- David and David here.
Let's talk about why your iPhone is so slow.
- A lot of people say that iPhones get slower with age
and that's true to some extent.
But a lot of the time,
it has something to do with the software on your iPhone.
And if a piece of software,
otherwise known as an app,
if an app malfunctions,
then that can rev the CPU up to 100%,
or fill up the RAM,
or do something to create a bottleneck,
so that everything else slows down on your iPhone.
So the real fixes for this
are either in the settings app,
or we look at the individual apps
that might be causing the problem.
So, first question is to ask yourself
"is this happening with every app that I use on my iPhone,
or is it only happening in a specific app?"
If it's only happening in a specific app,
probably uninstall the app, reinstall it.
But let's dive in.
- Yeah. So let's talk about background app refresh first.
- Background app refresh allows certain apps
to download new content in the background
of your iPhone when you're not using your iPhone.
So in addition to the cellular data issues
that this can present,
it can also slow down your iPhone,
especially if one of the apps
that you have is using this,
maybe misusing this background app refresh feature.
- Yeah. So let's open up the settings app.
I will scroll down and tap general,
and then we'll tap on background app refresh.
Here you have a list of all the apps
that can download new content
in the background of your iPhone.
Ask yourself,
"do I want the books app to be able to do that?"
- Yeah. And let's just briefly mention
the top setting there.
We don't recommend turning off background app refresh
completely but we do recommend setting it to wifi.
- Yeah. So if you just tap on that,
just make sure the check mark is next to wifi
and not wifi and cellular data.
Let's go back to background app refresh.
So just go through this list of apps.
Which ones don't you need
to have downloading new content in the background.
You know.
- It's pretty much every app on the list.
- Pretty much, pretty much every-
I'm going to add notes.
But a thing like stocks, you know,
stocks pre-installed on your iPhone.
I don't own any stocks.
I don't need that app.
I don't even need the app on my iPhone really.
- Yeah, you don't need money. You're past that.
- Yeah. Let's talk about the next thing
that's clearing up some stores space.
- Yeah, somebody wants a 401k plan, I get it, David.
So, your iPhone has a solid state drive
but if the storage space becomes filled up,
then your operating system doesn't have enough room
on the hard drive to work.
This is either a-
we can get really technical with this David,
or we can just tell you how to fix it.
Let's just skip to the fix it. - Yeah, let's go,
go back.
And then right above background app refresh
is iPhone storage.
Check this out,
see what is taking up all your storage space.
I went through this morning
and cleared up some stuff.
One thing that Apple recommends
is deleting your recently deleted album.
I had like two gigabytes of photos that I had deleted,
but they were still stuck
in that recently deleted for 30 days.
- Yep. - Just clear that out now,
save some immediate gigabytes.
Also, software updates can be pretty big.
- Yeah. Software updates,
a lot of the time,
five gigabytes now? Four? - Yeah.
- It's pretty crazy how big they're getting.
And when you look down here
and you see 64 gigabytes used,
the old rule of thumb for PCs
was to have twice the amount
of RAM on your PC
available on the hard drive.
So if you had four gigabytes of RAM,
you want to have at least eight gigabytes of storage.
iPhones are a little bit more advanced than that.
But I think a good rule of thumb is, you know,
be sure that you have at least two gigabytes
of storage available and you should be fine.
This should not be the bottleneck.
- Yeah.
So you know, you can see for me,
it's probably the same for you.
Photos is the big, big killer here.
- Yeah, definitely.
But sometimes it's like a game.
Actually for me, it's my golf app,
because I have, like,
tons of slow motion swings
that who knew took up tons of data.
- You can just scroll down here
and see which apps are taking up the most.
If you see any that are abnormally large,
you can tap it here, books, you know.
Maybe you want to offload the app,
maybe it's an app that you don't really use
that much anymore.
You don't need it on your iPhone. Tap offload.
- Yup. - Offload app.
