Hi guys, David and David here from payetteforward.com, and in this video, we're going to explain
why your iPhone is so slow. At the end of 2017,
Apple was caught red-handed slowing down people's iPhones.
The reason they gave was that older iPhones with older batteries couldn't support Peak
Performance.
However, after they were caught they decided it would be a good idea to give people the
ability to turn off this Performance Management. AKA —
We just slowed down your iPhone. So let's go to the Battery section of the Settings app.
Settings, down to battery down to battery.
Did I miss it?
There it is. And then tap on Battery Health.
David's battery is still at maximum capacity 100% — it's a brand new phone — but if yours is not that high, underneath
Peak Performance capability here, you're going to see a longer explanation and there's a
little tiny blue disable button.
If you hit that button, you will see a pop-up that says "Disabling may lead to unexpected
shut downs," which is meant to scare you, but don't be scared — tap disable.
You're gonna be fine.
It's load of crap.
They made up a reason because they didn't want to get sued.
There's actually a lot of more reasons.
Why not just this controversy, right?
And our next step is going to be check out iPhone storage.
So that's go back.
Yep back to Settings. Tap General. Tap iPhone storage.
It's important to have an ample amount of iPhone storage space available for your iPhone
to use for files that it downloads in the background or other apps.
So if you have zero gigabytes left, delete some of your apps, delete some photos,
free
up some space.
Your iPhone is going to get faster.
Yeah.
Absolutely. Simple Solution.
Usually at least gigabyte.
Yeah general rule of thumb.
So our next step is to close out of all your apps on your iPhone.
So on an iPhone 8 and older double tap the Home button and then swipe all your apps off
the top of the screen.
On iPhone X, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to the center of the screen.
Wait there a second your apps will appear. iOS 11, press and hold the app preview until the red minus
button appears from up after that. iOS 12,
there's no pressing and holding.
You can just swipe right away and close all your apps.
I like that a lot better.
So our next step is to check for an iOS update on your iPhone. Go to Settings and then head
down to General and then Software Update David has no Software Updates available one is available
just tap Download & Install.
So the overall philosophy here is your iPhone was slow because there's a lot of stuff going
on in the background and a lot of it probably doesn't have to be going out of the background.
So Background App Refresh: apps in the background that you're not using are downloading new
content that's going to slow down your iPhone.
We're gonna talk about widgets in a second.
Yep, and Notifications all these things are running in the background of your iPhone.
We already talked about closing out your apps that's going to clear up some memory. That's
gonna make things faster.
Basically we want to make your iPhone's operating system as light as possible with as few things
running as possible so that you can still use your phone, but it's not being super slow.
So let's start Background App Refresh. Go back to General.
Yep, and then tap Background App Refresh.
So if you don't want the app to download new content in the background of your iPhone just
turn off the switch next to the app.
Uh, the Books app.
For example, right?
We turn this off for almost every app on our iPhones because who needs the Buffer app to
be able to download new content the background when you're not using it? Certainly not me! Fabulous.
So next let's talk about widgets. Widgets are little programs that run in the Home screen
of your iPhone.
Let's show them where they are.
Yep, so you have swipe left or right here.
And now these are my widgets.
How do we get rid of them? Tap that circular Edit button below the widgets, you might if
you have a lot of widgets, you might have to scroll down a little bit and remove a widget
you can just tap that red minus button to the left of it and then tap Remove. And now
it is gone. When you're all set and done, just tap Done
in the right-hand corner.
And finally, there's Notifications.
Sometimes these apps are sending you Notifications and alerts that are popping up and you don't
need that to be happening.
Let's turn off Notifications for those apps.
So go to Settings -> Notifications. So you got a list of all your apps.
Go one by one, "Does this app need to send me Notifications? Does the Books app need to send
me Notifications?
It certainly does not. Allow Notifications, turn that switch off by tapping it. Boom.
Now it's off.
So our next tip is just to turn your iPhone off and back on once a week is usually fine.
So if you have an iPhone 8 earlier press and hold the power button on the side until slide
to power off of appears. Swipe that left right across the screen. On the iPhone X, it is the side
button and either volume button.
Yeah together.
Yep until slide to power off peers slide it.
I'm not gonna turn my phone off now, but you get the gist. After your iPhone has been turned
off,
wait a few seconds, press the power button
again, it'll turn back on.
So next let's talk about how to speed up Safari specifically. It's one of your most popular apps,
used all the time.
And if it's slow, internet's slow, that's a pain in the butt.
So Safari is one of those apps that downloads a lot of content in the background when you're
using the internet so that it doesn't have to redownload.
It's called a cache.
You've probably heard of that.
So if we eliminate that cache, it's going to clear up a database and it's going to make
your iPhone.
faster. Let's go to Settings.
Go back to the main section of the Settings app. Scroll down to Safari and then scroll
down to Clear History and Website Data. Tap on that.
Yeah confirm and now it's been cleared.
Yep, cache is cleared.
Yep.
And Safari also has this thing where you could open lots and lots of tabs.
Do we have a video about that?
We have video how to close all your tabs at once.
Let's just link to that up there and the comments down below.
You may be surprised by how many Tabs are open on Safari. It can get away from you.
My mom watches,
she had like 60 tabs open.
She's did not know what's going on.
So that's a that's a good good watch.
I'll help you out.
So if you work through all these steps, your iPhone is still slow,
give it a few days, test it out.
See how it goes.
But if it's still slow, we recommend a Reset All Settings, right so go back to the main
section of the Settings app scroll up to General and scroll down to reset and then Reset All
Settings Reset All Settings resets everything in the Settings app, and it kind of is a magic
bullet to fix a lot of software problems, but it doesn't delete any of your apps or
other personal data. It fixes a lot of things but doesn't fix everything. If that doesn't
work you need to do a DFU restore on your iPhone.
And that's the deepest type of restore that you can do on an iPhone. We'll link that in the
card to come above and the description section down below.
That is why your iPhone is so slow.
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