iPhone 15 Pro Max How is the multitasking with 8GB RAM?

[Tsepz]

Congratulations to all those who managed to get their 15 Pro Max this week/weekend.

Given the apparent upgrade of RAM from 6GB (in 12 PM, 13 PM and 14 PM) to 8GB in the 15 Pro Max, I would love to know if you are seeing significantly more apps staying in RAM/not restarting after you have left them in the background for a while when you go back to them?
Especially if you are coming from a 12 PM, 13 PM or 14 PM.

 

[Banglazed]

Not that noticeable to me as yet. Might be more apparent to users who have tons of tabs on Safari.

 

[Supermallet]

I would be very happy if Bitwarden no longer crashes every other time I open it. I’m not sure if that’s a RAM issue or just the sign of a poorly coded app.

 

[Jetcat3]

I opened up 20 Safari tabs on a 15 Pro and that was a breeze to keep them all in memory.

 

[Tsepz]

How is everyone finding it now that some have had it for a while now? Especially on iOS 17.0.3

 

[Cobold]

I would be very happy if Bitwarden no longer crashes every other time I open it. I’m not sure if that’s a RAM issue or just the sign of a poorly coded app.

Bitwarden crashes from time to time when opened even on my wife's iPad Pro M2 1TB with 16GB of RAM.
So poor coding seems more likely than a RAM issue.

 

[BigDO]

It’s iOS. What multitasking?

 

[The Game 161]

apps are certainly staying in memory when they weren't with 6GB of ram

 

[Torty]

Why doesn’t iOS swapping? We have now 1TB of flash storage, times of 8GB and less are long ago. Would eliminate App killing.

 

[MacDevil7334]

I have always found that the amount of RAM in an iPhone is more related to the computational needs of the camera system than anything else. That is why when you fire up the camera, the phone often boots other apps out of memory to free up RAM. Switching back to your last app means waiting for it to reload. So far, I have not seen this happen on my 15 Pro, so it may be that 8GB is finally more RAM than the camera needs. That’s good news in my book!

It is kind of crazy to stop and realize that my phone now has as much RAM as Apple’s entry level laptops.

 

[Patcell]

It is frustrating how iOS handles “multitasking.”

I only got my 15PM on 9/29 after a miserable failure of a pre-order experience. But frankly, I have not noticed much of a difference between the 15PM and my 13PM in terms of apps staying open in the background. I have not objectively tested obviously…

 

[jaytee712]

It’s iOS. What multitasking?

It is not necessarily multitasking, it is more of a " can the phone handle keeping apps in memory without a reload."