones with an incredible amount of "RAM", Apple's smartphones beat competitors in terms of speed. But the needs of buyers are such that optimization alone will not win the race - along with a fast OS, you need to install powerful hardware.
The RAM in the iPhone 11 Pro seems to be enough, but I would like more
IPhone 11 problem
The fact that the new iPhones work for an hour, or even several hours longer than their predecessors, is in itself wonderful, it is even better that the new products are so many percent faster, but everyone really wanted to know, and preferably before the release, how many gigabytes RAM installed on board the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and. Now the curtain is already ajar - everywhere the value of RAM is 4 GB. But even a week after the presentation, "experts" said that the iPhone 11 received 4 GB, and 11 Pro and 11 Pro Max - 6 GB of RAM.
Compared to last year's iPhone XR and its 3GB, that would be just gorgeous, but Apple did not double the RAM at once. Why? I do not yet have an answer to this question, but in Cupertino, most likely, there were reasons for that.
By the way, a few days before the presentation, the results of synthetic testing of the iPhone 11 hit the Web, which showed that the smartphone is equipped with an A13 processor, which is about 13% more powerful than the A12, and 4 GB of RAM. Then about 6 GB; it was so hyped in the media that many still think their iPhone 11 Pro Max has 6 gigabytes of RAM. Exhale, guys.
What's new in the iPhone 12
Previously, when the RAM was measured in hundreds of megabytes, it was easier to transfer the superiority of competitors. By equipping iPhones with lower RAM levels, Apple has even challenged Android smartphone makers. But the reality is that Apple will have to install 6GB of RAM in new iPhones.
And no, not at all because last week Barclays analysts allegedly spoke with sources among Apple suppliers, who revealed all the cards to them (and, by the way, told about the fact that it was 2020). I will say right away that Apple's vendors have no idea how much RAM the new iPhones will have. Even in Cupertino, they probably haven't decided on their own. You might just as well make the announcement that the iPhone 12 will have an A14 processor - 50% more efficient and 30% more energy efficient.
Read also - iPhone 11 Pro Max. And that's ok
No, the iPhone needs more RAM because it is getting harder and harder to create high-quality software. More recently, users of iOS 13.2 applications, if they work in one program, switch to another application and then return back. The content in the first application was automatically reset, which indicated a lack of RAM (did this affect you? Share in our Telegram chat). Yes, Apple fixed this with an OS update (although not all of them), but it was not very pleasant for me to minimize the application for a couple of seconds, return to it and find that all the information has been reset. This just shouldn't happen on the iPhone 11 Pro Max.
COD: Mobile on iPhone 11 Pro Max
So I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, and iPhone 12 Pro Max have 6GB of RAM each. Still, competitors are stepping on their heels, and mistakes like those with iOS 13.2 should not be repeated.
