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notifications with the bell icon so you won't miss any future videos so you

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dropped a few hundred bills on a shiny new smartphone and at first you were

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thrilled with how great the photos looked the crispness of the screen and

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of course how fast it was then you fast forward a year or two and

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your once top of the line phone feels like it just had a giant turkey dinner

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and was ready to pass out in the back seat on the way home i mean can you

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imagine if your car for example struggled to go

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from 0 to 60 a couple of years after you drove it off the law i mean how does

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this happen well there are a number of reasons for

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it but a big one stems from something that you probably see on your phone

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multiple times a week you know how your phone often notifies you in the morning

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about how many apps it updated while it was charging overnight well just like

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software for a desktop pc mobile app updates often add new features which

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require ever more processing power and developers know that as phone

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manufacturers keep coming out with more powerful hardware they can take

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advantage of it to write more feature-packed apps this also means

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though that older phones can get left behind quickly as their hardware just

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can't keep up with the demands of the newer versions of your favorite software

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and a related problem is the operating system itself os updates are also tuned

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to take advantage of newer models due to the ever expanding list of features that

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they aim to support also they tend to end up optimized for

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the most recent devices since that's where the smartphone makers are

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generating much of their revenue think for example about how apple makes a big

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deal about how new iOS releases give different kinds of functionality to

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hardware that is only found in the latest and greatest iphones

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the unfortunate thing is that app and os updates are largely out of your control

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they hit your phone by default whenever a new version is available and

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i mean you can turn these updates off but i wouldn't recommend it because they

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also contain important security updates

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however one thing that may be slowing your phone down that you do have some

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control over is how many apps you have installed with storage sizes phone

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feature sets and download speeds increasing it's easy to have dozens or

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even hundreds of third-party apps installed on your phone and not even

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realize it having so many apps installed can slow your phone down in two ways one

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certain apps can load up code that runs in the background when you start up your

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phone which can use up processor cycles and RAM

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two as the amount of free space that you have remaining on your device decreases

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the solid-state storage inside your phone slows down because its operating

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system has to work harder to find pieces of free space to write new data to

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now although this kind of file fragmentation isn't nearly as much of a

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concern on solid-state phone storage as it would be with a spinning hard drive

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it can still be noticeable and this also applies if your phone is

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filled with things other than apps i mean

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how many old videos or photos of where you parked at the mall do you have in

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your pocket that you just never bothered deleting so if your phone is intolerably

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slow transferring media to cloud storage and then removing apps that you don't

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need anymore as well as deleting cached data are good first steps

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if you're more of an enthusiast though well there are active community

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developers who have worked very hard to bring modern os versions to older

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Android hardware without some of the bloat if you've got an old and slow

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galaxy s3 for example and you'd like to breed some more life into it it might be

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worth a little pop in over at xda developers

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but not before you hit up ebay for a new battery if you do have an aging phone

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you've also probably noticed that the battery life isn't what it used to be

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and this can affect both how long it lasts in between charges

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and even its performance you may not know that batteries resist

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current flow as they get older causing them to heat up if your phone's internal

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temperature gets too hot it can cause its CPU to throttle slowing things down

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batteries also lose some of their maximum capacity over time which has led

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to creative solutions from companies like

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apple where they admitted to slowing down older phones to ensure that while

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performance did suffer battery life would stay similar to when the device

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was new and you can learn more about that little scandal up here

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the bottom line is that between apps that continually demand both more CPU

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performance and storage space and batteries that wear out in a few years

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it's almost like the deck is stacked against you so that you'll feel

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compelled to keep buying new phones oh maybe that was it

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well it took a while but we got to the answer fortnite is free to play on pc mac

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playstation 4 xbox one switch iOS and Android a hundred players drop out of

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the battle bus onto an island collect materials and weapons and the last one

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standing wins the environment is completely destructible and you can

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build using the materials you gather you can play in solos or with your friends

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in duos and squads and season seven is here in season seven the storm wing is

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the awesome new aerial vehicle in battle royale and season seven introduces a

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massive map update with the new snow-themed areas including frosty

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flights happy hamlet and polar peak the season seven battle pass is now

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available with a hundred tiers and over a hundred rewards there's a new cosmetic

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item wraps so you can customize your weapons and vehicles to match your

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favorite outfits and there are new pets so jump in for yourself using the link

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