In today’s video, I’ll be showing you ten easy ways you can speed up your Android
phone. Whether your phone is old and running slow or you just want a bit of a performance
boost, hopefully this video will help. Throughout today’s video, the method to change some
of the settings might be slightly different depending on the device manufacturer, as some
will run slightly different versions of Android. I’ll be using a Samsung device but whatever
your device is you should still be able to follow along. Remember to leave a like and
feel free to subscribe if the video helps, let’s move on to the methods to boost our
phone’s performance. The first method is to optimise our device.
To do this we might be able to use an automatic tool built into our phone’s settings. This
will help remove unnecessary files, close background processes and should improve performance
and battery life instantly. To check if your phone can do this, go to the settings and
look for an option called device care or similar. In here, I can choose optimise now and it
will automatically run the tool. If you are unable to find this setting or any of the
other settings in the video, then you might be able to search for it in your settings
page to get there. If you don’t see this option anywhere after looking through your
settings, there should be plenty of free apps that will do the same thing on the play store.
You could use the reviews at the time of looking to help you choose the best optimisation app.
Another quick tip on the theme of optimisation is to set your phone to auto restart. This
should help keep your device fresh. To do this, either search auto restart or look for
it in the settings. It might be located in the advanced settings. Turn it on first and
then set the days and time it will restart your phone. Select a time that you know you
won’t need your phone and that’s it. Let’s move on to method two.
The next method is to free up space on your device. Your device will be able to run much
more efficiently if it isn’t running low on storage space so this one should help a
lot, especially if you are almost out of space. There are a number of ways to free up space
on your device, you can remove files you don’t need such as those in your downloads folder
or you could delete photos and videos that you don’t want to keep. There might also
be a way to free up space automatically on your phone, and just like in the last method,
this was done by using the device care optimisation tool. There will also be third party storage
cleaning apps available on the Play Store, like I mentioned earlier, so you could try
one of those to help you free up space automatically. The next method links to the last one and
it is to remove any apps that you don’t use. Not only will this help to free up space,
but it will also stop these apps from running in the background for example. To remove apps
that you don’t use, go to settings and then find the apps or applications option. You
should see the list of apps on this page and all you need to do is go down the list and
look for apps that you don’t use. To remove an app from your device, select it in here
and then choose uninstall. Of course, you can uninstall apps the traditional way from
your apps screen or home page, but within the app settings, it will tell you more about
the app such as the amount of storage space it takes up and that should help you make
the decision on whether it’s worth removing or not.
Method four to speed up your android phone is to close and prevent apps from running
in the background. Any app that runs in the background will use up things like RAM and
the processor and this can be prevented. To close apps that are running in the background,
you need to go back to the apps section of the settings, however, you might first want
to check which apps are being used the most in the background. A good to tip for this
is to check how much battery each app uses in the background as this is an indicator
as to how much hardware it is using. This can be found by going to the battery settings
which are in the device care settings for me. You should be able to find the list of
apps that use the most battery and it might display how much is being used whilst they
are running in the background. Identify the apps using the most battery in the background
and now go to the apps section of the settings. Find the apps on this list and tap on them,
now this method might be different for you but click on battery and then turn off the
toggle switch that allows background activity. You will probably want to avoid changing this
setting for apps you use often or rely on notifications from. Let’s move on to the
next method. The next method is to change and disable some
of the animation settings. This should help if you have a really old phone and even if
it doesn’t dramatically improve the speed of it, it should make your device feel more
responsive. The method to change the animation settings may be different, for me it’s within
the advanced features section of the settings but search for animations if you can’t find
it. I have the option to turn on reduced animations and this should help speed up the device.
You might also be able to completely remove animations; this option is within the accessibility
settings for me. Let’s move on to method six.
The sixth method to speed up your Android device is to clean up your home screen and
remove any widgets that are on it. Things like a weather widget might cause your device
to slow down, as it has to constantly be updated. Email inbox and music player widgets are common
too and these will cause the same problem. You can remove them by holding them and then
by choosing the bin icon, but this might be slightly different for your device. If your
home screen is full of apps, this could also slow down your device, so just leave the apps
you use often on here. Removing them from the home screen won’t delete them and you
use the same method as with the widgets to remove them.
The seventh method is to turn on data saver or lite mode in Google Chrome. This won’t
speed up your entire device, but it should speed up Chrome and reduce page load times.
To turn on data saver or lite mode as it might be called, load up the Chrome browser and
tap on the three dots icon in the top right. Now choose settings from the list and in here,
scroll down until you find where it says lite mode. It should be in the advanced section.
Tap on it and then use the toggle switch to turn it on. Let’s move on to the next method.
The eighth method to speed up your phone or tablet is to make sure you are running the
latest version of Android. Using an older version could cause compatibility issues and
therefore slow down your device. The update might also fix bugs that could be slowing
down phone. To check that you have the latest update installed, go into the settings and
look for an option called software update or similar. In there, you should be able to
check for updates by choosing download and install, or at least that is the option that
works for me. If there is an update, you can download it and install it now, but if you
are going to restart to fully complete the update, just make sure you have your work
or progress saved before doing so. We can now move on to method nine.
The next method is to clear the app cache of any app that isn’t working properly or
running slowly. I know that this has worked well in the past for me on Chrome for example.
Clearing the app cache shouldn’t cause any issues but you might need to sign back into
these apps. It should be worth it and to clear the app cache you need to go to the application
settings. This is the same settings page that we were in for some of the earlier methods.
Find the apps on the list that are running slowly and on the next page there should be
an option called storage or similar. Tap on that and on the next screen there should be
an option called clear cache. There will also be one called clear data, but we don’t want
to do that. We just need to tap on clear cache and that’s it. Let’s move onto the final
method. The final method to speed up your android
device is an extreme one, it is to factory reset your device. You should only do this
as a last resort and before doing so, please make sure you have everything backed up or
stored in the cloud and that you are prepared to load your apps and files back onto your
device. To completely reset your phone, there should be a reset option in the settings.
For me it’s in the general management section. On the reset screen, the option called factory
reset is the one you want to choose. Please double check before resetting as I am not
responsible if you lose any data that you haven’t backed up.
And so those are my ten easy methods to speed up your Android phone or tablet! If you have
any questions, then let me know in the comments below and if you did find today’s video
helpful remember to leave a like and feel free to subscribe for more tips in the future.
Be sure to stick around to see some of my other videos that you might be interested
in. Thanks so much for watching and I will see you in another video!