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.

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    10 months ago

    New iOS versions are very ram intensive. My XR with 3GB ram had no problem with iOS 15 but could barely handle iOS 16 or 17. The 11 or 12 with 4GB aren’t much better on iOS 17.

    The models with 6GB ram (12 Pro, 13 Pro, all 14 models, 15 non-Pro models) are like a night & day comparison, but I’m sure these won’t be enough for future iOS versions. 15 Pro models are the first ones with 8GB ram. You’ll probably need that by the time iOS 19 rolls around.