iOS performance. A foolproof way to improve iPhone performance has been revealed.
It's just magic!
Could, for example, the iPhone 5s be faster in any way? You will doubt it, but it really can be so. In this instruction, we talked about a fail-safe way to improve the performance of any iPhone model, so effectively that in one very important parameter the smartphone will begin to outstrip even the iPhone 8 Plus in terms of operating speed. Note that the method we described is known to few and for most users it will be useful.
Attention! The method involves refusing to use Siri.
It is worth understanding that it is impossible to make the iPhone 5s or any other Apple smartphone of previous generations identical to the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in terms of pure operating speed. But at one point, older iPhones may catch up with the latest models.
Important! This method is especially effective on an iPhone running iOS 11, which currently does not offer excellent performance.
What is the essence of the method
The point of the method presented in these instructions is to powerfully speed up the execution of all actions related to the “Home” button. As we noted earlier, as a result of using the method, Siri will be disabled on the iPhone, so the Home button will remain assigned two main functions:
- closing applications,
- Opening the menu for switching between applications.
Both of these actions will be greatly accelerated. iPhone 5s, Apple's oldest smartphone with iOS 11, performs faster than iPhone 8 Plus. But let's not be unfounded.
Opening the multitasking menu on iPhone 5s
Opening the multitasking menu on iPhone 8 Plus
We'd like to emphasize that we didn't speed up the video - the Home button becomes incredibly fast as a result of changing a few iOS settings. So what should you do?
How to speed up any iPhone
Step 1. Go to menu " Settings» → « Basic» → « Universal Access».
Step 2. Select the section " Quick commands"at the very bottom of the page and uncheck all the boxes.
Step 3. Return to the previous menu and select the " Home».
Step 4: Change the following settings:
- In the section " Velocity"check the box" Default».
- In the section " Press and hold to pronounce" select " Off».
Ready! You can test the speed of actions associated with the Home button. According to our measurements, exiting applications on the same iPhone 5s becomes as fast as on the iPhone 8 Plus. But launching the menu for switching between applications is even faster! What's most interesting is this method is also relevant for iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, on which actions on the Home button can be made even faster.
It doesn't matter what kind of iPhone you use: the latest iPhone 7 or an earlier model, you definitely won't refuse to extend your smartphone's battery life and increase the speed of iOS. Sooner or later this becomes relevant for any device. This article contains only proven methods that will really help you improve the autonomy and performance of your device. So let's get started.
1. Clear RAM
You can speed up your iPhone by clearing the RAM in a matter of seconds. And this method does not require tedious rebooting of the smartphone.
To clear memory you need:
- Hold the power button until the slider to turn off the device appears at the top of the screen.
- Release the Power button and press the Home button for five seconds until the home screen appears.
That's it! Now the RAM of the iPhone and iPad is in perfect order.
2. Clear Apple App Cache
Cache overflow can affect iPhone performance. There is one way to solve the problem, which became known only recently.
Cache clearing method works in apps App Store, iTunes Store, Podcasts and some others. You need to quickly perform 10 taps on any button on the bottom panel. If you did everything correctly, the screen will go blank for a moment, and then you will be taken to the application, cleared of unnecessary data.
3. Automatically clear messages after 30 days
You might be surprised by the amount of space that is used to store your messages. To find out this information, go to Settings -> General -> Storage & iCloud -> Manage and look at the size of the Messages application. If, in addition to text, you exchange photos and videos, then the size of the occupied memory can easily reach 5 or 10 GB.
An archive of your conversations can slow down not only Messages, but the iPhone itself as a whole. To fix this, go to Settings -> Messages -> Leave Messages and then change the Lifetime setting to 30 days or 1 year. Believe me, it's worth it.
4. Disable animation
Application launch and transition animations look great, but they require a lot of resources and affect the performance and battery life of your device. Try disabling it by going to Settings -> General -> Accessibility. Here you need to activate the “reduce motion” option.
You will notice the increase in iPhone speed with the naked eye.
5. “Wi-Fi Help”
This method is designed to increase the time battery life devices, although it is quite controversial.
The new Wi-Fi Assist option improves your smartphone's performance and battery life by using cellular data if your Wi-Fi connection is unstable. But be careful if your tariff plan small traffic limit.
To enable this feature, go to Settings -> Cellular connection and turn on the Wi-Fi Assist switch.
6. Use power saving mode
Everyone noticed the system's advice to turn on the power saving mode when the battery level dropped to 20 and 10%. In fact, this option can be activated at any time, significantly extending the operating time.
The power saving mode switch is located in the Settings -> Battery menu. The system will stop receiving email, app activity in the background, and so on.
7. Configure location settings
Some apps need to continuously track your location even when you're not using them. But many of them are not used too often, and significantly reduce the operating time of the iPhone.
By going to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services. Here you will see a list of all applications that have access to location sensors. If you see the “Always” option next to the program name, then think about whether it needs constant access to your geolocation? If not, be sure to enable the “When used” or “Never” option.
8. Stop iPhone from tracking you
By default, the iPhone tracks the owner's every step, keeping records of all places visited.
