Your iPhone settings can make a difference when it comes to how fast or slow your phone operates. Some settings can actually drag your phone down and take up crucial resources that result in slower performance speed — which is not what you want from a device that cost so much money.
Fortunately, you can turn things around by adjust just a few settings on your smartphone. By changing these two settings, you can actually help conserve storage space and speed up your phone. Imagine not having to wait for what seems like decades for a web page to load or for files or apps to download — that’s the benefit you can enjoy just from disabling and/or adjusting two iPhone settings.
1. Remove Widgets
When Apple released iOS 14, they added the ability to add widgets directly to your Home Screen, the tech experts at Payette Forward explain. “Widgets are essentially mini apps and they could be constantly running on your iPhone, slowing it down.” In fact, one tech expert from Payette Forward added a Facebook widget as an experiment and the results were “shocking.” That one widget ran in the background and took up a ton more of his battery power over the next 10 days. A slower battery can equal a slower phone.
To delete a widget on your iPhone, press and hold on it and tap “remove” widget.
2. Update Your Apps
App developers often release updates when they find bugs and other issues in their apps. The point of an app update is to enhance that app and your experience using it, but also to help prevent the app from causing performance problems on your device. “Out of date apps can cause software problems and bugs that slow down your iPhone,” according to Payette Forward.
Open the App Store and tap on your account. You can tap “All” to download all app updates at one time or scroll down and update the apps individually. If this seems like a major burden and headache (who wants to check for updates every day?) there’s an iPhone setting that can take some work out of the equation. Go to Settings > App Store > App Updates. Toggle on this switch and your device will automatically update apps when a new update is released.
