How To Speed Up iPhone (2020) | 7 Steps To Make Your iPhone Much Faster!
If you find that your iPhone is slowing down, there's a few tricks you can use to make sure
that it's running smoother.
Generally your iPhone slows down when you have too many files or too much data stored
on your phone.
There's a few ways that you can clear a lot of this up.
In the 'General' tab of your Settings, select 'iPhone Storage' to see what's taking up a
lot of room on your phone.
Apps. photos and media usually take up the most space, so the first step would be deleting
any old photos or videos that you may not need anymore, and consider deleting apps that
use the most data.
If you want to remove photos and videos from your iPhone but don't want to delete them
entirely, you can always use iCloud Photos, by clicking 'Enable' on the right.
Your camera will also create a 'Recently Deleted' Album and this holds photos and videos that
you've deleted from your Camera Roll for up to 30 days.
If you're sure you don't need these anymore then you can click 'Empty' to empty out your
deleted album.
If you scroll down more on your iPhone Storage page, you can see all the apps you use on
your phone and the amount of space they take up.
Some apps like Instagram don't store files on your phone but they store data and if you
delete the app and then re-install it onto your iPhone, you can clear the data from your
iPhone without losing your account information.
So if you delete Instagram from your phone and then re-download it, and then if you go
back to iPhone Storage, you'll see the amount of space Instagram takes up on your phone
is significantly less.
Messages is also a heavy app, and this is usually due to the photos, gifs and other
media shared in Messages.
People tend to not delete messages often and if you want to make sure that you are deleting
them consistently, go back to Settings and select Messages.
Under 'Message History,' select 'Keep Messages.'
Switch to 30 days or 1 year so that you're regularly deleting your messages.
Another reason why your iPhone may be running slow is because you have auto updates on.
This could either be for your phone or specific apps.
It's helpful to have this on, but because it slows down your iPhone you may want to
turn it off.
Go to 'General,' select 'Software Update' and click 'Automatic Updates' to turn the
toggle off.
If you want to stop apps from automatically updating, you can go to 'iTunes & App Store'
and select to keep your App updates off so that you can manually update them.
You can also unselect Music, Apps, Books & Audiobooks from automatically syncing with the other
devices you have.
Your Safari or other browser windows also store a lot of storage with the history, data
and cookies they keep.
To clear this go to Settings and select Safari or your other browser.
Scroll down to find 'Clear History and Website Data' and click 'Clear History and Data' to
remove any history, cookies and other browsing data stored on your phone.
iPhones us a lot of animations when opening apps and switching from different apps, and
while this is really nice aesthetically, it does slow down your iPhone.
Apple does give you the option to reduce the amount of animation.
In Settings, select 'Accessibility' and click 'Motion.'
Here you can turn on the toggle to reduce motion and you can also turn on the toggle
to prefer cross-fade transitions.
Once both toggles are on, you'll see that when you close apps or open them that the
motion transitions are no longer used.
Finally, the last thing you want to check to make sure your iPhone is running as fast
as possible, is your battery health.
As your iPhone gets older, the battery health deteriorates and sometimes may be time for
a new battery in order to keep your iPhone moving as fast as possible.
To check battery health, in Settings, click 'Battery.'
Select 'Battery Health.'
As you can see our maximum capacity is currently 97%.
Whenever this gets below 80% it's probably time for a new battery.
There are different tactics you can use to keep your battery health in check.
One of those is keeping on your toggle for 'Optimized Battery Charging.'
If you've done all this and still find your iPhone is extremely slow, you can always try
resetting your iPhone.
This is done by going to 'General' and scroll down to 'Reset.'
Select 'Erase All Content and Settings.'
Once you click it you'll be asked for a password or you can use Touch ID or Face ID to confirm,
and then you'll have to log in with your Apple ID to ensure the information is removed from
your device.
It's important to note that once you do erase all your content and settings, you lose that
information completely, so you'll want to first back up your iPhone, either on iCloud
or iTunes so that you can use that information again.
That's how to speed up your iPhone and make it faster!