iPhone 6 with 1 gig of ram, that's disappointing.

Tell it to Apple:

Apple - Feedback

And calling it "not normal" and "stupid" is counterproductive. If you want to pose a recommendation to Apple on the Feedback site, I would avoid using those terms. They tend to make people not take whatever point you might be making seriously...

GB

I suppose it's a hardware development bug. Safari and Navigation software with dozens of POI on the map is always a headache for 1GB of RAM.

Just made a post here about it, but it was deleted with the following reason stated: We removed your post iPhone 6/6 Plus lost 1Gb or RAM. because it contained information about beta software available only to Registered Apple Developers

By the way: this brings some understanding regarding this issue.

Why did you purchase a phone that you knew had what you consider to be a disappointing amount of RAM? It's not like it was a secret. Take it back and get a Samsung if you are so unhappy....

GB

Not on this forum - the e-mails were probably from the forum monitors who do sometimes respond to questions posted, but no representatives or employees of Apple are here or respond to or see posts.

If you want to contact Apple, then you need to do so directly.

but no representatives or employees of Apple are here or respond to or see posts.

I don't know how you can possibly know what all Apple employees are reading.

As I recall, there was a problem between the interaction of iMovie and iDVD that was being discussed on these forums. I received an e-mail from an Apple employee asking for additional information about the problem. I was not expecting or asking for any type of reply from Apple.

I agree, that if someone wants to communicate directly with Apple they should use the feedback form or send a letter to their street address.

It has nothing to do with RAM. It is a software bug or software design, not sure which. The iPad Air 2 has 2 GB of Ram and does the same thing as did the iPad Air with iOS7. There is another thread with 65, yes 65 pages of people complaining about this bug with iOS 7 and now 8.1.

The memory leak is pretty bad and Apple has not fixed it yet and I went to the Apple Store and demonstrated on every iPad Air 2 they had on display with the Apple Techs. They know of the issue.

Yes, I know 🙂

I want to have more real feedback regarding RAM issue.

Have to make a decision: wait till 6S or 7 release or give it a try with 6.

I have very negative experience with iPad 1 and RAM. It's still operational and runs iOS 5.1.1, but main problem is RAM in Safari, Navigation, just everywhere.

Believe me I understand. Even more deeply then you can expect. It was one of the reasons I made a link to a single reasonable article I found in internet regarding this issue. All other articles I found were BS mostly.

O1eg wrote:

Wrong in what point?

The article literally says:

OS does not use this style of garbage collection and does not slow down in constrained memory environments.

So 1GB for iOS results in more performance than 3GB for Android.

That means that because of the way iOS is designed, it operates better with 1GB of RAM than Android does with 3GB of RAM.

Yes it is. Can you imagine I've read it before post.

Looks like it's ok with iPhone 6 and iOS 8. I personally care about life cycle of a product. I do not want to purchase a phone for 1 year. My 4S last for 3 years and still it's more or less ok. With iOS 7.1.1 not iOS8 of course.

But how iPhone 6 will run iOS 9 or 10?

Would it be the same as with iPad 1 and 5.1.1 - exactly low RAM issue with Safari and most of the apps?

Freezes is not N1 problem there, but 256M RAM.

Chris I am sorry all these people got to you first, their ignorance gives all of us a bad name. Unlike the others, I'm not going to blindly praise something just because it has an apple logo on it. 1gb of ram in 2014 is pathetic, but we all know how apple's marketing scheme works and in the end they are in it for the money - so we gotta play along to our best advantage. I read the entire thread here and the article linked, there hasn't been a single point that isn't just corporate rhetoric to make people not regret their purchase. Apple is all about short product life and frequent upgrades, if they released the 6 with 2gb ram, then it would be able to handle the later updates and people would be less willing to get the 7,8,9, etc.

Z

Masters degree and 15+ years as a computer engineer/department director

zentg wrote:

Chris I am sorry all these people got to you first, their ignorance gives all of us a bad name. Unlike the others, I'm not going to blindly praise something just because it has an apple logo on it. 1gb of ram in 2014 is pathetic, but we all know how apple's marketing scheme works and in the end they are in it for the money - so we gotta play along to our best advantage. I read the entire thread here and the article linked, there hasn't been a single point against this thread that isn't just corporate rhetoric to make people not regret their purchase.

Z

Masters degree and 15+ years as a computer engineer/department director

That's adorable!

Two Master's degrees; Engineering and Information Technology; 20 years field experience with military grade systems, plus a few years of civilian experience now, focusing primarily supervising other tech that service & maintain mobile devices for a large corporation.

Now, were you just bumping an old thread to boast? Because there are a lot of other people in this forum that could jump in as well. Or was it that you just had an anti-Apple bias? Also, with all that experience, you'd think you'd be able to properly read and reply to the right person in a forum thread. Who is 'Chris'? You responded to 'O1eg'.

I'm exactly about it. Short product life. In many cases for most of the users Original iPhone is enough. If you want just to make phone calls, text, and listen to the music. And I have few friends who tried to find spare battery for original iPhone this year. Because it's functionality was more then enough for them. I also was satisfied with my first iPad (1gen) and first iPhone (it was 4s) and I didn't want to migrate to new models. But offline navigation systems like Tom tom or iGo do not support original iPad any more and I need new iPhone due to it's required for my job... only... Otherwise I could easily continue with 4S until it fail.

You're still not getting it. The very same article you tried to use to justify your position that the iPhone has too little RAM specifically states that because of the way that iOS is designed, it doesn't need more RAM. It's a more efficient system, not running as much 'trash' as some other operating systems.

Read the article again.