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My iPhone 4 has been running slow lately?
My iPhone has been running particularly slow for the past month or two. Particularly noticable is when I rearrange apps, I hold my finger on an app, and 9 seconds later the apps start to 'shake' and I can arrange them how I like. press the home button, and for 11 seconds the apps are still 'shaking' and during these 11 seconds my phone is frozen.
so, as you can see, this isn't the biggest deal in the world, but it should be 4-5 seconds of holding before I can rearrange (if I hold for 4 seconds, then release and wait the other 5 seconds the apps will begin to 'shake') and it should take at most 2 seconds to save the rearrangement after I hit the home button.
another problem I've been having lately is not being able to get 3G coverage were I was able to before. For instance today I traveled all around town and never once did my phone get 3G coverage, instead sticking to 'edge' (2G) (yes, in the settings app 'enable 3G' is set to 'ON')
I've thought the problem may be caused by having to many apps, music and video on my phone, and have since deleted many apps, songs, and videos from the phone, but the problem still remains.
any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Specs
Network: AT&T (say what you will, but I don't think this is the problem, because it worked great a month or so ago, but not so much anymore, and no one else on campus is having the same problem)
Songs: 900
Videos: 118
Photos: 2,372
Apps: 137
Capacity: 29.1 GB
Available 4.8 GB
Version 4.2.1
Yeah, I forgot to add that, every day I generally close all background apps, although I have heard conflicting accounts as to whether or not this affects the phone. but generally there are fewer than 10 apps in the background.
6 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavourite answer
Have you tried shutting down some apps so that the phone can process? You probably have apps running in the background that are sucking up all the processing speed.
Close down apps by double-clicking the home button, and when your dock appears, hold down your finger on them until a little close/delete/stop sign thing appears. Tap that and your app will close down.
- 1 decade ago
do this once and see if it speeds up if not then restore ipod because malware or stuff like that can slow anything down
Try this
1. double tap the home button while your ipod is open and on
once you double click a bar will open up click and hold down on an icon until an minus sign pops up once the sign pops up click it and the icon will disappear and do that to all of apps this bar is call the multitasking bar like on a computer so try closing apps and see if speed increases
- 7 years ago
Your iPhone is becoming slow because a large number of junks files including cookies, documents & data, temp files, "other" data etc. If you don't want to uninstall or reinstall any iOS apps, you can use 3rd party software like CleanMyPhone to clean and speed up your iPhone.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Mine too.
