Find Apps Taking Up RAM on a Nexus 6P

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Video: Find Apps Taking Up RAM on a Nexus 6P

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You're watching VisiHow. In this tutorial, I'm going to demonstrate how to find applications that are taking up a lot of memory on your Nexus 6P. This might be useful in identifying apps that are slowing down your phone too much.

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   On the home screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top

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   Now, tap on the gear-shaped icon in the upper-right hand corner of the screen

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   Scroll down until you reach "Memory" and tap on it

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   You can see that the "Average memory use" is at 1.7 GB. And the "Total memory" is 2.6 GB, which leaves about 0.9 GB free.

   

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   I can tap on "Memory use by apps"

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   Now, the phone will show me a list of all the apps.

   

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   I can sort this list by maximum usage by pressing "Sort by max use."

   

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   Now, I can make informed decisions on which apps are potentially slowing my phone down

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   Right now I am not having a problem, but this would be useful to come back to if I ever did start to experience very slow performance on my phone.

   

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