is your iphone running slower than molasses
well in this video i'm gonna show you just how to fix a slow iphone
hey friends i'm tasha custody and welcome back to my youtube channel where i share tech tips and app
reviews if you're riddled with a slow iphone no worries because today i'm gonna show you
five tips to speed up your iphone so let's go tip number one to speed up your iphone clear your cash
more specifically your website data and browsing history so i'm going to show you how to do this on
both safari and chrome to do this in safari head to your iphone settings and then scroll down and
tap on safari then from here scroll down again and this time select clear history and website data
in this pop-up choose the clear history and data option to proceed now warning if you do this
it will remove any cookies and saved logins so do not pass go and do this if you're worried about
losing your logins now if you use something like a password manager or you don't really
care about your logins then that's another thing entirely and i will show you how to
do the exact same thing on chrome so for this we're gonna head to our chrome app
and then we're going to tap on the three dot menu icon in the bottom right and select
history then at the bottom here just select clear browsing data or you could tap the edit option
in the bottom right just to clear individual sites tip number two to fix a slow iphone clear out your
messages listen there could be a lot of junk a lot of media a lot of links living in there
that can be slowing down your iphone so there are a few ways to do this depending on whether or not
you care about saving and exporting your messages and saving and exporting any videos or images
within those messages so if you don't care about your messages or any of the media within that
at all you can go to your messages app and you can delete media from your individual conversations by
selecting the conversation and then tapping on the name or group at the top from here you'll
be able to see a snapshot of all the photos links documents everything included in this conversation
so if you want to delete any or all of the media you could select the see all option
and then tap select in the top right then just select the media you want to delete
and tap delete in the bottom right or you can delete entire conversations from the messages app
simply by swiping left on a conversation and then tapping the red delete option here with the
trash can icon or if you don't want to do this manually you can head to your iphone settings
and then scroll down and select messages then from here let's scroll down again to where it says keep
messages so you can tap on this to change this to one year or 30 days which means it's automatically
going to delete any messages and media contained within those messages that are older than either
one year or 30 days depending on which you select and this will happen automatically
but what if you're like me and you're weird and you want to keep all of your messages
and also all the media contained within those messages before you delete it off of
your iphone well luckily there are ways that you can export and back up all of your messages and
the media contained within those messages for this i use a program called i explorer not sponsored at
all it's just the program i use and i use it to back up and export all of my messages and
the data within it so any photos and videos as well now i typically do this about once a year
i use iexplorer and then i clear out everything off of my iphone so if you actually want to see
a video on how to use iexplorer and how to backup sms messages you can click up here or via the link
in the description below and if you're finding this video valuable please consider giving it a
like and remember to subscribe to my channel for more content like this okay let's move on to tip
number three to make your iphone run faster and that's to clear your iphone storage and any unused
apps that's right clean house or i guess in this case if your iphone was your house you gotta keep
it clean so let's first start with how to check your iphone storage to see how much storage you
have left on iphone let's just head to settings and then we're gonna go to general then iphone
storage tip if this screen is taking a long time to load you've got a lot of storage being used but
once the screen loads you're going to be able to see what's taking up all your space and if you
scroll down further you can see which apps are taking up the most space now this is important
because if there's an app taking up space and potentially slowing down your iphone you can
assess if you even use that app anymore and if you need to actually keep it installed on your device
so if you're scrolling and you do find an app on this list that you want to delete
simply tap on it and then from here you can either delete the app entirely or you can offload the app
this means that it's going to help free up storage but it will keep the documents and data that's
associated with the app now back in iphone storage you're going to have some other options
to enable icloud photos to clear your photo space and again you can enable the auto delete
of old conversations from here too by the way if you don't use icloud well welcome to the club
neither do i you can either use something like iexplorer which i mentioned earlier or you can
use google photos to backup all of your photos from your device which is actually what i do
so if you want to know how to use google photos to back up your device and how exactly it works
i have a ton of videos on that they're all listed in the description below tip number four to fix
a slow iphone try closing unused apps now i know this is a bit controversial to close out our apps
but desperate times call for desperate measures so typically there isn't a need to have to close out
apps because apple does a really good job of kind of putting to sleep any demanding apps that are
running in the background however if your iphone is running slow which is why you're here you may
want to consider completely closing out those apps so if you're on an older iphone with the
home button you're actually just gonna double click the home button to bring up your apps but
if you're on an iphone without a home button simply swipe up from the bottom of your screen
you're gonna feel a little haptic by the way on your thumb or your finger that you're swiping up
with to tell you that it's worked then just let go and you're gonna have your act slider here
now simply swipe right through your opened apps and then all you have to do is swipe up on apps
that you want to quit tip number five the last tip well if you don't count the bonus tip coming
your way next and that's to actually update your ios generally speaking you're going to want to
be running the latest version of ios as long as your device supports it now if you've watched
any of my videos before you know the golden rule prior to running any updates always back
up and sync your iphone before running updates to ios like seriously that's a non-negotiable
and by the way if you're wondering if you should upgrade to ios 15 you can actually check out this
video right here on the best ios 15 features and whether or not you should upgrade to check
for available software updates you're going to head to your settings app and then tap on general
and then select software update here you're either going to be told that your device is up to date or
that a new update is available if you've tried all of these tips and your iphone is still running
slow i do have two little bonus tips for you you could simply try turning your iphone off and
then turning it back on again the good old power down as i call it or if you're really desperate
you could do a complete factory reset but be warned if you do a full reset you're definitely
one of going to have that backup because that way then you can manually pull over any data you want
onto the reset so those are my five tips to speed up a slow iphone and now i want to hear from you
do you think these tips would help speed up an iphone let everyone know in the comments below
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