It’s happened to all of us. Fire up a fancy new game you’ve bought on your iPhone and it crashes as soon as you see the splash screen. An iPhone restart usually fixes it, but that isn’t exactly a quick solution, and certainly not an optimal one. So why does a restart fix it ?
Imagine your iPhone as the small computer it really is.
Each iPhone comes with 128MB of memory for running applications in. That’s all well and good, but the memory an application uses isn’t always freed back up after you close it. If, like me, you have all kinds of apps that you use day in, day out this can mean you’re dangerously low on resources the next time you try to run something. If only there was a way to reclaim this memory….
This is where Free Memory comes in.
Free Memory allows you to reclaim all the memory that’s being eaten up by apps you aren’t currently using, hopefully meaning less crashes and making your iPhone more speedy in general.
When an application is launched on an iPhone, it expects to have at least 20MB of free memory to play with. In my testing, at least on my iPhone, this is rarely the case. A quick stab at the ‘Free Memory’ button instantly gives me the RAM needed. So far it’s worked well, and even my Contacts and SMS apps load quicker after running Free Memory. Magic !
Along with the freeing up memory, this application also lists all the running processes (I’m surprised Apple lets them do that !) and also includes a numeric battery indicator.
Unfortunately Free Memory isn’t free (see what I did there?) but for just 59p or 99c it’s not going to break the bank and comes highly recommended.
Give Free Memory a go today, and let me know how you get on !
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