Low Memory Warning. . . with lots of memory left?

I have over 22GB left.

That's not memory.

Memory and disk space are 2 different things.

Hi and welcome to Apple Discussions...

You can monitor "storage space" in the iTunes window.

Connect your iPad to your computer. Launch iTunes. Select your iPad under Devices on the left side of the iTunes window. Select the Summary tab.

You can see "Capacity" at the bottom of the iTunes window. If your iPad is telling you haven't enough space left try the suggestions here.

5 Useful iPad Tips to Free Up More Space on Your Apple iPad









Carolyn 🙂

amandalwalsh wrote:
I keep getting a Low Memory Warning on my iPad and I have to click on OK. However, I have over 22GB left. Is this a known problem? What is the issue? Are my apps (games/videos) staying "open" even after I click the home button and if so how do I "close" them?

The low memory warning refers to RAM memory of which all iPads have 256 MBs. This is not a warning about the amount of flash memory you have left (22GBs in your case). Flash memory is like disk space while applications run in RAM memory.

The warning you are getting means that a running application is near its maximum allowable RAM space. What Apps are you running? Safari?

No. Presently the iPad does not multitask except for at least the iPod app. Thus when you click on the Home button the presently open app completely closes. When iOS4 ins released then it is a different story.

Once you press the home button, the application should close on the iPad, but I found that both Safari and Mail will both finish some tasks in the background when you close them. So while the iPad officially does not allow apps run in the background, some of Apple's apps actually do which might hold up memory.