How to Speed Up Your iPhone (8 Simple Tips)

If your iPhone is more than two years old, chances are it is getting slower. But don’t worry. You don’t have to buy a new phone yet. Learn how to speed up your iPhone with these eight simple tips.

Sometimes closing running apps doesn’t always free up those RAM, and it’s not recommended either. To ensure the RAM was properly freed up:

• Hold down the Sleep/Wake button
• When you see “Slide to power off,” release the sleep/wake button
• Hold down the home button until the home screen comes back on

You have cleared up the RAM; your iPhone should feel and run faster. If you’ve recently cleared up the RAM, you may summon SIRI when holding down the home button.

This trick doesn’t apply to the iPhone X since it lacks the home button, any way you won’t need to clear the RAM.

Go ahead and delete all the apps you’re not using and back up your pictures to a cloud storage service.

To delete the apps, go to your iPhone Settings > General > iPhone Storage. You’ll see a list of all the apps installed on your iPhone with the amount of space used. Delete the ones you don’t need.

3. Reduce Transparency and Motion Effects

I know the parallax effect of the icons looks pretty cool, but those effects could potentially slow down your iPhone.

Why overwork your iPhone when it’s already struggling? Let’s turn those effects off by going to Settings > General > Accessibility and toggling on Reduce Motion.

Your iPhone has another awesome feature, which is transparency. It allows you to see a few of your icons in the background when you open a UI element like the control center but requires more processing power.

Go ahead and reduce those transparency effects by going to Settings > General > Accessibility > and toggling on Reduce Transparency.

You should see improvements in your iPhone speed after performing these two actions.

4. Automatic Updates

It’s convenient but might not actually help your slow iPhone. Automatic updates use more memory and could lead to the slow performance of your iPhone.

To prevent the apps from updating themselves, go to Settings > iTunes & App Stores and toggle off Updates. You’ll have to update your apps manually in the App Store app.

5. Clear Your Browsing History

Unlike Android phones, you cannot clear the apps’ cache. You’ll have to completely delete the app and re-install it.

However, you can clear your browsing history since it can take up a lot amount of your iPhone space over time.

Go to Settings > Safari, then tap on Clear History and Website Data. By doing this, you’re removing all the information Safari has stored about the sites you visited.

To do so, go to the App Store App, then tap on Updates and update all the apps that need to be updated.

7. Turn off Background App Refresh

Background App Refresh could seriously slow down your iPhone. Disable it could significantly improve your iPhone speed.

To turn off Background App Refresh, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh. You can either turn it off completely or leave it on and turn it off for specific apps.

Make sure to restore your iPhone as new. By doing so, you’d remove any unwanted data, junk files, and caches that may have slowed down its speed.

If your iPhone is running slow, you should focus on clearing the RAM, turning off background app refresh, and freeing up space, as they usually affect your phone performance. 

Do you have any additional suggestions for making your iPhone run faster? Don’t forget to tell us about it in the comments section below.