Tips & Tricks: How to Make Your Old Smartphone Faster?

Modern smartphones are made with certain advanced technologies, which hardly present any severe issues within their software, providing better performance and a more reliable interface. However, with time, these technologies tend to degrade their performance, making the smartphone slow and less efficient. So here in this article, we have got you some tips and tricks that can help you make your smartphone faster, extending its lifespan for at least a year. 

How to Make Your Old Smartphone Faster

Smartphones slow down performance due to the regular and heavy usage in our busy lives. Implementing some workarounds to make the performance of our smartphones faster, especially when you don’t want to purchase a new device, will certainly extend their lifespan. In that case, you should follow the tricks, which are mentioned below:

• Clear Cache data:

The first thing you can do is clear your device’s Cached data. The cache data is a bit-sized temporary file that stores several pieces of data from your most used application without having to load and download the content every time. However, over time, the cached data accumulates within your smartphone, slowing your phone down. Thus, it is essential to clean up these cache files regularly so that it can’t fill your device’s space, making your device’s performance smooth. 

In order to clear the cache data, follow the steps mentioned below:

1. Go to the Settings app.
2. Scroll down and select the Apps option.
3. Here, you will get the list of installed apps. Select the app individually.
4. Tap on the Storage option.
5. Finally, click on the Clear cache option and confirm it by tapping OK.
6. Make sure to clear it regularly to free up your device’s space and improve its performance.

•  Uninstall unnecessary apps:

Smartphone applications consume a lot of data, even if they are not in use. They usually run in the background in order to function correctly. Eventually, these apps take up a lot of space on our devices, making your Phone slow and less effective. So it’s better to have a look at your Phone’s app drawer and identify the apps that are unnecessarily on your phone and that you don’t use. Uninstalling these unwanted apps frees up a lot of space and stops the background process, resulting in improved smartphone performance.

• Disable or limit the animations:

Your smartphone requires specific animation permissions for immersive and elegant viewing color. However, these animations adversely affect the performance of your device, making it slow. You can disable or turn off the animations by heading to:

1. The Settings app.
2. Then, select About Phone.
3. And tapping the Build number 7 times.
4. This will enable the Developer options.
5. Here, you can disable the animations.

Apart from this, you need to adjust the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and the Animator duration scale to speed up the interface performance. Select the Animation off option, or you can reduce the scale.  

• Update your System Software:

Always ensure to keep your smartphone’s software up to date, as this will ensure that you have the latest customizations, optimizations and bug fixes. Software updates bring several new features and enhancements to your device, which improve the performance of your smartphone. 

To check for the system software updates, 

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Click on the Software update option.
3. If the latest software update is available, tap on it.
4. Finally, select the Download & install option.

• Use lighter apps:

Avoid using applications that consume more memory and need more system resources. Instead, opt for those apps that take less memory and require a few system resources. It would help if you considered replacing resource-intensive apps with lightweight counterparts to enhance the overall performance of your Phone.

• Disable background data:

Most smartphone applications continue to run in the background even if you are not using them, accumulating a lot of space on your device. It’s better to disable the background data to improve your phone’s speed and performance. 

To disable the background data:

1. Go to the Settings app.
2. Then select Apps.
3. Choose the app whose background data you want to disable.
4. Now tap on the Mobile data.
5. And then Disable the Background data for the selected apps.

• Limit your Widgets and Live Wallpapers:

We usually set Widgets and live wallpapers so that our Phone’s display looks visually appealing, nevertheless, they can create the wrong impact on the performance of our smartphone. In order to reduce resource consumption and improve your smartphone’s speed, you must remove unwanted Widgets from your device’s home screen and switch from live wallpapers to static ones. 

• Restart your smartphone regularly:

Restarting your Phone is one of the best solutions, as it removes all the temporary glitches and specific corrupted files which is preventing your device from functioning correctly. Just restart your Phone regularly or at least once a week in order to keep the machine running smoothly and speed up the performance. 

• Factory reset as a last resort:

If none of the above-listed tricks is working in your favour, then the last option left for you is performing a factory reset and giving your smartphone a fresh start. After completing a factory reset process you need to set up your smartphone again, which you have done when you first brought your Phone. However, do note that the factory reset process will erase all the data on your Phone, so it is highly recommended to back up all the data including your important files, documents and even contacts safely on your Google Account.

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