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Lagging, Buffering iPhone? Tech Experts Offer 3 Quick Fixes To Make Your Device Run Smoother & Faster

February 12, 2024 by Lisa Cupido
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Your iPhone is slow. Your iPhone is SO slow that everything you try to do on it feels like it takes hours to complete. Maybe it takes forever to load websites or downloads files and apps. Perhaps every time you charge your device, you check back 20 minutes later to find the battery has barely been replenished. 

What could the issue be, you may be wondering. There are a number of reasons why your phone could be lagging behind, but all you want at this moment is fast solutions. We’ve got three of them. If your iPhone is lagging, buffering, and just taking forever and a day to do anything. these three fixes can help. 

Close Frozen Apps

One reason why your phone could be slow is because you are running apps that are essentially frozen. Once this happens, it can stall every other function on your iPhone. The solution is simple: close out all of these frozen apps. Better still: close the apps and restart your phone. 

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Clear Safari Cookies and Data

 


Your Safari browser could be storing a ton of information and you never spent time clearing it, all of that data can slow down your phone and cause it to lag. Clear Safari cookies and data by going to Settings > Safari > Clear History and Website Data. 

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Turn Off Background App Refresh 

 


Background App Refresh is a unique setting that ensures every time you open an app, it is updated and ready to provide new, fresh content without making you wait. It’s a great setting, but it’s also taxing on your phone’s battery because it requires so much from your device. You can turn off this setting and save battery power, while speeding up your phone, by heading to Settings > General > Background App Refresh. Turn the setting off.

 


You don’t have to settle for a slow phone that frustrates you. These three quick fixes can help get it up to speed. 

Author:

Lisa Fogarty is a lifestyle writer and reporter based in New York who covers health, wellness, relationships, sex, beauty, and parenting.

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