Tech Experts Say You Should Delete These 6 Apps Right Now Because They’re Making Your Phone So Much Slower
May 3, 2024 by Lisa Cupido
If your phone is slow as a snail, your apps may be to blame. We don’t always think of our apps as capable of causing much mischief, and if something goes awry with our iPhones, we tend to believe it’s a hardware problem. You may even take your phone to the Apple Store and ask a Genius Bar technician to have a look at it before finding out the phone itself is totally fine — it’s the apps you’ve downloaded that are causing a strain on your device.
When you can’t take it anymore and need to speed your phone up, try deleting these six apps that could be causing mayhem. Doing so may just result in a quicker, more efficient iPhone.
FacebookBlame Facebook’s constantly streaming videos for one of the major reasons why the app is slowing down your phone. Resource-intensive apps are what they sound like — they do a lot. And doing the most means taking away from your phone’s battery power. You can minimize the damage by deleting the Facebook app altogether or, at the very least, heading to the Facebook app > Settings & Privacy > Settings > Preferences > Media and doing the following: lower the video quality and turn off autoplay so that you have to manually choose to play a video to see its content.