You can read spec, but you can’t upgrade RAM on iPhone. Either buy the phone or not.
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I upgrade every 6-7 years, I buy the latest phone when I upgrade. Never had to look at specs. May be if o was buying older models.
Apps don't "run nonstop" and there's rarely a benefit to force closing them.
You could upgrade at the wrong time. Imagine waring 6 years, upgrading and then the very next year Apple upgrade the RAM on their iPhone and give it a new low energy display....
Then how are they still there? They're still using resources to remain in suspended mode, which means they're still running. Some cycles and RAM are freed up but some are still in use to maintain the app's save state. And if they're still running, even minimally, then battery usage is also still elevated.
I think that, with 8GB of RAM on the iPhone and 12GB of RAM on the iPad (Pro, M3) we will have a sweet spot for many years. I honestly don’t see the need of more than 8GB of RAM on the iPhone, or 12 GB of RAM on the iPad.
Well, even better! Honestly I don’t think I need that much RAM on an iPad nowadays, but I wouldn’t complain if the next iPad Pro comes with 12GB of RAM on the smaller storage options, and 24GB on the 1TB and 2TB models.
I could do so many things at wrong time in life. I have never had RAM problem with iPhone, not gonna sweat. If it is slow, I would return the phone.
Because these are the models that are regularly available for sale in stores and the only models that get price cuts… and they’re very well performing machines crippled by memory from ages past… 8gb ram wont run most apps worth using a computer for…at least not without straining the meager hard drive…. Remember when 1TB HDD were the standard years ago…. 1TB SDD should be standard now… theyre not even expensive on their own and ya can buy better standalone ones than what they put in the base macs…
Older Macs still work just fine with 8GB - or even 4GB of RAM - without having to restart applications - they never had to do that, even running photoshop, illustrator, quicktime, iWork, etc.. at the same time.
I'd guess, those app restarting issues have more to do with energy conservation and iOS' system design - not having everything in the RAM all the time so it can save power. More RAM will probably even be counterproductive in this regard.
I'd guess, those app restarting issues have more to do with energy conservation and iOS' system design - not having everything in the RAM all the time so it can save power. More RAM will probably even be counterproductive in this regard.
Which is probably also a software-related problem. My iPad Air 3 edits 33mp RAWs in lightroom just fine with it's 3GB of RAM.
Although, nobody ever thinks of buying from Apple when they think: Maximum cheap. Especially at their maximally inflated RAM pricing.
Those grannys won't even know, what RAM is - if they go by price, they may buy a machine that will be obsolete before it's time. Thank god it's old grannies and long lasting apple products we're talking about, so that might be a problem that solves itself before that time comes.
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On an Iphone. I never gave this any thought. IOS seems pretty well optimized with the current RAM size. I guess as the OS needs increase so will the RAM size. The current marketing info on the iphone 14 doesn't even seem to call it out on the Apple Store site.
I care about RAM for my desktop and laptop but I don’t care how much RAM my iPhone has. It works for what I need it to do.
iOS only allows backgrounding for certain kinds of tasks, like navigation, VoIP, task completion (like uploading a picture to social media) and audio playback.
Otherwise the apps are suspended in the RAM and prioritized by RAM, then swap, as needed. What you mostly see in the app switcher are basically screenshots of the app from when you last had it on your screen.
Killing an app actually kills the Unix process and most likely it uses more energy to restart the app than it does to resume it from a suspended state. You’re literally not accomplishing anything the OS isn’t already managing better than you.
I'd venture to guess that most of the people that care about RAM in their phone don't actually know how much their applications require. Not saying RAM doesn't matter, but if the phone is responsive (and doesn't crash of course), what difference does the numerical value make? It's a phone. I don't care about the clock rate of the CPU either.
Apple never wants to tell people how many GB the RAM is in a iPhone as they feel a little shame😂
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Enough for how long? 2GB used to be enough. Unless they stop adding new features, we'll always eventually need more RAM. The idea that there's a final number that we'll never need to exceed goes against the way computers have evolved since their invention.
The more RAM, the better. Of course, Tim Crook would never support that because he wants new Apple products to become obsolete sooner so he can sell newer ones and make more money.
You sound like someone with more money than sense. Why would any sane person spend $400+ to upgrade insultingly low base level parts that we all know cost basically nothing for Apple to acquire? That's just throwing away money. But hey, I guess you don't mind since you apparently don't actually care about value.
This is true. They didn’t start listing RAM on the iPad either, but the 2021 and 2022 iPad Pros finally got a minimum of 8GB RAM, so they were proud to share that on their website.
If they include 8GB RAM in the iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max, I could see Apple sharing that info on their website.