Yes because Apple is skimping on RAM in 1K$ phones. It's unreal that you can get much cheaper Android phones that have more memory than their entry level laptop

Yes because Apple is skimping on RAM in 1K$ phones. It's unreal that you can get much cheaper Android phones that have more memory than their entry level laptop. For a while there was marketing/excitement about the ability of iOS to compress RAM ; expect it cannot replace actually having the RAM to be used at any moment. Apple has been incredibly greedy and their user experience suffer tremendously. There really is no justification for shipping phones so expensive with so little RAM for so long besides ultra-greed. It makes the phones obsolete much earlier than they should be because while you can wait the work of a slower CPU if you can't fit your workload into RAM you are basically out of luck. If you had spent as much money on a flagship Android back then you would have gotten 4GB minimum with a Galaxy S9 but more likely 6-8GB with a S9+ or Note 9 that were the real price competitors of an iPhone X (still cheaper). So yeah iOS is aggressive in saving memory because it doesn't have much choice. Your iPhone 14 Pro has 6GB of RAM. This is 2GB less than a Galaxy S23 that cost almost half as much ; the Ultra version with 12GB of RAM still cost about as much. Even going with a 14 Pro Max would still only get you 6GB which is even worse of a joke considering the price. It's infuriating because considering how cheap RAM chips have become they only save a very small amount per phone but their faithfull users who paid the high price to get "the best" are thanked with these kind of real-world use case annoyances... To be honest I think it's kinda masochist to keep buying Apple products at the moment. I'm a first time iPhone user and I like iOS overall but the value proposition of even their cheapest product doesn't make sense anymore...