{"id":238899,"date":"2026-05-04T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/i-found-a-hidden-android-tool-that-shows-which-apps-are-hogging-ram\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T08:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T12:40:09","slug":"i-found-a-hidden-android-tool-that-shows-which-apps-are-hogging-ram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/04\/i-found-a-hidden-android-tool-that-shows-which-apps-are-hogging-ram\/","title":{"rendered":"I found a hidden Android tool that shows which apps are hogging RAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hidden-android-tool-that-shows-ram-usage\/\">I found a hidden Android tool that shows which apps are hogging RAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hidden-android-tool-that-shows-ram-usage\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hidden-android-tool-that-shows-ram-usage\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-04 08:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we&#8217;ve reached a point where you don&#8217;t really need to upgrade your smartphone every year or two. My Google Pixel 9 Pro from 2024 is still going strong, and unless the upgrades are significant, I don&#8217;t see myself moving to the Pixel 11 Pro either.<\/p>\n<p>However, the downside of holding on to your phone for longer is that it slowly turns into a bit of a junkyard. Over time, you keep installing apps you need, and unlike earlier, when switching phones meant starting fresh, everything just piles up. At this point, I have well over 100 apps on my phone.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with that is that many of these apps keep running in the background, using RAM and system resources even when you&#8217;re not actively using them. That can lead to your phone feeling slower, more jittery, or just not as smooth as it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Android has a hidden setting that lets you see exactly how much memory each app is using. It makes it much easier to figure out which apps are worth keeping and which ones are just sitting there consuming resources and slowing down your phone.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tMy phone felt due for an upgrade until I changed these settings<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I didn&#8217;t realize how much these features were affecting my phone<\/p>\n<p>     &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hidden-android-tool-that-shows-ram-usage\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found a hidden Android tool that shows which apps are hogging RAM https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/hidden-android-tool-that-shows-ram-usage\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/android-ram-usage-main.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[70,72],"class_list":["post-238899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android","tag-google","tag-pixel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238901,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238899\/revisions\/238901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}