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It was an issue with earlier iPhones with the frequency it killed background apps/tabs.

The main incentive causing Apple to finally increase RAM is AI, with everything else being a good side effect.

Your apps constantly refresh despite only tabbing out to other apps for seconds. Super duper annoying and frustrating.

Mine don't.

This is demonstrably false to anyone with one of these devices. I can page over to my podcast app that I used days ago and find it is exactly where I left it.

Not sure why the downvotes, it's largely true. Almost every non-techie I encounter in real life incorrectly uses the term "memory" to mean storage space.

Is it really that incorrect? Flash memory is persistent storage. Memory cards used to be how game saves were stored on consoles. The M in ROM stands for memory.

So it seems like we're using the term memory too narrowly, rather than them using it incorrectly.