RAM iphone 5s ios 8.1.2

I've run Battery Doctor on various devices and the scenario you describe is absolutely normal. If run a second time, your memory usage will have climbed, even without running any additional apps.

Letting iOS manage the device's memory should be adequate enough to run most apps efficiently.

Is there something wrong with the way your phone is actually performing? If not, don't worry about it. I find that Battery Doctor, by providing information without context, frequently cause people far more anxiety than is necessary.

You may find this article helpful:

http://www.howtogeek.com/128130/htg-explains-why-its-good-that-your-computers-ra m-is-full/

KenjiH93 wrote:

Now, with the Iphone 5S, there's only 200mb free when I'm literally doing nothing except using Battery Doctor.

So, you're saying that is perfectly normal for the iphone 5s to have such low available RAM, when there's nothing on the background?

Are you experiencing any problems with your 5S?

As Meg St._Clair says above, don't worry about it. As long as you device is running fine, there should not be a need for these types of memory clearing apps. The few times I have found it useful however was when running a large, memory intensive app on a device with lower system RAM like the iPad mini 1st gen with 512 MB of system RAM. Clearing out the memory using Battery Doctor did seem to resolve frequent crashing. The newer devices have 1 GB of system RAM (iPad Air 2 has 2 GB) and these devices are usually not prone to these types of crashes.

Enjoy your device and don't sweat the little details. 🙂

I ran iOS 8.1.1 on my iPhone 5S. It ran perfectly. I never removed apps from the recents list. Most of what you think of as "open" apps are not doing anything; they are suspended. I never had a problem with Safari. When you say the phone is likely to "collapse", do you mean yours is actually crashing? Or that you are afraid it will based on these memory statistics?

I just think it ***** to have low RAM, coming from another idevice with plenty of available

Did you read the article I linked to?

I have an iPhone 5 currently running iOS 8.1.2

Let me tell you a bit more about these memory cleaning apps...you can't really trust any one of them to any degree of accuracy. I have had quite a few of these apps and they ALL reported different amounts of free RAM available to the system, both before and after the RAM was cleared. There are even many of these apps that do not necessarily clean out any RAM at all, they merely report available system RAM...even these can vary greatly with discrepancies of a 100 MB or more. And depending on what devices you run the apps on, there will be differences as well.

Apple has recently been pulling these memory cleaning apps from the App Store...seems the ones that are single-function (clearing/cleaning memory only) are the ones that are being pulled more aggressively while those that are multi-function (like Battery Doctor) are still allowed.

Good article, thanks for sharing, Meg!

I found it helpful. Glad you did, too. I found it through this article:

http://www.howtogeek.com/204552/no-closing-background-apps-on-your-iphone-or-ipa d-wont-make-it-faster/

KenjiH93 wrote:

Thank you very much you guys!!

Glad we were able to help. Don't overthink things that are working. 😉 When they stop working, that's when you go looking.

Best of luck.

Under Battery Doctor (v2.4) immediately after freeing memory, 33% memory is used, 680 MB are free.

SYS Activity Manager (no, not the same as System Activity Monitor that you mentioned above) , immediately after running Battery Doctor, clearing RAM, then shutting down Battery Doctor shows ~451 MB free

Immediately after running Battery Doctor, clearing RAM, then shutting down Battery Doctor, System Activity Monitor (free) shows my total memory: 1016 MB, Free memory at ~712 MB

Why the differences between the iPhone 5 & iPhone 5S? I really do not know.