iPhone X How To Clear RAM on iPhone X

[DDustiNN]

Wow. This thread is a nightmare. Did anybody read before posting their answers?? Everyone is talking about different things, and completely disregarding what the OP actually asked for.

Three pages of this, and still no one gets it. Unbelievable.

I’ve never heard of this in the past, but also never felt like I needed it. So it was interesting to find out about its existence. I’m also curious to see if there’s a way on the iPhone X. Mine is constantly restarting apps when switching, even if I’m only using two apps. For example, yesterday I saved a photo from Facebook, then went to my photos to make sure it was there. Opened it, zoomed around a bit, then went back to Facebook after about 5-10 seconds, and it had completely restarted. And I don’t mean just the news feed resetting, which happens sometimes - I mean the entire app restarted from the launch screen.

This has also happened with Safari, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and others. Like I could be doing something, then switch to Safari to look something up real quick, return to whatever app I was in and it just fully reloads, completely losing my place. The whole “closing apps” thing is not the issue, either. I never “close” any apps unless they need a forced restart. I leave everything, always have, on all my iPhones. Until this started happening in my iPhone X. So one time, I sucked it up and completely cleared the multitasking area. And that’s actually the time when the Facebook thing (mentioned above) happened. Almost immediately after that.

I’m finding that this is happening way too frequently. I’ve never had this issue on previous iPhones.

 

[Treyhunna]

no home button. just reboot to clear the ram

 

[Vanilla35]

As some others have mentioned, there are 4 different things going on here.

1) Holding on a card, and pressing the Red dot, will Close out the app. This may fix a frozen app, but if your phone is being sluggish, it will not solve the problem - unless your phone is specifically lagging IN that app, and you wish to solve that specific issue.

2) Respringing the device (soft boot), which is resetting the springboard. This will simply refresh the phone's UI/framework, including home screen/app screen, lockscreen, control center, etc. It will not "flush" held memory, such as those for reasons of clearing out slow downs throughout the system, or system being "bogged down".

3) Clearing RAM; I never knew of a way to actually clear ram like you can do on android devices, but someone else laid out how to do this currently on iOS. This will fix any bogging down of the system, and most sluggishness that is present in the system aside from new software on old hardware.

4) Rebooting the device (hard boot); this will be equivalent to clearing RAM, as obviously turning off the phone resets everything. However it takes longer and is not necessary in most cases.

One other point I wanted to add, yes while this isn't android or windows; it's still software on hardware, and things will happen, including system bogging down. It's not common for iOS, but as others have pointed out here in this thread, it can happen more frequently with older devices too, if running new software.

 

[C DM]

Wow. This thread is a nightmare. Did anybody read before posting their answers?? Everyone is talking about different things, and completely disregarding what the OP actually asked for.

Three pages of this, and still no one gets it. Unbelievable.

I’ve never heard of this in the past, but also never felt like I needed it. So it was interesting to find out about its existence. I’m also curious to see if there’s a way on the iPhone X. Mine is constantly restarting apps when switching, even if I’m only using two apps. For example, yesterday I saved a photo from Facebook, then went to my photos to make sure it was there. Opened it, zoomed around a bit, then went back to Facebook after about 5-10 seconds, and it had completely restarted. And I don’t mean just the news feed resetting, which happens sometimes - I mean the entire app restarted from the launch screen.

This has also happened with Safari, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and others. Like I could be doing something, then switch to Safari to look something up real quick, return to whatever app I was in and it just fully reloads, completely losing my place. The whole “closing apps” thing is not the issue, either. I never “close” any apps unless they need a forced restart. I leave everything, always have, on all my iPhones. Until this started happening in my iPhone X. So one time, I sucked it up and completely cleared the multitasking area. And that’s actually the time when the Facebook thing (mentioned above) happened. Almost immediately after that.

I’m finding that this is happening way too frequently. I’ve never had this issue on previous iPhones.

Some certainly get it, plenty of others are certainly off on tangents.

 

[Sneek4179]

something I did from time to time was clear RAM on previous iPhones as a way to ensure closed apps were properly closed and RAM freed up. It was done by holding down the power button until the swipe to power off prompt appears, and then pressing the home button.

Anyone know how to do this on the iPX?

You will in a way restart your phone. You will need to quickly press and release the top volume button and then the same with the bottom button. Then hold the side button until the apple logo appears then release

 

[jnotary]

That.... is not a real thing that exists.

Yes it is, try it yourself...
My iPad to iPhone personal hotspot stuffs up and won’t connected. Clear the RAM on both devices and then it works.

