Make an Old iPhone Instantly Faster on iOS 16 by Turning Off Just 2 Features

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Your old iPhone holding you back on the latest iOS 16 update? Don’t worry, you can just turn off two features to make everything slightly better.

iOS 16 is packed with a bunch of amazing features for the iPhone. But with all those great new things come an extra burden on your phone’s processor. It might not be that noticeable on something newer like the iPhone 14 or iPhone 13, but if you have a phone like the iPhone 8 or even the iPhone X, then you might not be fond of iOS 16 that much.

There are a couple of features that you can turn off to gain some performance back and keep your RAM free so that apps don’t have to load over and over again. And I’ve chosen just two features because these are likely the ones you don’t care about at all so it’s best to just throw them away into the bin.

Believe it or not, widgets can actually slow down your phone a lot. It’s basically a snippet of an app that keeps on refreshing from time to time in order to provide the latest information, such as weather. This also means they keep themselves in the RAM and may eat into other stuff, forcing some apps in the background to shut down, especially if you have too many widgets on the Home Screen.

When I mentioned that you should delete all your Home Screen widgets, I really mean all of them. This includes the ones that are accessible from the Lock Screen and the ones you have placed under the Lock Screen clock. Make everything mega vanilla otherwise you’ll be bleeding memory away for no reason at all.

Removing widgets is easy. Put your iPhone’s Home Screen in edit mode by tapping and holding on a widget or app icon and then tap on Edit Home Screen. Now simply tap on the “-“ button on the top right of the widget to remove it.

This one’s a no-brainer