Tip – Rebooting the iPhone sometimes can avoid lots of headaches
The iPhone is a powerful device, running a very powerful mobile operating system.
There are over 35,000 apps for the iPhone by now – and many of them offer stunning graphics, effects, and sheer power on a smartphone device.
So it’s hard for some people to admit that the powerful, wonderful iPhone sometimes needs a little help getting through the day. One way to do this – and to help your iPhone get a fresh start on free memory (of the RAM variety, the kind programs use to run, not storage memory) – is to get in the habit of restarting the iPhone once per day. Some people use pride as an excuse not to do this, and it can cost you performance and stability at times.
Lately, especially since moving to the iPhone OS 3.0 betas – we’ve seen that performance suffers noticeably when I let the phone go a few days without a restart. There are more brief freeze-ups within apps, more crashes, and a little more latency in certain apps.
We’re hoping by the time 3.0 has its public release, memory management will be better – in both the OS itself and within apps. We also cannot wait to see Force Quit come back in one of these betas – although I’m still holding out a faint hope that its absence might mean Apple are cooking up something better for memory/processes management. You never know.
Details of the new iPhone 4.
First iPad jailbreak has officially been released.
Could we see a Verizon iPhone 4G this summer?
The latest iPhone 4.0 beta 2 firmware is available for developers to download.
That iPhone you see on Gizmodo is a fake.
iPhone 4.0 release date is in June 2010.
The iPhone 4.0 beta 1 firmware can be "jailbroken".
Could this be the Verizon iPhone 4G?
Make that 41,515 apps.
I’m sorry, but this article is lame and obviously someone doesn’t know much about thier iPhone. First of all, the 2 things that kill your memory most are safari and the iPod, both of which can simply be force quit to completely close them. Second, there are at least 5 great memory freeing apps that free your memory without having to restart.
The reason why this article is bogus is becuase you can restart ur phone all you want but as soon as you re-open safari and/or the ipod, your memory is back to where you started. Currently I run the System Activity Monitor app which closes safari and iPod and usually free’s over 40mb of ram, with just the push of a button and NOT by restarting and waiting for the phone to boot just to load it’s memory up with safari and iPod again.
So basically you’d have to either force quit iPod and safari each time you use them to ensure free memory, or get a good memory freeing app because restarting is pointless when the memory apps clear just as much memory and can be re-used many times through out the day…unless you don’t mind restarting the phone many times a day.
Clear your cache, history, and cookies. Clear your SMS and call history, and don’t fill your iPhone up to maximum capacity, leave atleast a gig of free space.
You should revise this article and explain to people that they need memory freeing apps and explain that freeing memory by restarting is pointless as soon as you re-open safari/iPod and don’t force quit them.
For the record, I always force quit safari and iPod, clear my safari history, cache, cookies, SMS, and call history at least once a day. I also use my memory freeing app before I play games to ensure lots of free RAM
okay. that is good information. but how do i clear safari history, cache, cookies on iphone?
and how do you force quite safari and ipod on iphone?
also, what are the “” Second, there are at least 5 great memory freeing apps that free your memory without having to restart.”"???
Hey Peggy mue,
Here are those apps: MemoryInfo Memory Status, System Activity Monitor, and Free Memory. All of them are .99 cents except system activity monitor which is 2.99.
To clear your safari cache, history, and cookies just go to settings, then safari, then you’ll see them, just select each one and clear.
To force quit an app just hold the home button for 5 or more seconds. And just incase your iPhone ever freezes, hold the power and home button together until the phone resets itself.
Hey. it doesnt hurt to restart once a day…or every other to reload the OS. it does help a tiny bit. another thing is to keep ur iPhone as cool as possible…coz i know wen mine heats up it tends to crash and restart on its own…if it doesnt restart it just slows down. if its realli an issue then yes, u can download FreeMemory, etc. i have that app as well. it works well but force quitting is also a good idea if ur not planning on opening it up again for a while. i have had an iPhone for over a year and it never leaves my side…everytime i have an issue i look it up and resolve it. i hope that this new iPhone thats coming out has more memory…rather then forcing us to work with 20-40 MB of free memory wen iPod, Safari, and Mail use upto 12 MB. and if u open them all and close them and they are still running in the background…that leaves u with little to no memory which just slows down the device. as far as i know the iPhone has 128 MB of ram.
Kenny,
Yes, exactly! Hopefully if a new iPhone is released this summer, it better have an upgraded processor and more ram! Because we’ve obviously hit a wall if people have to learn how to make basic apps run well by keeping an eye on disk space and ram.
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