Apple has been making the iPad more and more powerful with each iteration and the recently launched iPad Pro, which comes powered by the Apple M1 chipset, the technology giant is blurring the lines between the iPad and MacBook.

Despite the most powerful iPad and the MacBook being powered by the same chipset — Apple Silicon’s M1, there’s remains one major issue — software. The Mac devices are powered by the macOS and the iPad is powered by the iPadOS which is a tweaked iOS.

In the iPadOS, the third-party applications are limited to using just 5GB of RAM even though the tablet comes powered by 8GB and 16GB RAM. This is to ensure that a single application doesn’t utilize all of the memory and impact other core system functions.

Apple iPad Pro

With the latest iPadOS 15, it appears that Apple has increased the cap on RAM usage for third-party applications. In iPad Pro powered by 16GB RAM, developers can request 12GB of RAM while 4GB RAM will be reserved for the core system functions.

Similarly, for the device powered by 8GB RAM, the company is reserving 2GB RAM to system functions and allowing developers to use 6GB RAM. The iPad models with less than 5GB RAM will have the same limits as before.

The change in the memory allocation in iPadOS will be beneficial to applications that are more graphically intensive, such as apps that support drawing, modeling, photo editing or video editing, among others.

Apple has said that new entitlement will be available on the “supported devices” but the tech giant hasn’t revealed the list of supported devices, so at this point in time, it’s not known which devices will support it, apart from the iPad Pro.

The latest iPadOS 15 comes with some new features and several additions and improvements to the existing ones. The software is set to be released this Monday, i.e. 20th September along with the iOS 15, tvOS 15, and watchOS 8.

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