Given buying a new smartphone isn't possible for everyone, here is a list of five tips to boost your phone's performance quickly. Smartphones have become an integral part of our lives. However, with everyday usage, mobile phones tend to slow down with time. Of course, every gadget at the end of the day will start lagging eventually, and a mobile device is no different. This can often get annoying, mainly at the time when most of us are working from home and are depending a lot on our smartphones to complete day-to-day tasks. This means it is important for our smartphones to run smoothly.
Here is a list of five tips to boost your phone's performance
quickly.
Clear the cached data
Every task you perform on a phone leaves a trace. All of these build up as cache in the RAM. Clearing the junk can help reclaim the speed back. Apps and other tasks leave a trace so they can open faster, however, this takes up space and leaves less RAM for the tasks you want to perform later on. To clear the cache, go to Settings > Storage > Cache. Tap on the Cache option, and the device will ask if you want to clear the cache partition, click on confirm.
Disable animations
Animations and transitions are pleasing to the eyes but the phone requires a lot of resources to make the UI look fluid. Eventually, these animations get jittery. Turning off animations makes the UI look much better, at the same time saves up some processing power.
To disable animations, head over to Settings > About Phone > Tap Build number until you see a pop-up intimating that Developer options have been enabled > Go back to the main Settings page > Open Developer options > Windows animation scale > Animations off. Turn off the Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale in the Developer's options.
Remove bloatware, unused apps
Smartphones pack a lot of bloatware that might not be useful for you. Moreover, you might also have installed a few apps that you do not use anymore. All of these apps take up space inside of your phone, have cache traces and take up screen real estate also, hence slowing down your device. To fix this, just give your device a clean sweep by looking for unwanted apps and uninstalling them. If you cannot uninstall them by disabling them.
Turn on Data Saver on Chrome
Chrome as a web browser is extremely capable and one of the best to use. In terms of optimizations, it is not as robust as a few other options available in the market. As it comes pre-installed on most phones and how integrated we are in the Google ecosystem, most do not shift browsers.
One minor fix that you can perform to improve performance is to turn on the Data Saver mode in Chrome, which compresses everything to around 30 to 50 percent. Thus taking up less space and turning up the speed.
To turn on the data saver mode you need to open Chrome, then tap on the hamburger icon on the top right corner, tap Settings, open the Data Saver option and turn it on.
Do not use live wallpapers
Live wallpapers look amazing but require several CPU cycles to
run. This puts stress on the CPU and the battery, making the device slower and
less efficient. It is recommended you put a static photo as phone wallpaper to
save on resources.
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