iPad Pro Free Up RAM in iPad ? Follow These Steps !!

[Hym tix]

Nice bro. I’ve posted my actual, personal experiences intended to help those who might need it. @ericwn you have not even done that... so who is blowing hot air?

At any rate, I don’t have the time but maybe someone else can download one of those system status apps and see what it reports for RAM used/ RAM available before and after doing the reset described in the OP. That would make a clearer case.

 

[ericwn]

Nice bro. I’ve posted my actual, personal experiences intended to help those who might need it. @ericwn you have not even done that... so who is blowing hot air?

At any rate, I don’t have the time but maybe someone else can download one of those system status apps and see what it reports for RAM used/ RAM available before and after doing the reset described in the OP. That would make a clearer case.

And what exactly would you like me to back up, what claim of mine would you like clarification on? Probably none, since I have not come up with the theory that clearing ram actually has a measurable effect in iOS. Nice bro.

But we’ll see if anybody else here has some insights on YOUR claim and can complete the conversation on your behalf.


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[Digitalguy]

I should have specified in my post that there are some relative rare exceptions to that. And they were mentioned. As I said about RAM is always mostly in use in IOS contrary to Windows, and when you have a high ram request, like opening a very large file, IOS will have to eject most of what is compressed in RAM and this can either create a temporary slowdown or even a crash. Again the slowdown is temporary and one-off, unlike paging in Windows. I want to stress this since people tend to think of performance in terms of a PCs. No, emptying RAM will slow things down in normal use as it will force reloading. However, in case of high RAM requests, a crash can also happen especially with lower RAM devices. As for situations needing 6GB of RAM, it’s a different thing. It’s rare but possible and those extra GIGs are indeed used and not for storage, there have been tests with 6GB RAM ipads. As I have said elsewhere, the fact that IOS manages RAM well and little RAM does not slow down the system but only causes refreshes most of the time should not hide the fact that ipads don’t have enough RAM as a do-it-all device, as 4GB is not enough for that, especially for pro use cases, and this should hopefully improve with futures ipad pros.