Hold down Power, when Slide to off comes up hold the home Button for a few seconds (it does not go home - slide to power off remains for around 5 seconds)then cached apps in RAM is cleared.
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That is correct.
The user does not need to worry about clearing ram.
The iOS automatically handles it.
Its not Android or windows 98

Apple system can leave stuff in RAM and not clear it, it only moves things from memory when another app wants the RAM, iOS will otherwise use up all RAM it has spare for Spotlight search, Hey Siri, iMessage, etc.

Forcing it to clear RAM cache is the fastest way to resolve issues eg. When iPhone remote won’t talk to Apple TV or Personal Hotspot won’t connect...

Rather than re-booting the phone, which is a lot slowe.

 

[Anakan]

something I did from time to time was clear RAM on previous iPhones as a way to ensure closed apps were properly closed and RAM freed up. It was done by holding down the power button until the swipe to power off prompt appears, and then pressing the home button.

Anyone know how to do this on the iPX?

[doublepost=1511946134][/doublepost]Swipe up. Pull right. Force touch. Click the minus. Done.

 

[C DM]

[doublepost=1511946134][/doublepost]Swipe up. Pull right. Force touch. Click the minus. Done.

As the thread already covers pretty well, that isn't what is being talked about.

 

[buckZor]

Press and quickly release the Volume Up button, then do the same for the Volume Down button. Follow up by pressing the Side button, and hold until the display suddenly shuts off — about 10 seconds. Keep holding the Side button and release when the device turns back onto its Apple boot screen.

That is just a force restart that you've described. Not RAM clearing. I always cleared RAM before a sub-IOS release update (for example from 11.1.1 -> 11.1.2). For larger IOS updates I do a full update using iTunes with device pre-restart.

 

[jimfddf]

So... how do you clear the RAM in Iphone X?

 

[nsinnott]

Oftentimes I have issues connecting to my VPN, and on my 7 Plus, flushing the RAM by holding the power button until the slider, then holding home, would work, and allow me to connect. I actually happened across this thread because I am having the same issue on my X.

 

[goodpasterm]

Someone finally figured it out. It worked for me when I just tried it.

Turn on Assistive Touch to add a virtual home button. Scroll all the way down in the General section of Settings and press Shut Down, Press and hold the virtual home button. The screen will flash just like it would on the old phones and as far as I can tell it worked to clear out the RAM.

 

[Orion7_11]

Someone finally figured it out. It worked for me when I just tried it.

Turn on Assistive Touch to add a virtual home button. Scroll all the way down in the General section of Settings and press Shut Down, Press and hold the virtual home button. The screen will flash just like it would on the old phones and as far as I can tell it worked to clear out the RAM.

I am pretty sure this worked since an app that normally would hold my spot was reset after doing this. Just like it would do on my iPhone 7 after a ram reset.

I had tried something similar with no avail earlier but the difference is how he got to the shutdown screen. (From settings...not by holding volume and side button)

You can also add an assistive touch toggle to control center. (scroll down to shortcut from within accessibility-> add assistive touch and then go to customize control center and add accessibility shortcuts.

 

[RanZ]

That.... is not a real thing that exists.

Umm... yes it is
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Empty Ram is wasted Ram. You are not talking Windows here. Clearing Ram does not improve performance.

I don’t clear ram for performance. I have other uses for that clearance

 

[Derived]

Seems to be some nonsense flying around here...

First of all, iOS doesn't magically manufacture RAM. Do you have to close all your apps all the time? No, not even close. Not at all. But, you can't expect any device to just run the same no matter how many are open in the background. That's not how physics and math works. If you have quite an excessive number open, especially certain apps, it can slow down your device a bit. This is just how computers work, it's not really up for debate.

So, as always, the answer is, be sensible. Close apps once in a while that you're not going to use for a long time, otherwise, don't worry about it.

 

[Jdbaker71]

something I did from time to time was clear RAM on previous iPhones as a way to ensure closed apps were properly closed and RAM freed up. It was done by holding down the power button until the swipe to power off prompt appears, and then pressing the home button.

Anyone know how to do this on the iPX?

EXACTLY! I’ve been trying to figure this out for weeks! Any luck with an answer yet??

 

[Givas01]

something I did from time to time was clear RAM on previous iPhones as a way to ensure closed apps were properly closed and RAM freed up. It was done by holding down the power button until the swipe to power off prompt appears, and then pressing the home button.

Anyone know how to do this on the iPX?

