Users owning older iPhone like iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 may be experiencing slow performance of iOS 8.4 on their devices. However, worry not as here we will discuss some of methods and tweaks to restore your old gadget speed on latest Apple software.
These tips can be applied to latest iPhones like iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S to make them lightening fast without compromising the performance.
How to Speed Up Slow iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 Running on iOS 8.4
Disable the Fancy Effects
While Apple has added some good fancy effects like Parallax effects in iOS 7 and kept them in iOS 8.4 too, but you know this is very memory consuming. Fortunately, iOS 8.4 does have option to allow user disable the Parallax effects.
For that, go to Settings –> General –> Accessibility and there go to Reduce Motion option and toggle it to turn it ON. This way, you can disable the parallax effect on your iPhone 4S or iPhone 5.
Turn Off Spotlight Search
Although it’s a very useful feature but you have to admit that its very memory hungry and incase you use to often, its better to de-activate or turn off spotlight feature to spare some memory on iPhone 4S for iOS 8.4.
To turn off Spotlight search, once again launch Settings app and go to General –> Spotlight Search from where you can easily de-activate this feature.
Remove Un-wanted Apps
If you have installed bunch of apps and games on your iPhone 4S running on iOS 8.4, then you may experience you iPhone to be lagging a lot. While too many apps can even slow down latest iPhone 6 Plus on iOS 8.4, so what’s iPhone 4S?
That’s why we recommend to only keep useful apps that you use of routine basis on your iPhone 4S because your iPhone is too old and to meet iOS 8.4 memory requirement, you need to avoid too many apps and games.
Install Speed Intensifier Cydia Tweak
If you have jailbroken your iPhone 4S or iPhone 5 on iOS 8.4, then you can easily speed up your iPhone on iOS 8.4 by installing a new Cydia tweak named Speed Intensifier.
Speed Intensifier Cydia tweak is available under ModMyi repo for free.
To conclude, there are different ways to speed up your lagging iPhone 4S on iOS 8.4, best one is using Speed Intensifier tweak. After following above tips, have you seen any performance improvement on your older iPhone? Do share with us!
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