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.
As others have said this is an optimization issue and not a device/OS issue. 4 gig of ram should be plenty for modern apps.
The problem is shitty app developers that write apps with no optimizations. If the iPhone had 12gb of RAM those apps would still use all of it, it would just take slightly longer to happen.
It’s about balance. Big companies like eBay, Snapchat, Vinted, Tinder, etc etc all want to just write one app for all platforms and that leads to tradeoffs on both platforms. On Android those devices have more RAM because they NEED more RAM as the number of badly optimized apps is a bigger % relative to iOS.
Here’s an analogy: The case you put your phone into. If you buy the same brand for both but the Android phones case feels nice in the hand but the iPhones one feels awful and gritty and sticky and doesn’t fit correctly. That’s not the iPhones fault, it’s the manufacturer of the cases fault.