You can clear RAM on iPhone not only to increase performance but to also speed up your iPhone in general. Processes carried out on your iPhone are stored and kept active by the RAM. The amount of RAM you have will determine how many apps you can run at once without it automatically shutting down some apps. With each app that gets opened and left to keep running in the background take a part of the RAM to keep it running.
Now, When the RAM have too much on its plate (like 4-6 apps opened at once), it tends to affect the overall performance of your iPhone till those apps are cleared from the RAM. Clearing the RAM of your iPhone will significantly increase the speed and boost performance. However, it will also shut down all running apps to make that possible so make sure you don’t the have any important apps running before following the steps below.
How To Clear RAM On iPhone
There are different methods to clear RAM on different iPhones. For iPhone 7 and older like the iPhone 6, 6 Plus, 6s, etc the process is different. For iPhone 8 and newer like iPhone X, Xs, Xs Max and Xr the process is also different. We will be explaining how to go about the two here.
For iPhone 7 and Older iPhone devices
- Press and Hold the Sleep/Wake Button.
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When the slider turns off, your screen appears, let go of the Sleep/wake button.
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Now press and hold your home button.
If done right, your screen will go blank, and you’ll be taken to the home screen. After this, you’ll notice a significant improvement in the speed and performance of your iPhone. Some users have reported that Siri comes up when they try it if it happens to your then you might want to turn off Siri and turn it back on when you’re done clearing the RAM of your iPhone.
For iPhone 8 and Newer iPhone Devices
- Before you cam clear RAM on iPhone 8 or newer, you’ll first have to turn on the assistive touch to mimic the home button since it doesn’t have a physical home button.
To do that, go to Settings >> General >> Accessibility >> Assistive touch and Toggle it on.
Immediately you toggle it on, a gray button will appear on the screen of your iPhone.
Now go back to the Settings Menu and Scroll down and Tap the Shut Down option below Reset.
The Slider will appear on-screen asking you to slide to power Off with a cancel button at the bottom.
Now tap the Assistive Touch Gray Button which brings out a list of options. Press and Hold the Home option/button till the screen goes blank and returns to the home screen.
If that happens, then you’ve successfully cleared the RAM on your iPhone device.
