The Quick and Dirty on Sluggish iPhones
If…your…phone…seems…sluggish…give it a rest. Like people, phones can’t run forever without needing a timeout. Most users go for weeks without turning off or resetting their phone and then wonder why it’s not as fast as it used to be. Remember those all-nighters you pulled in college? That’s essentially how you’re making your iPhone work.
Simple fix? Turn your device off every couple of days for at least two minutes to clear its system and return to form.
Other ways to speed up your iPhone’s performance:
• Clear Safari’s cache. To do that, go to Settings > Safari > Clear Cache.
• Delete old text messages. Unless you’re a very, very…very sentimental person, you can probably do without that text from a year and a half ago.
• Leave free space. Leaving around 750MB of free space allows the iPhone to enhance performance.
• Check email less often. Doing so every 5 minutes slows down your phone’s performance. Unless email is really important to you try checking every hour.
• Reduce emails shown. Email downloading in the background is the number one cause of sluggish iPhones. Go to settings and set it to show fewer recent messages, which should boost performance.
• Dump your unused apps. Reducing the number of apps on your phone will free up some space and give the device additional power for other things.
• Turn off Bluetooth/WiFi. This can also help improve battery performance.
• Reboot. If your iPhone still isn’t humming along after trying the previous tips try doing a hard restart by holding both the home button and power button for a few seconds.
