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Do Iphones slow down over time?
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Pretty much what I've said in the title, my Iphone is about 4 months old and I'm starting to notice a difference in the amount of time it takes to do pretty much everything (opening apps, internet speed, texting). Am I just being paranoid or is this something other people have noticed? It seemed really fast when I first got it now I can only compare its condition to a sort of accelerated windows rot. Is there anything that can be done to fix it that doesn't involve restoring it to factory default?
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my iphone is over a year old now, and the only real difference I've noticed is that the battery doesn't seem to last as long -- otherwise, no performance issues (aside from the month-long period with the really shitty firmware that made everything slow)
do you live near an apple store? they're super nice in there, you should just take it in and have them look at it. worst possible situation is that you get a brand new one for free.
I live in Scotland so I don't even know if there's an apple store in the country let alone near by, I suppose I could take it to the O2 shop where I got it but I would like to avoid that because this seems pretty minor and I doubt they would do anything about it.
Sorry if I'm being ignorant but would I loose anything on the phone if I did this?
FYI, there are Apple stores in Glasgow and Edinburgh (AKA Cancom - not a 'true' apple store but they are listed as experts). In Aberdeen you're stuck with PC World or John Lewis - you'd be better off asking a junkie to fix it.
thanks!
you just solved my little brother's problem as well.
That's a hard reset but often all that is needed is to reboot the phone. These are two different things. A hard reset is like pulling the plug on your computer. Rebooting is, well, rebooting it-- The right way. ie shutting down the OS and rebooting the hardware.
To reboot, hold the lock/unlock button, then swipe to turn off. Turn back on by holding the lock/unlock button until the apple logo shows up. If you mess up the key combo for a hard reset you could put your phone into restore mode which would require to you plug it back into iTunes.
Nothing fancy, it frees up all your shit.