Go to settings then go to general turn on assistive touch then go back to general and go down to click on shut down then click on assistive touch circle hold on home button till it goes back to home screen

 

[Jdbaker71]

Go to settings then go to general turn on assistive touch then go back to general and go down to click on shut down then click on assistive touch circle hold on home button till it goes back to home screen

Thanks but Nope. Doesn’t work.

 

[C DM]

Go to settings then go to general turn on assistive touch then go back to general and go down to click on shut down then click on assistive touch circle hold on home button till it goes back to home screen

Is this different than what was already posted at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-clear-ram-on-iphone-x.2083795/page-4#post-25543521 ?

 

[gaanee]

How do you resping (soft boot) the iPhone?

As some others have mentioned, there are 4 different things going on here.

1) Holding on a card, and pressing the Red dot, will Close out the app. This may fix a frozen app, but if your phone is being sluggish, it will not solve the problem - unless your phone is specifically lagging IN that app, and you wish to solve that specific issue.

2) Respringing the device (soft boot), which is resetting the springboard. This will simply refresh the phone's UI/framework, including home screen/app screen, lockscreen, control center, etc. It will not "flush" held memory, such as those for reasons of clearing out slow downs throughout the system, or system being "bogged down".

3) Clearing RAM; I never knew of a way to actually clear ram like you can do on android devices, but someone else laid out how to do this currently on iOS. This will fix any bogging down of the system, and most sluggishness that is present in the system aside from new software on old hardware.

4) Rebooting the device (hard boot); this will be equivalent to clearing RAM, as obviously turning off the phone resets everything. However it takes longer and is not necessary in most cases.

One other point I wanted to add, yes while this isn't android or windows; it's still software on hardware, and things will happen, including system bogging down. It's not common for iOS, but as others have pointed out here in this thread, it can happen more frequently with older devices too, if running new software.

 

[Vanilla35]

How do you resping (soft boot) the iPhone?

I think you can only do that via a jailbreak tweak. It's usually built into a tweak where you press and hold power, and can choose between full reboot or simply a respring.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

How do you resping (soft boot) the iPhone?

Invoke Bold Text under the Accessibility settings.

 

[Vanilla35]

Invoke Bold Text under the Accessibility settings.

Good catch! Usually this type of change does a full reboot, but it looks like they do have to set to soft boot. Just tested it myself.

 

[MileHighDevs]

That.... is not a real thing that exists.

Old iPhone: hold power button until the power down option pops up, then press/hold home button for a couple of seconds until the screen flashes.

iPhone X: no home button, so how do we do it?

Is this a “thing”? I’ve had this discussion 100x with folks telling me it isn’t. Then I’ve shown them a couple or three apps that always get hung up, and this fixes it. (I know, they’re bad apps, would delete them I could, but my kids school uses them, so I’m stuck.) Also, a handful of popular but crap websites (ESPN, looking at you) are notorious for locking up, and this always clears it. So, in theory, it’s not a thing. And yet, it is.
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That is correct.
The user does not need to worry about clearing ram.
The iOS automatically handles it.
Its not Android or windows 98

'Parked' apps use virtually nothing. I don't know why you are even worried about this.

Smart guys all say you don’t need this for battery longevity or parked apps. But it does help when safari locks up. Not sure if it’s the site or the browser’s fault. Doesn’t really matter. Again, best example, ESPN. I can make it lock up almost on command on my kids SE. And don’t want to embarrass the developer but my kids’ school’s bus tracker and payments apps (which probably should never have passed app review) lock up every third time I use them, and this sleep/home combo is the quickest fix.

 

[C DM]

Old iPhone: hold power button until the power down option pops up, then press/hold home button for a couple of seconds until the screen flashes.

iPhone X: no home button, so how do we do it?

Is this a “thing”? I’ve had this discussion 100x with folks telling me it isn’t. Then I’ve shown them a couple or three apps that always get hung up, and this fixes it. (I know, they’re bad apps, would delete them I could, but my kids school uses them, so I’m stuck.) Also, a handful of popular but crap websites (ESPN, looking at you) are notorious for locking up, and this always clears it. So, in theory, it’s not a thing. And yet, it is.
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Smart guys all say you don’t need this for battery longevity or parked apps. But it does help when safari locks up. Not sure if it’s the site or the browser’s fault. Doesn’t really matter. Again, best example, ESPN. I can make it lock up almost on command on my kids SE. And don’t want to embarrass the developer but my kids’ school’s bus tracker and payments apps (which probably should never have passed app review) lock up every third time I use them, and this sleep/home combo is the quickest fix.

Seems like some solutions have already been covered.