5 Simple Ways To Give Your Old Smartphone A Speed Boost

A slow #smartphone is always a source of deep frustration and hustle, and it’s common when you’ve had the same smartphone for a few years. You will always notice the device becoming slower over time and before you break the wallet for a new
smartphone, there are a number of things you can do
to give your old handset a speed boost.
While there is no hard and fast solution to fixing a
slow phone, we hope that following these steps will
help make your phone run as quickly and efficiently
as possible.
1. Clear cached data
The cache is your phone’s storage system that gives
the device data from the previous usage before
carrying out an action. When a cache is full, the
device will have to scan its entire memory for the
required data, which can be a big drain on loading
times.
Simply clearing space in a phone’s cache will have a
noticeable impact on the time it takes to open web
pages, run apps and complete actions.
To clear the cache on your iPhone, go to
Settings>Safari>Clear History and Website Data and
confirm the Clear History & Data.
On an Android, clear your cache by going to
Settings>Storage>Other Apps. Find the app you want
to clear, click on it and select Clear Cache.
2. Update to the latest operating system
If your phone is using an old operating system, it can
slow your device down. Carrying out regular
recommended updates will ensure that your device
will always be running the most up to date browser,
noticeably improving your browsing experience. In
May, we reported about TECNO Spark 3 Pro would
be among the list of eligible devices that will be able
to get the newest Android updates for Android Q.
On iPhone to check for updates, navigate to
Settings>General>Software Updates If there are any
updates, it will automatically install and restart your
phone.
On an Android phone, go to Settings>About
Device>System Updates and allow the updates to
install if updates are available.
3. Replace the battery
Replacing your battery can help to give your old
smartphone a speed boost. Modern phone batteries
do much more than just powering the handset, as
they are integral to how a phone operates. Because
of this, an old or inefficient battery can cause
performance issues and should be replaced to ensure
the handset runs as efficiently as possible.
For Tecno, Infinix and itel users, your battery can be
updated when you visit Carl Care centre at Kampala
Road or visiting any certified outlet for the brand
4. Manage your apps
If your apps aren’t managed effectively, they can
drain your phone’s performance. Deleting any unused
apps will help to free up memory, which in turn
improves your handset’s processing power.
This is because when apps update, the previous
version is not deleted but overwritten by the new
update, and over time this can increase the amount
of memory taken up by the app.
So it’s better you keep only those apps you actively
use and ditch the others that just sit around filling up
your storage. Most recent Android phones come with
the feature that allows you to freeze and unfreeze
unused apps which can be pretty much useful to
speed boost the phone performance, especially when
set it to automatically do so.
5. Performance-enhancing apps
There are several apps you can download to help
improve your phone’s performance. Downloading a
task manager app, for example, can help give you
control over which apps are activated as part of the
bootup process every time you turn your phone on.
Limiting the number of apps that are activated upon
starting up will shorten the amount of time it takes
your device to ‘wake up’ once you’ve switched it on.
You can also find apps that help to clear cache space,
as mentioned above.
6. Use Lightweight Apps on Android
Android Go apps are specially designed for low-end
devices and when your old smartphone starts
misbehaving, the quickest way to enhance
performance is to switch allegiance to the optimized
version of apps that have been proven to run well in
such circumstances. You can check out the list of top
6 lightweight apps you can use on Android and the
new lightweight Google Go search app which was
made available for global downloads yesterday.

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