[mac4theblind] turn it off and put it in your pocket: Fwd: FwdFW: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up
- From: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:01:45 -0400
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Subject: FwdFW: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up
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> From: "Denny Huff" <denny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: September 23, 2013 at 4:05:09 PM EDT
> To: <IDevices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [IDevices] {Disarmed} FW: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How
> to Speed It Up
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>
> Feed: OS X Daily
> Posted on: Monday, September 23, 2013 2:24 PM
> Author: Paul Horowitz
> Subject: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up
>
>
>
> Most users are satisfied with iOS 7 performance, but some iPhone and iPad
> owners have discovered the major update has impacted the speed of their
> devices. If you feel like iOS 7 has made your hardware slower than it was
> before the update, there are some changes you can make that will likely speed
> things up a bit. These tricks will make the biggest difference on older
> device hardware running iOS 7, so if your device feels a bit sluggish after
> updating take a moment to make a few settings adjustments. The first few
> tricks may also boost your battery life too…
>
> Use “Increase Contrast” to Eliminate Transparency & Blur Effects
>
> The widespread transparencies, blurs, and fancy overlays throughout iOS 7
> look fantastic, but on older hardware they can also make devices run slower
> by using up system resources.
>
> Open Settings and go to “General” then to “Accessibility”
> Choose “Increase Contrast” and toggle it to ON
>
>
> This makes the Notification Center, Control Center, folders, and some other
> UI elements a bit less attractive since it takes away the eye candy, removing
> the transparent effects and changing their respective backgrounds to a solid
> color. If you notice any sort of lag with opening the aforementioned
> features, you’ll notice a nice speed boost by turning the contrast on.
>
> Note that some hardware doesn’t support as many transparencies to begin with,
> but you can still toggle the setting to reduce it further.
>
> Turn Off Background App Refresh
>
> This feature lets apps update in the background, and while it’s handy, it
> also slows down older iOS devices and is one of the biggest battery draining
> elements of iOS 7 with devices we’ve used it on… so sorry Background App
> Refresh, you have to go:
>
> From “Settings”, go to “General” and choose “Background App Refresh”
> Switch “Background App Refresh” to the OFF position
>
>
> Turning this off basically means that apps will only refresh once they are
> active, which is the same behavior that existed prior to iOS 7 anyway.
> Toggling this setting has a noticeable impact on iPhone 4 performance in
> particular.
>
> Turn On Motion Reduction
>
> Like most other eye candy, the snazzy motion effects in iOS 7 are pleasant to
> look at but can tax system resources a bit. Thus, turning the feature off
> will reduce the system load and can speed up performance on some hardware:
>
> Back in Settings, head over to “General” and then on to “Accessibility”
> Select “Reduce Motion” and flip the toggle so that it’s ON
>
>
> Note that some older iPhone and iPad models won’t even have this setting
> available to them, because it’s turned OFF by default. If you don’t see the
> “Reduce Motion” setting in your Accessibility panel, it’s because it is not
> supported on your device – likely for performance reasons.
>
> Lose Automatic Updates & Downloads
>
> The reason for turning this off is simple: anything running in the background
> uses system resources to do so, the same theory behind disabling Background
> App Refresh. Turn off Automatic Downloads and Updates for everything:
>
> Go to Settings and then to “iTunes & App Store”
> Choose “Automatic Downloads” and toggle everything to OFF
>
>
> Turning these settings off means you will have to manually update your apps
> through the App Store, and you will also need to manually download songs and
> apps on this particular device if you started downloading the same apps on
> other iOS devices. Three useful features indeed, but ones that aren’t hard to
> live without in the name of better device performance.
>
> Consider a Complete Restore to Factory Defaults
>
> A bit extreme, but sometimes you can boost performance on virtually any
> iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch simply by clearing off everything and resetting
> it to factory default settings. Be sure to back up your device before you do
> this, and then you can restore from a backup when it’s finished, or just
> start with a clean slate.
>
> Admittedly this is a pain in the rear, but there is a long history of
> positive reports ever since the earliest days of iOS (and OS X or Windows for
> that matter…) of wiping everything out and clean installing an operating
> system.
>
> For extreme cases this may resolve some lingering performance issues, but for
> most users we would not recommend this simply because it’s a nuisance.
>
> Update to iOS 7.1 (or Whatever) When It Arrives
>
> iOS 7 is a major update and there are some bugs and performance issues that
> shipped with the first release. This is why we recommended some users hold
> off on the first 7.0 release, since history has long informed us that initial
> releasees of major updates are often buggy and can impact performance in a
> negative way. Whether you’re waiting to update or not, be sure to jump on the
> iOS update releases when they come out, as it will almost certainly contain
> significant improvements and bug fixes, refining the iOS 7 experience
> considerably.
>
>
>
>
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