Clearing the RAM, difference??

[Jayson A]

You guys. You're not supposed to be closing apps. I see way too many people treating the app switcher like "OH MY GOODNESS ALL OF THESE APPS ARE RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND... I MUST CLOSE THEM IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE MY PRECIOUS BATTERY AND MAKE MY PHONE RUN FASTER"

In actuality, you're making the iPhone/iPad work harder because it has to load the app into the RAM again after you close it completely... which will then make the app take longer to launch.

When you leave apps open, you're not letting them run in the background... they're simply in a frozen state until you return to them.

 

[dk001]

It is not the memory management of the system, it is the poor, poor state of some of these applications. Developers can actually screw up the state restoration and response to the system’s memory management. This is why a reset works in these cases, because it forces the app to reload from scratch. This is precisely the point I am making: you do not know what happens inside of the system, you seem to assume that the system itself is at fault and that a reset, a tool which Apple provides for exceptional use cases, is supposed to fix shoddy programming.
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Cannot agree with that. I have apps that require a significant chunk of RAM to run properly. If Apple's RAM management does not clear or make available the amount of RAM needed then I am supposed to ...

There are some poor apps however that is not always the case. I seldom do a hard reset or reset. I do find that if I clean out the task manager it generally frees up enough ram to run the high apps. Starting with the latest generation and the >1 GB of RAM, for now I am seeing a serious reduction on having to clear anything.

You guys. You're not supposed to be closing apps. I see way too many people treating the app switcher like "OH MY GOODNESS ALL OF THESE APPS ARE RUNNING IN THE BACKGROUND... I MUST CLOSE THEM IMMEDIATELY TO SAVE MY PRECIOUS BATTERY AND MAKE MY PHONE RUN FASTER"

In actuality, you're making the iPhone/iPad work harder because it has to load the app into the RAM again after you close it completely... which will then make the app take longer to launch.

When you leave apps open, you're not letting them run in the background... they're simply in a frozen state until you return to them.

This has been an issue for all devices with 1GB of RAM or less. There are times you have to clear it to get your device to run properly of run a specific app. I could care less if the device has to relaunch if I need the RAM at the time to run something else. One of many reasons so many have clamored for more RAM. Now that we have it, we should see a reduction in having to do anything like these resets. I do know it has helped me.