- The next thing we want to recommend
is checking for an iOS update.
- Yep. Apple will regularly release these updates.
Fix some bugs,
can speed up your iPhone.
I'll just tap back,
upper left-hand corner of the screen,
back to general and tap on software update.
So iOS 14.5 is available.
Well we are beta developers. (crowd oohs)
And iOS 14.6 developer beta one is available.
- You probably won't see that on your iPhone,
unless you're also a developer.
- Yeah. If you go back here,
if you see an update available,
tap download and install.
- Yep. - Good idea to update
your iPhone whenever there's an update available.
- If you're a developer though,
and your iPhone is slow,
and you're watching this video,
you should understand that beta versions are often slower
than the ones that they release
cause they have all sorts of extra stuff built into them.
- The next thing I want to talk about is widgets.
Widgets are those little mini apps
that run on your iPhone with iOS 14.
You can add the, you know,
the more interactive widgets right to the home screen.
But if you had a whole bunch of widgets,
they can slow down your iPhone.
- Right. Capacity.
We're talking about bottlenecks, CPU, RAM,
stuff going on in the background of your iPhone.
Let's check out widgets.
- Yeah. So to go back to the home screen,
just gonna swipe up here.
So as you can see on my home screen right now,
I have the weather widget and the calendar widget.
And then if I swipe left to right,
I've got a couple more widgets here.
And you can see I've got calendar in both spots.
Probably don't need that.
So, press and hold on the widget you want to remove,
and then just tap remove widget,
and then tap remove.
- Brilliant. - Yep.
- Let's talk about battery life real quick.
Because the battery section of the settings app
is a great place to go.
Why?
Because usually things that are slowing down your iPhone,
are also, you know,
using a lot of resources
and using a lot of battery life.
So let's head to the battery section in the settings app
and see if we can identify any culprits here.
- Yeah, so I'll swipe left to right, tap on settings.
We're still in software updates, so tap back to general,
upper left-hand corner of the screen,
back to settings and then tap on battery.
There it is. Battery.
- This could also be called slumming down your iPhone.
- So I'm just going to scroll down here.
Twitter, 31%.
Exposure notifications, 21%.
My exposure notifications really does a lot to my battery.
- Well that's the thing. And slows down your iPhone.
- Yep. - Yep.
There's no way that it's using battery life
and not slowing down your iPhone.
- Yeah. And then, you know,
I'm gonna keep it until we, kind of,
get through the pandemic.
But once the pandemic is over,
exposure notifications has got to go.
It's always,
always on the top,
and it's a little frustrating.
Next let's talk about mail settings.
If you have push turned on, on your iPhone,
your iPhone is going to be constantly asking
"is there mail? Is there mail? Is there mail?"
If you switch it to fetch,
it's going to ask every 15, 30 or 60 minutes.
Your iPhone is doing less.
It's gonna speed up. - Yup.
- So we'll tap back to settings,
upper left hand corner of the screen,
and then come down and tap on mail.
Tap accounts and then tap fetch new data.
Right at the start,
you got push turned on at the top of the screen.
Turn off that switch.
And then down here underneath fetch,
you can fetch manually,
hourly, every 30 minutes, every 15 minutes.
I don't really use mail on my iPhone all that often,
so 30 minutes is fine for me.
- It's great.
An iPhone expert doesn't use mail.
- Everybody's an idiot, except for me.
- Well it's true.
- Important to keep in mind too,
that anytime you open a mail app,
it's going to fetch those new emails.
So you have to wait 30 minutes.
- So now I think we're going to get
into some of the more specific app issues
that can cause your iPhone to slow down.
First, and don't yell at me people,
(crowd yelling)
close out your apps.
People are saying,
this should never,
you know, be a thing.
You should never have to close out your apps.
And I agree.
You should never have to close out your apps.
Certain apps will rev the CPU up to 100%
and get stuck and crash.
