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4 Ways To Speed Up Slow iPhone - [Without Using Any Apps]
It’s not your imagination, your iPhone has become slower. Here’s how to speed it up.
Some people aren't into material things, but for those of us that are there are few things more satisfying in life than that "new product" ritual, particularly when it comes to phones. Opening the box, immediately tossing aside anything that isn't the device itself, peeling off the plastic film, and pressing the power button. Breathe in the new smell.
Nowhere is this more true than with a new iPhone, and when you first get hold of a new one there's also the giddy thrill of how quickly it boots, how smooth it is to quickly swipe around the interface, and how fast applications boot up and operate "Jeez this iPhone is blazingly fast," you might dare to think, "so much faster than my old one."
But then something starts to happen. About a month later you think, just maybe, your new iPhone isn’t as fast as it was on the day you opened it. A few months later the increasing slowness becomes more noticeable. And by the time you’re getting ready to buy the next iPhone a year or two down the line you just can’t wait to get rid of this slow piece of garbage.
I’ve heard people say that people who claim their iPhone has become slower over time are just imagining things. It’s all in their heads, they say. But it’s not. iPhones do actually slow down as time goes on. Why—and four ways to speed your iPhone back up—are outlined below.
Clear your RAM
RAM stands for random access memory and it's a thing software on your phone relies on so it can open quickly and perform tasks. When an app is running a certain amount of RAM is allocated to it. While this RAM is allocated to it, other apps can’t use it. If you are using a lot of apps at the same time (meaning several are running in the background) it’s possible almost all your RAM can be used up, slowing down your iPhone, until you quit those apps.
The problem is sometimes apps, even when quit, don’t give up the RAM they were using. This means your iPhone can actually run slower even though you aren’t actively using apps. One way to reset the RAM—that is, force free it from the apps that are using it—is to restart your iPhone. Granted, that can take a while. Thankfully there’s a faster way:
- Press and hold your iPhone’s power button until the “Slide to power off” bar appears. DO NOT POWER OFF YOUR iPhone. Instead….
- Release the power button and now press and hold the home button for five seconds until your home screen comes back on. You RAM will now have been refreshed and your iPhone should be much faster.
Clear the cache from the iPhone’s built-in apps
Another thing that can slow down your iPhone are cache files. These are files that store data so an app can quickly access that data next time without have to go looking for it or creating it again. In theory this will lead to speedier apps. However, large caches, over time, can actually slow down your iPhone.
Not all apps allow you to clear the cache, but Apple has built a secret feature into its pre-installed apps that let you clear their cache. Here’s how:
- Open a preinstalled app. These include apps like App Store, iTunes Store, Music, Podcasts, Game Center, iMessage and Phone.
- In the tab bar (the bar where the app’s buttons are) in any of these apps, tap the same button (it doesn’t matter which) quickly 10 times in a row. The app will now flash white and its cache will be cleared.
Clear your iMessages
Believe it or not, but having a ton of iMessages can massively slow down your phone—in addition to taking up space. At one point I had 8GB of iMessages on my iPhone. You can check how many you have by going to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage. If your iMessages are taking up more than 1GB it might be time to delete them.
To ensure iMessages never become a storage or speed hog in the future, it’s best to set iMessages to auto delete after a set amount of time. To do this:
- Go to Settings > Messages > Keep Messages.
- On the Keep Messages screen choose 30 Days or 1 Year (if you want to keep them for a bit longer). Choosing either one of these options will delete all your older messages past that timeframe—and in the process speed up your iPhone.
Disable animations
Apple introduced some cool motion and animation effects called Parallax back in iOS 7. While they look cool, making your iPhone carry these out each time you open an app drains both the battery and requires your RAM and processors to work harder, slowing down your phone. If you don’t need the eye candy it’s best to disable the animations. To do this:
- Go to Settings > General > Accessibility and toggle the “Reduce Motion” option to ON (green). Now animations will be less pronounced (or gone altogether).
2017年2月23日 星期四
5 Effective Way To Speed Up Your PC
- Find Resource-Hungry Programs
Your PC is running slow because something is using up those resources. If it’s suddenly running slower, a runaway process might be using 99% of your CPU resources, for example. Or, an application might be experiencing a memory leak and using a large amount of memory, causing your PC to swap to disk. Alternately, an application might be using the disk a lot, causing other applications to slow down when they need to load data from or save it to the disk.
To find out, open the Task Manager. You can right-click your taskbar and select the “Task Manager” option or press Ctrl+Shift+Escape to open it. On Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, the new Task Manager provides an upgraded interface that color-codes applications using a lot of resources. Click the “CPU,” “Memory,” and “Disk” headers to sort the list by the applications using the most resources. If any application is using too much resources, you might want to close it normally — if you can’t, select it here and click “End Task” to force it to close.

2. Close System Tray Programs
Many applications tend to run in the system tray, or notification area. These applications often launch at startup and stay running in the background but remain hidden behind the up arrow icon at the bottom-right corner of your screen. Click the up arrow icon near the system tray, right-click any applications you don’t need running in the background, and close them to free up resources.

3.Disable Startup Programs
Better yet, prevent those applications from launching at startup to save memory and CPU cycles, as well as speed up the login process.
On Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, there’s now a startup manager in the Task Manager you can use to manage your startup programs. Right-click the taskbar and select “Task Manager” or press Ctrl+Shift+Escape to launch it. Click over to the Startup tab and disable startup applications you don’t need. Windows will helpfully tell you which applications slow down your startup process the most.


4. Free Up Disk Space
If your hard drive is almost completely full, your computer may run noticeably slower. You want to leave your computer some room to work on your hard drive. Follow our guide to freeing up space on your Windows PC to free up room. You don’t need any third-party software — just running the Disk Cleanup tool included in Windows can help quite a bit.

5. Defragment Your Hard Disk
Defragmenting your hard disk actually shouldn’t be necessary on modern versions of Windows. It’ll automatically defragment mechanical hard drives in the background. Solid-state drives don’t really need traditional defragmentation, although modern versions of Windows will “optimize” them — and that’s fine.
You shouldn’t worry about defragmentation most of the time. However, if you do have a mechanical hard drive and you’ve just put a lot of files on the drive — for example, copying a huge database or gigabytes of PC game files — those files might be defragmented because Windows hasn’t gotten around to defragmenting them yet. In this situation, you might want to open the disk defragmenter tool and perform a scan to see if you need to run a manual defrag program.

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