Compared to iOS, Android has always given users more information about the underlying guts of the operating system. In Android Marshmallow, Google takes this one step further with a new memory manager that gives you all sorts of information on how your phone is using its RAM. Here’s how to navigate it.
Go to the Settings app, then tap Memory. Here you’ll get an at-a-glance overview of your phone’s memory usage for the past three hours: It includes your phone’s average total memory use for all apps and Android system components, your phone’s total memory, how much free memory remains, and the percent of memory currently in use. It also gives an indicator of how memory usage on your device has impacted its performance over that time.
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