I’ve got a 12. I bought it when it was last year’s model so it’s a couple of years old now.
I was just wondering does anyone actually multitask on these phones? These being the older ones with only 4 gigs of ram like the base 12 and 13.
I don’t really multitask, I use one app at a time usually - but every so often when I have to switch between, even only 2 apps, half of the time the app in the background will have been lost and reloaded. I’d then have redo all the steps i had done to get to that section of the app e.g re-search and re-apply the individual filters on Ebay. It’s kinda infuriating.
Is multitasking reserved only for the pro level iPhones, or something? I know iPhones are supposed to be more ram efficient but I’ve used androids with twice the ram before and I would not say they are equivalent. It doesn’t seem to be a problem on the higher level androids, you can hold whatever in the memory.
The ram efficiencies don’t seem to make up for the actual lack of ram.
The problem is caused by badly written apps. iOS (and iPadOS) has a very different memory management than Windows or macOS. There is no memory swapping to the "hard disk" and therefore if an app in the foreground needs memory every app in the background could be ended by the system at any time. That's why app developers should always implement saving everything automatically while the app is in the foreground or at least when it goes to the background. Switching to an automatically closed background app means reloading the saved state. This should be exactly the same state as the app was when it went to the background.
There are obviously bad apps that do not follow this requirement. These apps are your problem.