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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 “ cough, like me “ 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.
I have to say, it ‘s taken me a long while to admit this, to give in and help the iPhone out with a daily reboot. I think I had a bit of a pride thing (on behalf of the iPhone OS) going on “ and did not want to concede that this was really necessary.
I ‘m on board now though. Lately, “ especially since moving to the iPhone OS 3.0 betas – I ‘ve just 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. I use the excellent Free Memory app to help in this area “ but not enough to forego the daily reboot.
I ‘m hoping by the time 3.0 has its public release, memory management will be better “ in both the OS itself and within apps. I 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
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