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by musicale 1319 days ago
IIRC from WWDC they said that inactive/suspended apps get their memory compressed to free up memory for the current active/foreground app.

Seems to mesh well with the iOS idea of using a single app at a time and minimizing background processing in apps that you aren't actively using.

In an out of memory situation I think apps just get killed as you suggest.