Why Restarting Your Phone Makes it Perform Better and Fixes Common Issues

[learninmypc]

We’ve all heard it: “have you tried turning it off and back on again?” It’s the first step when troubleshooting any tech problem—it even makes your phone perform better when nothing is wrong. But why?



It’s All About the RAM
When it comes to solving performance issues (or just making your phone feel faster), it really boils down to one thing: RAM usage. With most modern operating systems, as you use apps, they fill up the RAM. The more apps you open, the more they use up RAM. It’s just how it works. FULL ARTICLE

 

[DelJo63]

a restart may be the solution. Why? Because even when you swipe an app away, parts of it are still left in RAM.

Hmm; I'm jaundice on that comment. First physical RAM is of no concern as our Apps use virtual memory and today do not have access to the physical. Secondly, there should only be two cases where this *might* be possible:

1. memory leakage
2. shared code being held resident

The first is a programmer's error and yes, this happens far too frequently.

The second is an OS feature to avoid unloading and reloading the same code too frequently; but that should stop when memory is under heavy pressure- - aka too many programs running at the same time.

When good programs are closed, NOTHING is left in ram; notice the caveat - - good programs :sigh:

All that said, there's nothing wrong with Pragmatic choices.