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Here’s a free memory scanner app, named Memory Sweep (although it shows up as “Scan” on your app screen), that at this time is free (along with it’s advertising). Here’s what it will do:

1. Show how much memory is being used and how much is available.
2. Show running processes.
3. And most importantly, allows you to free up memory that was used by certain apps, but not returned to available memory. Some well known apps do this, such as the phone, email, Safari browser and others. Notice on the first image below that it shows Safari as running, even though it isn’t, since the memory scanner is running. This may save you a reboot if you have used some graphic intensive apps or games. ALSO! A very popular and similar program entitled “Free Memory” was removed from the App Store at the request of Apple. I guess they don’t want you to know that iPhone isn’t perfect, or they don’t want you to know the processes that are running. Why? So you might want to get this quick, before it disappears.