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15th Mar 2016

There’s Finally An Easy Way To Speed Up Your iPhone

YES.

Cathy Donohue

iPhones are great but what isn’t great is when your device slows down completely and takes a ridiculous amount of time to do the simplest thing.

However, 9to5Mac has alerted us to a solution which has been getting a great reaction from other iPhone fans.

A Reddit user has shared a way to disable iPhone animations and as they use a lot of power, turning them off should ensure your handset runs much quicker.

The below YouTube video talks through the entire process and we’ve also outlined the steps below.

  • Go to Settings, General, Accessibility, Assistive Touch
  • Next step is to drag the ‘Assistive Touch’ button into the bottom right-hand corner
  • Back at the Home screen, swipe down to access ‘Spotlight’
  • This is the tricky bit (and it could take a few tries before it works) – when the ‘Assistive Touch’ button is directly above the keyboard, tap the screen to dismiss Spotlight
  • You should notice that your iPhone immediately starts to run quicke
  • YAAAAAAY