Apple isn't going to admit this,
but it's the truth.
How do we close out our apps David?
- Yep. So if you have an iPhone with the home button,
double press that home button,
that'll open the app switcher.
If you have an iPhone 10 or newer,
any one with a face ID,
take it from the bottom to the center of the screen,
hold your finger there,
and now you're in the apps switcher.
And then you just swipe it up
and off the top of the screen. (glass shattering)
- Closes the apps.
- Yep. Shouldn't have to do it,
but it's a good idea.
- Yep. If that doesn't work,
check for an app update.
Maybe the developer caught a bug,
they're going to issue an app update to fix the problem.
So, - Right.
- I'm going to tap out of the app switcher
and go to the app store.
Tap app store.
Tap on your account icon,
upper right hand corner of the screen.
And then come down here to upcoming automatic updates.
Here's the list of your apps and updates available.
I just like to tap update all.
Get them all done at once.
- Good for you. You're efficient.
It doesn't let you go through
and tap update on each individual one.
Mr.Efficiency!
- But wait, there's more!
- Update the app, still slow, delete and re-install.
- Delete and reinstall the app
if that's the problem.
Safari.
Big problem for a lot of people.
Because especially when people
don't understand how tabs work,
they can end up with 1000 open tabs in our iPhone.
And your iPhone is really fast,
but it really isn't built for 100 tabs that are open.
To fix this really easily,
we can just go to the settings app, right?
- Yep. So let's go back to the app switcher.
I'm going to switch back to settings,
tap on settings, tap back on accounts,
upper left hand corner of the screen.
Tap back on mail, tap back to settings.
And we're gonna come down here to safari.
Scroll down and then tap clear history and website data.
- Right.
Clearing will remove your history,
your cookies and other browsing data.
Cookies, in this case,
if you've gone to Pandora and you haven't logged in
and you have a playlist,
the cookie is what's saving the playlist,
it's gonna be gone. Your playlist is gone.
Somebody yelled at me at the apple store once.
They called me an idiot
cause I fixed their computer,
but also deleted their Pandora playlist.
- Yeah. But if you have, you know,
password saved,
it's not going to just delete those passwords.
Those will still be saved.
- Right. And shopping cart.
If you're logged in, it will be saved.
If you're not logged in, it's going to be empty.
Pretty much an okay idea to do this.
It's kind of like a reset for the browser. Do it.
- Yeah. Just tap clear history and data.
There you go.
It'll be grayed out after you do that.
- If You've done all these tips
and your iPhone is still slow,
after a few days, give it a few days, a week.
It's time to reset all settings.
But before you do,
listen to what David has to say.
- Yeah. So this resets everything
in the settings app to factory default.
Your Bluetooth devices are gone.
Wifi passwords gone. Wallpaper gone.
If you've watched our nine iPhone settings
to turn off now video,
those are going to get set back to factory default.
So,
be very certain that your iPhone is slow
- Yeah. - and it's not,
like, a specific app or anything,
because this is going to essentially,
it's going to send everything back to factory defaults.
- Factory Defaults, right.
But it is going to make your iPhone faster.
- Let's tap back to settings,
upper left-hand corner of the screen.
Scroll up and tap general.
Come down here to reset,
and then tap reset all settings.
You'll be asked to enter your password,
confirmation pop-up will appear saying
"are you sure you want to do this?"
And you tap reset all settings
and then the reset will happen.
- The phone reboots and hopefully it's faster.
Last thing is really not a fix that we could do,
except recommend upphone.com/phones.
Get a new iPhone.
Every year, Apple releases a brand new processor.
iPhone processors are tremendously fast.
So part of the reason to get a new iPhone,
since a lot of the time
older iPhone's hardware is still solid,
is that it's just zippier.
- If you're on an iPhone 4 still,
- It's time.
- it might be time to get a new phone.
That's what to do when your iPhone is slow.
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