It seems like Apple, who have stubbornly stuck to 1 GB of RAM for its iPhones and iPads until now, has finally yielded to the market that be and given users a bump in the memory department. iOS developer Developer Hamza Sood, using asset catalogs along with Xcode 7GM, has confirmed that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus have 2GB of RAM, up from the 1GB of RAM in the outgoing iPhone 6 range, and the iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM, up from 2GB of RAM found in the iPad Air 2.
Earlier, an Adobe release had jumped the guns and pointed out at a 4GB RAM on the iPad Pro in a press release. Since the iPad Pro has been devised to take care of multitasking and using high end graphic intensive applications, it sure made sense for Apple to go for the doubled up (as compared to iPad Air 2) 4GB RAM and the fact that the iPad can now even edit multiple 4K videos in the latest version of iMovie will make sure the device harnesses the new RAM.
Not much of a surprise but Xcode confirms 2GB of RAM for the 6s (and 6s plus), and 4GB for the iPad Pro pic.twitter.com/X8Ym4DtamS
— Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) September 13, 2015
Asset Catalogs are used to simplify management of images that are used by your app as part of its interface, it can include App icons, image sets, launch images and other elements needed to build an app. Sood has leveraged the fact that asset loading with respect to memory capacity of devices can be seen, thus deciphering the undisclosed RAM capacities.
More RAM means that there can be more OS and application data in memory. This is essential for fast multi-tasking performance.
The image asset is chosen based on the memoryClass key in the simdevicetype’s capabilities.plist. 0 = <1GB, 1 = 1GB, 2 = 2GB, 3 = 4GB.
— Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) September 13, 2015
We will know for sure how much RAM the new iPhone 6S has after the first dissection report. The first impressions of the iPhone 6S performance gains will become available later this week. Traditionally the tech pundits including Walt Mossberg release their iPhone 6S reviews before the iPhone 6S goes on sale on Friday, September 25.
The iPhone 6S is apparently off to a great start. The iPhone 6S Plus has sold out a couple hours after the iPhone 6S pre-order started. Select iPhone 6S models have now sold out as well and ship with a 2 to 3 week time frame. The sold out iPhone 6S models include the Rose Gold iPhone 6S 16GB.