Failing that, it can kick additional pages out of zRAM or, if available, push memory to a swap file on your phone’s storage. However, the use of physical swap storage isn’t part of stock Android.

But if you wish to increase the actual Android RAM without any memory card, then it’s not possible. Android smartphones are not modular, and hence physically increasing the RAM is not feasible.

Since Android apps and iOS use roughly the same amount of memory then the 2GB on the iPad Air 2 or the iPad mini 4 (both of which support split view multitasking) is really not enough.

Memory leaks are a very specific kind of high RAM usage. Usually, when a program stops a certain task, it’ll keep some stuff in memory in case you re-launch that task later (which is good!).

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