The world gets to see new iPhone and iPad every year along with a new version of iOS. In an ideal situation, consumers would want to upgrade to new iPhone and iPad every year but it is not practically possible for most of us. However, we can certainly upgrade to the latest iOS, as Apple is known to support their old hardwares for a few years. If your iPhone or iPad is showing its age and is acting slow, then check out these few tips and tricks to speed up old iPhone or iPad.
- Restart iPhone or iPad: It might be a very basic suggestion but have you tried restarting your iOS device? It will do a soft reboot to the system and your iPhone and iPad will get a speed boost. The devices will not lag anymore. In order to restart the phone, just hold down the power button until the “Slide to power off” control appears on screen, then power off the device and start it again.
- Reduce Graphics Overhead: Graphics is an important factor when it comes to the speed of iPhone and iPad. After the overhaul of iOS couple of years back, Apple has added a lot of graphics motion on iPhone and iPad. Hence, the old devices act a bit slow because of these motions. To speed up your iOS devices, go to Settings > General > Accessibility. Now, turn on Reduce Transparency to remove background wallpaper while accessing Control Centre. Then, you should switch on Reduce Motion to reduce unnecessary animations like the parallax effect on your home screen. This will lead to a lot of performance improvement on your iPhone or iPad.
- Turn off App Refreshes: Background app refreshing takes a lot of computing resources and hence your old iPhone or iPad might become slow in order to keep all your background apps up to date. You can easily disable App Refresh and improve the speed of your iOS device. In order to access the option, just head over to Settings > General > Background App Refresh. Now, you can either disable them all or disable them individually. We would advice you to try individual apps first to check if the performance is improving. In case it does not, then disable them all and check again.
4. Free Up Space: In case you’re using an old iPhone or iPad, it is very likely that you’re having less storage. Sometimes when you’re in touching distance of filling up all your storage, the iOS device becomes slow. So in order to solve this problem, you should always have a healthy amount of free storage. You can achieve this by offloading unused apps or completely uninstall unused apps. You can also delete images and videos that you do not need and clear up browser cache. In order to delete apps, go to Settings > General > iPhone Storage or iPad Storage. Now, you can enable iCloud Photos, empty Recently Deleted Album, Review Personal Videos and Offload Unused Apps.
5. Use Stock Apps: Third-party apps might interfere with the performance of your iPhone or iPad and make them slow. These apps might offer more functionality but Apple’s stock apps will surely perform better. Specially, you should use Apple’s Safari browser instead of Google Chrome or any other mobile browser. Try to use all the stock apps provided by Apple and do not download their third-party counterparts. This will certainly help speed up the old iPhone and iPad.
These are some of the standard options for improving the performance of iPhone and iPad. In case the above-mentioned tips do not work, you should Back Up and Restore your old iPhone or iPad. If that also fails to speed things up, then Reset the device by choosing “Erase All Content and Settings”. If that also fails, then replace the battery of your iPhone or iPad. If all of these tricks do not work, then you should surely take your iPhone or iPad to the Apple service center to get them checked by professionals.
Hope you have liked our tips and tricks on how to speed up old iPhone or iPad. In case you have any other suggestions, then drop them in the comments section below.
