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- If your iPhone is noticeably slow, there are several things you can do to help it run faster.
- Your iPhone‘s battery might also be starting to fail. You can check for this and replace it if necessary.
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After you’ve had an iPhone for a while and the excitement wears off, it might feel like it runs slower than when you first took it out of the box.
Sometimes, that’s not a feeling – we now know that Apple really does slow down older iPhones to better manage the battery.
But there are a lot of other reasons why your iPhone might be running slower, and you can fix some of them, restoring your phone to its original glory.
Check out the products mentioned in this article:
iPhone XS (From $729 at Apple)
Restart your iPhone
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It might sound like a cliché, but it’s useful advice: If you are experiencing an unusual problem with your phone, try turning it off and then back on again. A misbehaving app can slow down your phone, so follow the instructions in our article, "How to restart and force-restart any iPhone model."
Update your iPhone
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It’s always a good idea to keep your iPhone’s operating system up to date, since iOS updates often include important security patches. But just as importantly, they sometimes include performance tweaks that can make your phone slightly faster or manage the battery a little better.
Here’s how to make sure your iPhone is running the latest version of iOS:
1. Tap the Settings app.
2. Tap "General" and then tap "Software Update."
3. Make sure that "Automatic Updates is set to "On."
4. If there is an update waiting to be installed, you can install it now.
Remove apps that you don’t use often
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Apps can slow down your iPhone in two different ways: If you’re running low on storage, that can slow down your phone, but rarely used apps running in the background can gum up your phone as well.
That’s why it’s a good idea to take a look at the apps you have installed on your phone and get rid of any that you rarely (or never) actually use. See the article, "How to delete apps on an iPhone (and save their data)," for details on how to do this.
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See Also:
- How to mirror your iPhone’s screen onto a Mac computer, using QuickTime or a third-party program
- How to manually change the time and date on your iPhone, or set it to update automatically based on your location
- How to buy more iCloud storage for your iPhone, and what you’ll pay for each plan
SEE ALSO: The best lightning cables you can buy for your iPhone
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