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On 2024-09-20 06:32:47 +0000, Bernd Froehlich said:
> On 19. Sep 2024 at 10:06:15 CEST, "John Hill" <watcombeman@yahoo.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
>> My son has has asked me:
>> 
>> My iPad is getting slower and slower to the extent that it’s making some
>> applications difficult to use. I could try shutting down or restarting 
>> but my perception is this is a recurring issue. Is there any known 
>> memory or process monitoring on the iPad to see if I have an app that 
>> is misbehaving?
>> 
>> I know of none, but that doesn't mean there isn't anything. cAnd if 
>> there is I assume it would apply equally to the iPd and iPhone.
>> 
>> Any suggestions? I have suggested a power down and restart, and he will try
>> that for starters.
>> 
>> Old John.
> 
> You could try if closing all running apps helps. (AFAIK a restart won´t do
> that).
> 
> iPad OS SHOULD take care of memory by itself, but I have encountered some
> situations where closing all apps helped.

The problem with devices is that most people don't close (and don't 
know how or that they should) apps they aren't currently using, so they 
can end up with lots of stuff still running. It doesn't matter whether 
it's MacOS, Windows, iPadOS / iOS, Android, etc.

The same happens with things like web browser tabs. People just leave 
them open whenever the browser opens a new one.

All these open things chew through RAM, and when that runs out the OS 
can often swap them out to storage drive space, clogging that up as 
well.

There should really be a system preference option set by default for 
novice users that properly closes apps / tabs that haven't been used in 
a while and arent doing anything (such as playing background music). 
That alone could solve a lot of "it's slow" problems.