With the launch of the new iPad Pro line, Apple has finally publicly announced the amount of RAM contained in its devices. The new iPad Pro 2021 range with the M1 processor incorporates 8 GB of RAM in all models, an amount that doubles up to 16GB on 1TB and 2TB models.
However, and as the ad says Power without control is useless, Apple limit the amount of memory via iPadOS 14 that applications of this model can use. The maximum amount of memory they can use is 5 GB. Presumably, with iPadOS 15, Apple will allow developers to use more RAM from devices, otherwise there is no point in expanding the memory if none. third party application cannot take advantage of it.
This limit, as usual, was not officially announced by Apple, but rather we got to know it thanks to the developer of the application Procreate, an application that was updated a few days ago to adapt to the power offered by the M1 processor of the iPad Pro 2021.
This news was released after this update, as many were the users who they were disappointed with the number of layers which can be used in the app despite the considerable increase in device memory compared to previous models. With this latest update, the app increased the number of layers from 91 on the 2020 iPad Pro to 115 on the 2021 model.
The developer of Procreate said that the number of layers is limited because the application must adapt to the limited memory environment of the new iPad. This issue affects all multimedia applications intended for professionals, a limitation that will almost certainly disappear with the launch of iPadOS 15, the first beta of which is expected to be released in two weeks, after the end of the opening day of WWDC 2021.
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