If you want to disable this tracking, go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services. Scroll down the screen until you see the System Services section, where you need to turn off the Frequently Visited Places option.
9. Disable Product Improvement Features
It's very kind of you to provide information to Apple to improve their products, but such kindness will come at the cost of battery life and private data.
In the Settings -> Privacy menu, in the Diagnostics and Usage section, disable sending data to Apple. Then go to Settings -> Privacy -> Location Services -> System Services and turn off the Diagnostics and Usage, Popular Nearby, Improve Maps, and Routing and Traffic options. In this section, you can deactivate other functions that you think are wasting battery power.
10. Set up background content refresh
Did you know that you will continue to receive notifications even if you turn off the option to update app content? Many people think that by turning off this function once, they will thereby extend their battery life. Actually this is not true.
Go to Settings -> General -> Content Update and additionally disable the update option for each application. This will cause some apps to load information a fraction of a second slower, but your iPhone's battery will thank you for it.
On old gadgets, and collected statistics for each of the smartphones and tablets that will receive the update. As statistics have shown, even the majority of users of the old iPhone 4s and iPad 2 felt an increase in speed, which was confirmed by synthetic tests. However, more and more reports of system stutters and slow operation are appearing on the Internet. How to correct the situation if everything is bad - we will tell you in this article.
In truth, these tips are almost entirely carried over from tips for improving iOS 8 performance, with one major difference.
Disable transparency and animation
These beauties, which have accompanied owners of iOS devices since the seventh iteration, may be appropriate on productive gadgets of the line, but on “oldies” that are reaching their last update cycle, they must be turned off.
So, in the search for settings, we find the “Increase Contrast” section and move the “Reduce Transparency” slider to the on position. Let’s go back a step and in the “Reduce Motion” section, turn on the switch of the same name.
What do we get as a result? In the notification shade, in the search and quick settings section, the transparent background becomes a single color. In addition, applications are minimized with more concise animation, which I like even more than the standard one. My iPhone 5 started working noticeably faster.
Disable automatic update of application content
This point is mandatory when the battery in your gadget is “no longer the same” and you value every hour of its battery life. Needless to say, when the system performs an update, old smartphones and tablets with a small amount RAM may noticeably “strain” and slow down a little. When you disable the function, you lose very little - articles from Pocket, Any.Do tasks, notes, data from instant messengers and all those programs that you allowed to pull information in the background will be loaded when you open them.
Disabling this option is very simple: in the settings, find “Content Update” and set the slider to inactive.
Turn off Siri suggestions
This is the most painful part of this guide, because native search assistant suggestions for Spotlight are one of the main innovations in iOS 9. It's up to you to decide whether this action is worth it, and I highly recommend comparing the differences in performance before making any decision. However, if you still decide to do this, find “Spotlight Search” and turn off the “Siri Suggestions” switch.
Apple uses high-performance components to make iPhone and iPad perform unmatched. However, software decorations, animation and other optional features operating system negatively affect work speed mobile devices. First of all, this applies to not the most top-end gadgets.
You can solve the problem by disabling the most resource-intensive functions. Using standard settings operating system, you can improve the performance of older iPhone and iPad models.
Disable Spotlight Search
In 2009, manna from heaven fell on the heads of iPhone users. The released third version of iPhone OS gave Apple phones hundreds of new features. Then for the first time in Apple smartphones such now familiar things as “cut-copy-paste”, MMS and the universal search engine Spotlight appeared.
You can get to the latter by swiping from top to bottom on any page of the home screen. Spotlight is nothing more than a global search for all content: contacts, mail, SMS, applications, music, calendar, and its main advantages are the instantaneity and clarity of the result. The problem is that Spotlight continuously indexes the content of mobile devices to keep up with all the changes in the OS. Disabling this feature can improve the performance of your iPhone and iPad. Go to Settings -> General -> Spotlight Search and uncheck all the boxes.
Disable background app updates
Apps in iOS 8 can load information in the background. The function is very useful, but it consumes battery power and additionally loads processor power. Go to Settings -> General -> Content Update and disable the use of services in the background. You can disable the feature completely or limit its use for certain applications.
Disable parallax and frosted glass effect
Apple must have spent a lot of time creating a parallax effect for the wallpaper that creates a 3D effect. Everything looks nice, but other than the extra load on the processor, this feature is no good for anything else. Therefore, when setting the wallpaper in iOS 8, turn the “Perspective” switch to the Off position.
The transparency effect gives the Apple software shell a special chic. Many elements of iOS 8 are made with a three-dimensional effect - layers above the main interface. At the same time, everything below becomes blurry, as if behind frosted glass. This effect is observed everywhere in the OS, including the Action Center, Control Center and the top bar with the clock. You can disable UI translucency by going to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Increase Contrast. By default, the Reduce Transparency switch is set to Off. With the effect disabled, it works visually faster, especially on not the newest models.
Disable animation
Apple has long created a beautiful pseudo-3D effect for the “flat” iOS interface: menus, icons, notifications that slightly change their appearance when the device is tilted. The function is quite insignificant, but it consumes CPU time. Therefore, go to Settings -> General -> Universal Access and activate the “Reduce Motion” item.
