Hacker News Reader

I've noticed that iOS 18+ seems to issue low-memory warnings more frequently than older iOS versions (at least on devices with <=4GB RAM). It can now happen with the app is using less than half the device's RAM, which I don't recall seeing before. I assume this is because the OS is using more RAM for AI and such.

View on HN

Yes, that matches my observations. I develop photography software and in early versions of iOS 18, sometimes saving a large image to the camera roll would fail because the daemon in charge of carrying out the photo library transactions would get killed due to low memory. This only happened on devices that ran Apple intelligence. Fortunately they seemed to have fixed that bug around 18.1 or 18.2 if I recall.

I think you're right, it hasn't been as bad as it was right after 18.0, but it still seems a bit more aggressive than I remember from 17 and earlier.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com