Comments on: iStat removes its best feature with v1.1 update

By: sudopeople

sudopeople — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:34:31 +0000

Just jailbreak and get "Free Memory" for free in SBSettings.
Problem solved:
http://sudopeople.com/random/images/1251399720_IM…

MikeCTZA and others above agree 😉

By: Pure Genius: Genius for Apps Recommends An App That Frees Memory, Which Is Supposedly Not Allowed | Just Another iPhone Blog

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:54:13 +0000

[…] many of you know, two popular apps used to free memory on the iPhone – iStat and Free Memory – have recently been forced to remove the memory freeing features from their […]

By: patrickj

patrickj — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:22:14 +0000

In reply to 1pitch1spot. Apple made it clear right from the beginning that apps would not be allowed system level access, would not be allowed to operate outside of their own 'sandbox' in effect. The better question for me, as I've mentioned in the post, is how these apps were ever allowed to offer the ability to free memory.

By: 1pitch1spot

1pitch1spot — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:55:54 +0000

So my question, being new to Apple consipiracy theories, is WHY would Apple do this? What harm does it potentially cause? I understand why we don't get tethering (i.e. takes revenue away from AT&T) … etc. … but why this? What problems does Apple see that we (just I?) don't see?

By: Lesley

Lesley — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:50:55 +0000

I knew it was Apple's decision as soon as I realized the functionality was gone. I'm just grateful I updated it on my iPhone, not through iTunes. As soon as I checked the new features and saw you couldn't free memory anymore, I immediately deleted it from my iPhone and reinstalled v1.0 via iTunes sync. I won't be updating it (again) either.

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:50:27 +0000

In reply to SkydiverTilt. It 'went away' for a little bit for me as well, but it's back showing up now - just App Store flakiness I imagine.

By: SkydiverTilt

SkydiverTilt — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:06:06 +0000

Did they pull the update? It no longer shows up on my app store updates and I haven't updated!!!

By: christyxcore

christyxcore — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 21:01:18 +0000

I updated and saw that, was angry and began to vent on twitter. then i realized I still didn't empty out the trash, so I deleted the app on the phone and iTunes, and restored v1.0.

Lucky I didn't empty trash yet. But now I can't ever do 'Update All' again. *sigh*

thanks, apple.

By: Critter

Critter — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:16:24 +0000

that sucks.. the only good thing I have going is.. that I have the free memory program on the iphone too… as I will absentmindedly click "update all" at some point and totally shag it up.. if free memory was removed from the app store.. at least that will not update…

By: joshgard

joshgard — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:43:07 +0000

I installed the update last night and spent 20 minutes trying to find the free mem button before going to their support site just to find out it's gone. And I'd already emptied the trash on my Mac, so the old install file is gone. 🙁 I have no need for this app w/o that feature. Very disappointing.

By: Shobizz3000

Shobizz3000 — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:59:39 +0000

In reply to teejayhanton.

That is true, but I've found SBsettings to nit be as effective as istat. At least when u push the free memory button. I was down to 57mb free ram and used the SBsettings free memory button. It got me to 104mb free. I immediately launched istat. It measured me at 87mb free. It's use took me to a whopping 153mb free. HUGE difference in performance if u ask me. I'm sure if u killed all processes except "phone" manually in SBsettings you could probably get better results. But needless to say….I won't be upgrading!
See, this is why it took me literally years to give in and buy an iPod(was my first apple product purchase). I hated how they ultimately had control over how you could use your device. Only through iTunes, let's limit the formats, blah blah. It just always felt as if there aren't many end-user rights with the level of control that the try to exude upon us!! Thank God for jailbreaking!!
Someone smack the ish out of Apple for me!! Thanks!

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:37:24 +0000

In reply to teejayhanton.

Yeah – it really is another reason to JB. Freeing up memory – especially as quickly and painlessly as iStat and Free Memory do it – is a big timesaver over having to reboot. I've got SBSettings, but I'l be trying to hold onto the 'old school' versions of Free Memory and iStat as long as possible.

By: William

William — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:33:48 +0000

Updated. Saw the change. Deleted app.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:48:22 +0000

Yea, I have a bit of OCD in me too. I am going to hold off on all urges to update though!

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:35:17 +0000

Ditto. I won't update unless I have to.

By: MikeCTZA

MikeCTZA — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:03:03 +0000

Thankfully I still have SBSettings Processes toggle on my Jailbroken device so I updated. Is sad to see this feature disappearing from iStat though.

By: Armand Kerry Davila

Armand Kerry Davila — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:49:15 +0000

Dig-dangit, Apple! Sheesh! Where is Uncle Phil in all this? Can't he tar and feather the butthole who made this decision??? Ughhhh!!!!!

By: teejayhanton

teejayhanton — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:48:57 +0000

Yet another reason to Jailbreak. If you install SBSettings, you can view what processes are running and free up memory that way.

By: AndyM

AndyM — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:34:37 +0000

I noticed this last night too — and what a disappointment. Like you, I bought it primarily for the free memory feature. I'll probably end up upgrading since as my OCD will get the best of me as I can't deal with having a badge attached to my app store icon. :p At least there are some new cool features added instead of just taking the free memory function away.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:20:43 +0000

I won't be updating, either. And now I've lost the ability to "update all".