Free up memory space
It's worth cleaning up your iPhone and iPad from time to time. Imagine that you are working somewhere in an office and after a while you notice that your desk is gradually starting to become cluttered with unnecessary documents and papers. So what are you doing? That's right, you will restore cleanliness and order to free more space and work more efficiently. The same thing happens in iOS. Smartphones and tablets, like desktop computers, should also be kept clean and tidy.
Find list installed programs, sorted by the size of the data they occupy, can be found in the operating system settings. To do this, open the Basic section and go to the Statistics menu. iOS 8 will show the size of downloaded programs and allow you to quickly free up memory on your device.
Last time, we examined in detail the methods that will help you download videos from YouTube to your iPhone. This instruction is located. Today we will give you sufficient quantity tips on how to speed up the iPad 2 and other versions of tablet smartphones from Apple. This instruction will help you improve the performance of previous versions of iPad, on completely new firmware, such as iOS10. One of the criteria for the slow operation of iPads is precisely the software, which requires improvement.
If you have old model iPad, perhaps it's 1,2,3 or 4 series, or iPad Mini - that is large share the likelihood that the performance of these devices does not suit you, as it was before. Even though iOS is one of the modern mobile operating systems that requires minimal maintenance, it still hampers the performance of many devices over time. Sometimes, even relatively new iPad models slow down significantly in performing everyday tasks. You might find it useful universal instructions for restoring an iPhone or iPad from a backup. You can read it.
There is quite large number various methods to speed up the performance of older models. So, the iPad 2 is slow, what should I do? Let's get started:
The first trick is to ensure that you leave in the device memory only those applications that you use constantly. Remove applications and games that you installed once and completely forgot about them.
Important to know! Please note that we are talking exclusively about deleting applications and games from the device, and not about closing them (unloading them from memory) by swiping from the multitasking panel. In this case, unloading the application from memory will not have any effect on the performance of the device. The theory that closing several applications will free up memory and speed up your iPad or iPhone is a myth. Users who understand how multitasking works are well aware of how iOS manages memory.
But deleting applications and games forever from the device’s memory will significantly speed up the work of, for example, iPad 2.
On the other hand, if you want to remove several applications, there is an easier way. Go to “Settings” - “General” - “iCloud”. Go to the "Manage backups" section and delete the contents of all applications and games that take up a lot of space. For example, podcasts or movies are one of the main reasons why previous generations of iPads are slow.
After you've cleaned your iPad, you need to restart it. Rebooting the device will allow you to “refresh” its memory and start working “from scratch”.
Hold down the device's ON/OFF button until a window appears prompting you to turn off the device. Then press and hold the button again to turn on the tablet.
Now that you have cleared out the garbage, your iPad should already be running much faster, but if you are using previous versions of tablets, the question of “How to speed up iPad 2” remains relevant.
In order to achieve the most significant performance gains, you should disable application updates in the settings. Start by turning off app and game updates running in the background. Go to “Settings” - “General” - “Off”. Background update of applications and games" or "Settings" - "iTunes Store, Appstore" and switch the curtain from active to passive.
Keep in mind: upgrading to a newer iOS operating system can be a "pig in a poke" because in terms of performance it may increase or remain the same. Developers add and introduce new features that can actually significantly slow down the device, but, as a rule, such errors are in the code Apple company It doesn’t leave it for a long time and fixes them quite quickly. In any case, if your iPad is running slowly despite following the steps in the previous tips, it’s worth trying to update your device to a newer operating system.
Go to "Settings" - "General" - "Update" software" Check availability of new firmware versions.
The Safari browser is one of the few applications that significantly affects the performance of the device. If your iPad 2 is running slowly, this may be due to the loaded cache memory, which contains a large amount of data from the Safari browser. We advise you to clear the cache: “Settings” - “General” - “Safari”. Click on "Clear history and website data."
This should speed up the Safari interface, but on the other hand it will take much longer to load the site page.
Pop-up windows or informational messages from applications and games also significantly affect system performance in previous iPad 2 and mini models. To resolve this issue, you should turn off notifications for all applications or for those that are not important. To do this, go to “Settings” - “Notifications”.
The device location function works in the background from the start of iOS download. This has a big impact on the battery life and performance of the iPad. But, if you disable this function, you will lose the ability to take location-referenced photos; you will be unable to use the navigator and other resources that require GPS enabled on the device for high-quality and reliable operation. To disable automatic detection location, go to “Settings” - “Privacy” - “Location Services”. Set the slider to inactive.
You can feel the performance gain after disabling standard search on your smartphone or tablet. Spotlight is a pretty handy feature if you want to find something very quickly on your iPad. To disable search, go to “Settings” - “General” - “Spotlight”.
My iPad 2 is slow, what should I do? The last hope if the previous steps did not help you understand this issue. Let's try to disable visual effects and unnecessary animation. To do this, go to “Settings” - “General” - “Universal Access”. Turn on the Reduce Motion feature.
Our instructions are suitable for devices such as the iPad mini; if it begins to work slowly or slow down, we ask you to carefully read all the tips.
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Details Created: February 20, 2017 Updated: December 05, 2017
