Why Your Phone WILL Get Slower
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2019-05-06
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1,143 words · ~5 min read
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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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