- In a perfect world,
you wouldn't need to free up RAM
or random-access memory on your Android.
It's there to keep it running efficiently and smoothly.
However, sometimes just one bad app
can really halt all the RAM on your Android,
slow it way down.
- This video, I think is gonna help
two different groups of people.
It's gonna help the people with the new phones
that have tons of memory,
like the new Samsung Galaxy phones,
and it's gonna help the people with older phones
that don't have as much memory to work with.
- Yeah.
- Two different use cases.
One video.
Let's get into it.
- The phone we're using is the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3.
And despite its many, many faults,
it does have a gigabytes of RAM,
which is more than enough for most people.
But you're here to learn how to reduce RAM usage.
We'll start in the settings app
swipe down the upper right hand corner of the screen
and tap on the settings gear.
Then scroll down and tap battery and device care,
then tap battery, scroll down
and tap background usage limits.
- This makes your phone, the parent kind of
you're putting the kids to sleep, the apps to sleep.
There's only so much bandwidth
that a phone has,
this lets it shut the things
that it doesn't need running down.
- Yep. So we tap on sleeping apps real quick.
Sleeping apps will run apps
in the background only occasionally
whereas deep sleeping apps,
deep sleeping apps will never run
in the background of your Android.
So if you have an app that's a really heavy app
maybe Facebook, for example
and you just don't want that to run in the background.
And if it crashes or lock could go wrong
you can just tap that app plus button
upper right hand corner of the screen
and add whatever apps you want to deep sleep.
Tap add, there you go.
- Facebook is one of those heavy apps,
those bloated apps that really can take up a lot of memory
both in the foreground and in the background.
- Yep. Let's tap back.
And then back again, using that arrow
in the upper left hand corner of the screen,
then tap on more battery settings.
Then here at the top of the screen,
turn on that switch next to adaptive battery
limit battery usage for apps that you don't use often.
- With adaptive battery turned on,
your phone keeps track of the apps that you use most often
and keeps them loaded in RAM, which is not a bad thing,
but it also figures out which apps you don't use that often
and kills 'em off right away
when you don't need them anymore.
So it's sort of a smartphone setting.
It is a smartphone.
- It is a smartphone
and they do have a lot of smartphone settings.
- This adaptive battery is a relatively new feature
on Android and they come up with new ones all the time
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- So let's go back to the home screen.
Now we picked on Facebook a little bit earlier,
and if you have any issues with Facebook or Messenger
there are lite versions of those apps,
and there are lite versions of some apps
on Android that just use less RAM
and they also are better
for when you're in low cellular areas.
They tend to have less data on the apps
that are easier to load over 2G or 3G.
So if you go to the Google Play Store
type in Facebook Lite, for an example,
let's tap into the search there.
Facebook Lite install.
Good way that you still use Facebook,
but use a little bit less RAM when you're doing it.
- Even if you have a new phone,
this is gonna make the Facebook app faster.
I think everybody should start here,
and then if they're missing features,
go to Facebook heavy.
And you can tell that they're conscious
that their main app is bloated
because they're the ones that are building this app.
- Yeah. They also have a Messenger Lite app.
I think Facebook recognized they have some issues
and they said, "All right.
"Well, here's some Lite versions for you."
- I mean, how robust does the Messenger app
really need to be?
- Not at all.
Next, don't use a live wallpaper,
that video constantly running on the home screen
of your Android, especially when you're on the home screen,
it's just gonna use more RAM than a static image.
Let's go back to the settings app,
swipe down upper right hand corner of the screen.
Tap that settings gear,
scroll up until you see wallpaper and style.
And here's where you can actually choose
where that wallpaper is.
So for example, you got my wallpaper, come here,
choose one of these.
These are all video wallpaper, by the way
plus a video down there
makes it easy to see which is which,
but maybe you wanna change it to a home screen,
lock screen, static image,
just tap on that one,
lock and home screens, set on lock and home screens.
And there we've applied that to the home screen,
and now it's not a video, it's just a static image.
It's gonna use less RAM.
- Don't assume that all videos are the same here
because the ones that they're building in
are gonna be optimized.
- Yeah.
The ones that you make on your phone
are probably not gonna be optimized.
- Or the ones that you download from TikTok,
they have no chance. - Not gonna be optimized.
- Next.
Make sure you don't have a ton of Chrome tabs
open on your Android.
People like me, we leave hundreds of tabs open sometimes
and just forget to close out of them,
We open up a new tab every time we go into Chrome or Safari.
