Speed ​​up your older iPhone with these simple tips and tricks

One of the great attractions of Apple’s iPhone is its intuitive user experience – it just works. The iPhone often outperforms the competition, but every device starts to slow down with age. New iOS updates can be a double-edged sword, sometimes making older iPhone models even slower. It can be frustrating to watch your once-new, lightning-fast iPhone slow down. Instead, try our tips below to breathe new life into it.

Tweak transparency and motion settings

Visual effects may look nice, but there’s a processing overhead. You can speed up your phone a bit by turning them off or reducing them.

Step 1: Go to Settings > Accessibility.

Step 2: Choose display and text size.

Step 3: Switch reduce transparency to On.

Step 4: Another method involves settings > Accessibility > movement and turn on reduce movement.

Switch your handset off and on again

This simple guide is hardware support’s tried and true opening game for a reason. Turning devices off and on again can often solve problems and increase performance.

Step 1: Hold down the sleeping/awake button and slide the resulting switch to turn off your device.

Step 2: When you’re done, hold down the sleeping/awake Press again until the Apple logo appears.

Uninstall unused apps

Check all apps and games on your iPhone and uninstall anything you don’t use regularly. Be ruthless. They take up disk space and may consume resources by running and updating in the background.

You can delete apps on iPhone by tapping and holding until all apps go to jiggle mode, or just tap and hold on the app icon you want to delete and remove it from the pop-up menu by you choose Delete application.

Update to the latest iOS

Apple regularly releases newer versions of iOS, not only to bring new features and better security, but also to improve overall performance. Check if an iOS update is available and update accordingly.

Step 1: You can do this by going to settings > General > software update.

Step 2: Your iPhone will check for an update and prompt you to do so Download and install if one is available.

Turn off Siri

Siri, Apple’s personal assistant, can be handy, but there are a few features you might want to disable to improve performance.

Step 1: Siri can automatically suggest resources when you search in iOS 9 and later, but this feature can slow down your iPhone. To turn it off, go to settings > Siri and search.

Step 2: If you have an iPhone 6S or later, you can always say “Hey Siri” to summon Siri. You can disable this feature via settings > Siri and search and turn off Listen for “Hey Siri.”. Then tap Turn off Siri Button.

Disable automatic downloads

If your iPhone is the only device associated with your Apple ID, you might want to turn that on — or maybe it’s not even needed.

If you own other Apple devices, you may automatically download new apps and content purchases made on another device that you don’t want on your iPhone.

Either way, to improve your iPhone’s performance, you can kill automatic background processes.

Step 1: Go to settings > app storeto find a section labeled Automatic Downloads.

Step 2: Switch off Automatic Downloads.

Use Apple’s default apps

Apple’s apps work most efficiently with the iPhone. They are set as the default settings for most important functions such as email, navigation and web browsing. If you want the smoothest, fastest performance, stick with them.

Disable background app updates

Some apps are constantly ticking in the background, syncing data and updating content. This activity can slow things down and drastically reduce battery life.

Contrary to popular belief, closing all apps is not the solution.

Go to settings > General > *Background app update and turn it off completely or turn it off for selected apps.

The only difference is that these apps sync when you launch them instead of constantly syncing in the background.

Throw away old files

Whether it’s a video file, a securely backed up photo, an old text message, or cached data, old files that you no longer need are a useless drain on resources.

Some apps may be worth uninstalling and then reinstalling to get rid of cached data.

Step 1: Go to settings > General > iPhone storage and you can see what is taking up the most space.

Step 2: Delete any app you don’t need by tapping and then selecting Delete application.

clear browser history

One area where getting rid of unnecessary files is relatively easy is in Safari. This may slow browsing at first as your iPhone has to cache websites you revisit, but there will likely be a net performance gain in clearing out the junk.

Go to settings > safari > Clear history and website data.

Reset your iPhone

We recommend resetting your handset when troubleshooting to erase some old data, at the cost of re-entering certain passwords and other settings. Read our guide on how to factory reset an iPhone or reset an iPhone for more information.

A general reset will likely result in improved performance – just make sure you back up important files first.

Go to settings > General > Transfer or reset iPhone > Reset to default.

A more drastic approach is to do a full factory reset via settings > General > *Reset > Erase all content and settings.

Put your iPhone in low data mode

Low data mode is a feature of iOS 13 and later and limits network usage in the background. If this setting is enabled, automatic updates and background tasks will be paused.

Step 1: Start with settings > cellular.

Step 2: Then go Cellular Data Options > Low data mode and switch Low data mode switch to On.

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