Clear up RAM to speed up your iPhone:
Has your iPhone slowed down a little? Are you facing random app crashes or is your screen appearing to stutter or are regular functions lagging a little?
Resource-intensive tasks like heavy gaming or continuously using the camera can temporarily stump a new phone.
But this could be a solvable issue with any generation of iOS handset (apart from the ones Apple admitted to deliberately sabotaging, of course).
So if you don’t happen to own an older iPhone which was purposely being slowed down to deal with battery capacity deterioration, here’s one trick you can try to clear out your RAM.
Old iPhones – Unlock your iPhone and hold down the Sleep button until the Slide to Power Off slider shows up. Don’t power off the device.
Instead press the Home button continuously for about 5 seconds till the home screen reappears.
New iPhones – Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch and switch on AssistiveTouch.
A white and gray circle will appear on the screen. Click Customize Top Level Menu which is AssistiveTouch. Tap the icon at the center and add the Home function from the menu that is pulled up.
Then proceed to Settings > General, scroll to the bottom and tap Shut Down. The Slide to Power Off screen will show up and now you have a virtual home button to long-press!
Apply pressure until your iPhone turns black, flashes white and goes back to the Settings menu.
Go back and deactivate the on-display Home button if you want to, after clearing the RAM. Note that this particular ruse may not work on all models of the iPhone.
The Home button lives on…virtually:
The iPhone 8 series was the last Apple handset to feature a physical Home button. It hasn’t been seen since the iPhone X was launched.
But you can still have a Home button of sorts in the form of a virtual one that stays permanently on your screen! And it’s far more useful than you think.
The on-screen button in question has actually been around for years under the name AssistiveTouch; so this tip isn’t just for owners of the newer Apple smartphones.
You’re probably wondering why a regular user would need a virtual Home button.
What if the physical button on an older iPhone model is not working due to wear and tear or some software glitch? Maybe you have a new iPhone with Face ID, but the volume keys have stopped working and you haven’t had time to take it in for repairs?
It’s also possible that you’re finding it tiresome to keep pressing the hard keys at the side. The virtual home button gives you on-screen access to the basic device settings including the volume.
Just activate the virtual Home button via Settings > Accessibility > Touch > AssistiveTouch. You can further select Customize Top Level Menu, if needed.
This lets you pick from a massive host of shortcuts to various features and functions including volume control, for the virtual round key which will follow you everywhere.
Conclusion:
Those were the most helpful iPhone tricks you may want to try out right away. We will keep adding more information on iPhones including iOS tips, iPhone hacks and secret iPhone features in the latest iPhone models.
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