- One of the ways that you know an app
is using a lot of RAM is if you're using it,
it starts to slow down.
So if you've ever been on a website
and it's going along zippy, zippy,
and then you're like,
it's just getting slower and slower.
Anyway, close that tap.
Your phone will instantly become faster.
Even if you go to the same page again,
sometimes things could break on websites,
then just fills up the RAM.
- So let's go to the home screen.
I'm gonna tap that square button bottom of the screen
tap on Chrome.
Up here in the upper right hand corner of the screen,
you got a box with the number in it, the
that's the number of tabs open on your Android.
Tap on that.
So you have a bunch of tabs open.
You could go one by one tapping all those small Xs,
but sometimes what I like to do
tap on that three vertical dots
upper right hand corner of the screen,
also known as the more button,
tap on that and then tap close all tabs.
- I thought you were gonna say, buy a new phone.
- Buy a new phone.
You could buy a new phone
instead of closing all your tabs-
that would work, too. - Close those apps.
- So now we go back into Chrome.
As you can see, we've got one tab now,
that's the tab I'm in.
Next, we're gonna talk about how to identify
these problem apps that can really hoard all the RAM
on your Android.
Let's go back to the settings app,
swipe down upper right hand corner of the screen,
and then tap on that settings gear.
Scroll down until you see apps, tap on that.
- The numbers that you see underneath each app
are not memory, they're storage numbers.
So if you have a 64 gigabyte phone
that's that.
Memory, you have to tap on the app.
Let's look at Facebook.
- Facebook.
So in Facebook, if you scroll down two memory
358 kilobytes used on average in the last three hours.
- That's because David has not used this app.
You're gonna see a lot higher number than that.
That's nothing.
Let's go to Chrome.
See what that's used.
- Go back to Chrome, tap back,
scroll, tap on Chrome, scroll down to memory,
111 megabytes.
- And how much have you used Chrome?
Not a ton, right?
- Not a ton.
- Right.
- So really look out for these gigantic outlier numbers
high megabytes, even into the gigabytes.
- Right. And this is where David is showing you
how to do things objectively.
I'm saying, go into your phone as you're using it
and just get touch with it,
and feel if it's slow, does it feel burdened?
Go into here and check to see if it really is.
- Right.
If you see an app that's using a ton of memory
a few things you can do, first of all
there's that big force stop button
at the bottom of the screen, that'll do what it says.
It'll force the app to stop running,
just kill the process altogether.
- Also kind of a lame Jedi power,
I guess we can't all be Anakin Skywalker.
- My powers have doubled since the last time we met count.
- That some of us could just force stop
- That's for sure.
Now go back into the app, see if it's working better now.
If it's not, check for an app update
you might bring an outdated version of the app
that doesn't have the latest code
and that can cause problems.
Go back to the home screen, tap on the Play Store
to open that app,
go back to the main page of the Play Store
and tap on your account icon at the top of the screen,
then tap manage apps and devices.
You'll see updates available.
I've got 27 updates available.
- You sound surprised by that.
- Yeah. Tap--
- No, we're not surprised,
we did this on purpose to show you.
- Yes. You can either tap update all here
or you can tap on updates available
and just go by one with your apps, but--
- Who's gonna do that?
- Update all is probably the way to go.
And if the app continues to cause problems
after you've updated it,
it might be time to delete and reinstall,
there could be a corrupted file in the app
that's causing a bunch of problems for you,
deleting it and then reinstalling it
gives a nice, fresh start.
A lot of articles about reducing RAM usage on Android
mention these third party app task killers,
we don't really recommend you using those.
- Those can be problematic, not really for what they do
as much as the spyware and malware and all the crap
that comes muddled with them.
All these kind of crappy utility apps
really are just not very trustworthy.
- Yeah. They can often cause more harm than good
especially if the developer isn't a very good developer.
- Exactly. And I mean, these are really like just cash cows
for these developers.
They stick a bunch of ads in 'em
and not all the processes on your phone are bad.
- Instead of downloading the third party app task killer
we recommend is making sure your Android
is always up-to-date.
Let's go back to the settings app,
tap on that settings gear
and the scroll down to software update, tap on that.
Then tap download and install.
They'll check if a new update is available
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they'll say download and install,
just tap that button.
The update will download and install.
That is how to reduce--
- I'm sorry.
- No, I was just gonna give Larry Nicholson a shout out.
- Oh, sure.
- For being our first Super David.
(people cheering)
I mean, thanks Larry. Seriously.
- Thanks you, Larry.
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