Hi All.
I use my iPhone 14 for private and company purposes every day. I couldn't tell that the reaction time to my finger movements on the screen gets slower, until, yes, until I use my sighted wife's iPhone 15 or my old iPhone SE 2020 now and again.
Even the old SE 2020 feels more crisp, VoiceOver feels more responsive, though be it in the realm of milliseconds.
I have asked Apple's accessibility team whether daily VoiceOver use fills up some cache memory or the likes. They said it doesn't.
However, I cannot help but feel the difference in crispness and reaction time when using my sighted wife's iPhone and even my own old iPhone SE now and again compared to my daily driver iPhone 14.
Has anyone else observed this? Not that this changes anything, but it sort of drives me crazy.
Best wishes from Germany,
Markus
Comments
Probably not
I haven’t noticed anything and it wouldn’t make sense for it to slow down, probably just placebo or a quirk of the particular device you have, particular software version, voice, whatever.
What I do
Hi Markus,
More than several things can slow down your phone, which in turn slows responsiveness.
The first is advancing age. Older A chips in iPhones aren't as powerful as the newer A chips, and older ram is smaller than new.
Second, your ram can fill up over a day or two (or longer) with cache files, open apps, etc. If you suspect this might be the case, you can do two things: 1. close all open apps; and/or, 2. turn off your iPhone, and then turn it back on.
Third, responsiveness can slow due to apps updating in the background, particularly when notifications are turned on for too many apps which will all then be regularly, frequently be checking for updates, thereby using up your A chip's responsiveness and your ram's available space. Similarly, iPhone responsiveness can drastically slow down if it is busily engaged in background app refresh. Turn this off, and you should notice improvement in your phone responsiveness.
Next, there are certain apps that are memory hogs, such as what's app and facebook. You can google to find and read articles about apps iPhone users should avoid because of how they are memory hogs. Remove these apps from your phone, and you should notice an improvement in responsiveness.
Last, there is a wealth of articles available on line about how to speed up your iPhone. That's where I learned much of the above. Smile. I'm sure you'll learn more if you give them a try.
Joy!
Bruce
Was going to say the same thing as Bruce
Purse is right on here. There’s a lot of things that can slow down a phone, especially if people apps running in the background or if it’s been a long time since you’ve restarted the phone it’s a really good idea to do that at least once a week. Something Apple recommends. I’m not actually as good about this as I need to be either so I’m glad that I actually read this again because it’s gonna remind me to restart my devices more frequently. Because it’s OK to turn them off you don’t even leave them off overnight or something and then put them back on in the morning. I just don’t tend to remember to do it, but that’s definitely a big part of it and yeah, definitely turn off the background refresh for sure. Hope that helps. I have an SC third generation is an iPod and then my primary phone is an iPhone 15.
Valuable Advice, many thanks
Hi Bruce & all.
Many thanks for your comments. I have, indeed, disabled background app refresh. I will keep an eye on memory hogging apps like Meta apps.
the funny thing is my iPhone SE 2020 which I am using as a device for public beta testing. However, there aren't many apps running, hence the RAM wouldn't be filling up as quickly.
Thanks again, Guys, and have a nice weekend.
Greetings from Germany.
Forgot to mention
Apple Intelligence also consumes a lot of chip power and ram. Try turning it off if it is on and see if you notice a difference.