iPhone Experts Say You Should Never Download These 3 Social Media Apps If You Want A Faster iPhone: TikTok, More

Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok

You can make an anti-social media argument for every social media app under the sun, from Facebook to X. But by just focusing on Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, you’ll be able to see how these three apps are extremely taxing on your device.

All three of these apps load and cache high-resolution images and videos. The apps often save large files, and if you don’t have enough storage on your device as it is, you can run out of storage and your phone can run very slowly because of this.

Animations and Graphics

The complex and intense animations and graphics on Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok, as well as any one of these components that includes video, slows down devices.

Background Activity and Notifications

Social media apps are constantly running in the background to refresh content and data. They also check for new messages and push notifications, all of which use CPU cycles and RAM and can lead to slower performance.

If you are not ready to delete these apps from your phone, it’s important to routinely delete old files (especially images and videos) that your phone is storing from these apps. Taking as many steps as possible to reduce the storage space these apps consume can help.