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iOS and RAM
Hello
I'm running an iOS10 iPhone 6. I can't see anywhere to determine how much RAM the phone has.
I know the device has 128GB memory, but believed this referred to storage?
So, to compare with a physical laptop, my hard drive was 128GB but how do I work out the RAM?
How does Apple do this?
I'm running an iOS10 iPhone 6. I can't see anywhere to determine how much RAM the phone has.
I know the device has 128GB memory, but believed this referred to storage?
So, to compare with a physical laptop, my hard drive was 128GB but how do I work out the RAM?
How does Apple do this?
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I am not sure why you want to compare the configuration of your phone with a laptop, they are completely different devices and work in different ways
To find out how much storage you have Go Settings>General>About My 64GB 6S says i have 59.1GB of Capacity. (its really 59.1 GibiBytes which is roughly equivalent to 64 GigaBytes ie the difference between 1000x1000 and 1024x1024)
i also have the Status app from sysstat.techet.net and that tells me i have 2005.5MB of Memory, of which only about 40MB are classified as Free
But what use is knowing that information, does it help me do anything different on my phone? The answer is NO!
To find out how much storage you have Go Settings>General>About My 64GB 6S says i have 59.1GB of Capacity. (its really 59.1 GibiBytes which is roughly equivalent to 64 GigaBytes ie the difference between 1000x1000 and 1024x1024)
i also have the Status app from sysstat.techet.net and that tells me i have 2005.5MB of Memory, of which only about 40MB are classified as Free
But what use is knowing that information, does it help me do anything different on my phone? The answer is NO!
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Are you having an issue? This has not come up for me before (myself or clients). Apple devices work fine if there is enough overall storage. This is similar to your earlier question and I did point to a memory manager link. It does not seem to be of any value from my point of view.
What issue are you facing?
We develop an application on iOS that runs in the background too. Often, we see this app has been terminated by iOS for memory optimisation reasons. When this happens, I want to see;
i. How much memory is really spare
ii. What else is using the memory
What issue are you facing?
We develop an application on iOS that runs in the background too. Often, we see this app has been terminated by iOS for memory optimisation reasons. When this happens, I want to see;
i. How much memory is really spare
ii. What else is using the memory
Your situation is not common and there is no need for the vast majority of people to worry about memory, so there are not many tools. I did post a tool for you (in your other question) did you try it?
Thanks, good luck and I was happy to help with this.
First, I don't personally have any experience with doing this sort of memory analysis myself, but I was curious about your problem so I did a little digging. I was pretty sure Apple provided some sort of developer tools for being able to help with the sort of problem you're running into, and sure enough, I found out about their "Instruments" tool set within Xcode.
Check out this documentation to see if it'll get you on the path:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH3-SW1
And here's a document specific to Monitoring Memory Usage:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/MonitoringMemoryUsage.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH33-SW1
Check out this documentation to see if it'll get you on the path:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH3-SW1
And here's a document specific to Monitoring Memory Usage:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/InstrumentsUserGuide/MonitoringMemoryUsage.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40004652-CH33-SW1
What issue are you facing?