If your iPhone or iPod (or iPad soon) is acting up, then this is one way to figure out what’s going wrong. It give you a way to free up some memory on your device without restarting.
System Activity Monitor [App Store] Comes with digital Battery Level – a must for non-iPhone 3GS devices.
It’s like the Activity Monitor on your Mac but for your iPhone. You can view: - Runtime (RAM) memory usage - Storage (Disk) usage - All running processes - CPU usage - WiFi IP address - Device information
To free memory, touch the Free Memory button. It will free up memory for use by your other apps and games.
Memory on the iPhone and iPod Touch are limited to 128MB or 256MB of RAM. This memory must be shared with other background processes and apps. Apps like Mail, Safari and iPod continue running in the background even after you have closed them, consuming precious RAM. Have you experienced your games or apps quitting on you? Could it because they ran out of memory? Use the Free Memory button to free up memory before playing your memory intensive games or apps!
[ iTunes $2.99 System Activity Monitor ]
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