Apple doesn’t talk much about RAM and iPads. Popular iPad games, however, are forcing the conversation. Fortnite and Roblox, for example, are saying game over to an iPad model with a kid-friendly price that Apple sold until last year.
What you should know
Roblox is breaking on iPads with 3GB RAM or less
Fortnite requires at least 4GB RAM to launch
Apple stopped selling iPads with 3GB RAM in May 2024
How iPad games are breaking
Epic Games brought Fortnite back to the U.S. App Store in May 2025, requiring at least 4GB RAM for the online multiplayer title to actually work on iPad. Devices with 3GB RAM can install Fortnite, but the game won’t actually launch.
Meanwhile, Roblox has a lower minimum hardware requirement to run. Instead, players are randomly accessing “Low Memory Warning” messages during playback.
The alert could easily be misunderstood to mean that the device is low on free storage. However, memory refers to RAM (random access memory) in this case.
Roblox documents the “Low Memory Warning (Error Code: 292)” alert on its support site:
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