Over time, the iPhone may be a little slower than it was in the first days. Here are some tips that will make your iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus faster than ever.
The iPhone, especially the iPhone X, 8 and 8 Plus, is one of the best smartphones on the market in terms of performance and user experience. However, as with any other device, its performance decreases over time and the system slows down. This can be due to an infinity of reasons: obsolete software, shortage of memory, hardware failures, lack of resources, etc.
Be that as it may, in this article we will recommend a series of tips to accelerate the performance of your iPhone (any model) so that it will be the same as before.
Tips to accelerate the performance of your iPhone
As we know, every iPhone will always get slower with time, even if your new iPhone X / 8. That’s why we offer you this guide.
Here are some basic tips to make your iPhone X / 8 always work fast and they are suitable for all iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. It contains some tips and also some tools that allow you to improve the performance of your iPhone X / 8/7 in a new way.
Tip: Before following the tips below to speed up your device, you’d better save your iPhone.
Check the network connection
Your iPhone runs slowly when there is a bad internet connection on your device. In this situation, Safari, App Store, or other apps cannot easily download caches, images, or other files.
Therefore, make sure your iPhone X, 8 or 8 Plus is connected to a stable Internet, no matter whether Wi-Fi or cellular network. You can connect to another Wi-Fi connection and try again. Or you can reset the network settings by going to Settings> General> Reset on your device, to refresh all Wi-Fi, VPN and default cellular settings.
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Animations
If you see that your iPhone seems slower than normal, or the animations are somewhat slowed, you can disable the animations of the user interface. To do this, go to Settings> General> Accessibility and activate the option “Reduce movement”.
It is important, no, IMPERATIVE, that you regularly update the software on your iPhone so that it has the latest version of iOS installed on your system. Maybe you can think that updating can slow down your phone but that’s just an urban myth. It used to happen with the iPhone of years ago, but now things are different. The latest versions of iOS optimize, accelerate and improve the performance and stability of the system, in addition to adding layers of protection to the security of iOS.
Speed up iPhone X / 8/7/6/5/4 by freeing up storage space
The space problem can slow down your new iPhone X / 8 because your iPhone will be filled with various applications and media files over time. If there is not enough space on your iPhone, you can not download the image, applications, songs and even a few small files. If you experience this problem, you may need to check your storage usage and remove some unnecessary files from your device.
Processes in the background
The truth is that iOS is a really effective and powerful system when it comes to managing processes in the background. But sometimes open applications can seriously affect the performance of your iPhone. You can prevent certain apps from updating in the background in Settings> General> Background update.
Make Apps compatible with iOS
If only several applications are running slowly on your iPhone X / 8, one of the reasons may be that these applications are not compatible with your iOS operating system. Especially for iOS 11, which does not support 32-bit applications. To resolve this problem, you can reinstall these applications or update them to the latest version. If that does not work, you can wait for the next iOS update to fix the bugs in your current operating system.
Clean the cache on iPhone
Clearing the cache and deleting the history can improve performance and speed up your iPhone. The App Store temporarily retains storage data that can slow down the iPhone. The operation is simple: just go to the App Store and then click ten times in a row on one of the five menu buttons at the bottom of the application. The screen then turns white for a moment before returning to the application’s home. The cache of the application is cleared. The iPhone should now be faster.
Speed up iPhone X / 8 with third-party software
Some professional tools will help you scan and delete unnecessary files and caches that slow down your iPhone 8 in just a few clicks. For example, PhoneClean, the first application that has been developed for the cleaning of unnecessary files iOS 11/10, allows you to delete files from the system to improve the performance of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, including the residuals of apps, iOS notifications, Active Apps and more.
Remove heavy applications
It’s time to get rid of all those games you no longer play. The more apps you store, the slower your iPhone will be. If you want to know the percentage of space occupied by each application, go to Settings, then General, then Usage.
Delete old photos
Eliminating unnecessary documents can help boost the performance of your device. Photos and videos often take up a lot of space. If you still have several hundred photos on your phone, it’s time to transfer them to your computer, and sync them to iPhoto or iCloud so you do not lose them.
How is your iPhone doing now?
If you have completed each and every one of the steps that we have recommended to you in the configuration of your terminal surely your iPhone has much better performance now. Otherwise, we recommend restarting your device, and if it is a very serious case, you can opt for a factory reset.
Also, please see how to hard reset to wipe data on iPhone X, iPhone 8 and 8 Plus