Part 2: No, not really. Memory exceptions (what a seg fault is) happen because you’re accessing memory that you either never allocated or have already freed, neither of which will happen due to direct lack of memory. Keep in mind that your app can't really run out of memory in the way you're describing. SO, the issue here is that the term memory is commonly used to describe two separate, but distinct, concepts: How much RAM your process is using. How much address space your process has been given by the system. The important thing to understand here is that those two factors are somewhat independent of each other. In simple terms, address space is what you actually use when you call “malloc, but RAM usage doesn't change until you actually touch the memory you've malloc'd. Similarly, the question here: is it possible that memory usage has increased significantly in iOS 26.4 compared to previous OS versions? ...doesn't really make sense in the context of address space. Real RAM usage changes c
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App & System Services
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Core OS