FrankS
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A tweet I just read:
Another windows update. Yay.
Made my computer, once lightning fast, slow and barely responsive.
Another windows update. Yay.
Made my computer, once lightning fast, slow and barely responsive.
ipad mini question
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pete hogan
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Power off and reboot every week or two helps iPad and iPhone with best operation and memory management.
Double click Home and sweep up is primarily intended for apps that are hung. Some apps set much larger memory as they run over time.
Double click Home and sweep up is primarily intended for apps that are hung. Some apps set much larger memory as they run over time.
madNbad
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Check "Manage Memory" in Settings. This will show you how much memory each of the apps is using. You can delete the app and reinstall it to clear out some of the memory it is using. Also, as IOS continues to update, the older processors will only keep up for so long before you're looking at replacing the current device.
FrankS
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pete hogan
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Settings
General
Storage & iCloud Usage
Manage Storage (STORAGE) or Manage Storage (ICLOUD)
Larry H-L
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One other item that can slow down your iPad is an e-mail that is stuck.
If you've recently sent an e-mail with a large attachment (photo), it can get hung up and slow down your device.
If you've recently sent an e-mail with a large attachment (photo), it can get hung up and slow down your device.
pete hogan
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Before sending any attachment or photo by email, open Apple Mail Sent and make sure it has "Updated Just Now" or your sending may hang in Mailboxes Outbox.
back alley
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when i double click the home button, many apps along with mail and safari show...i can flip back and forth from one to another but i don't see a way to quit them?
i tried the swipe but nothing happens.
i tried the swipe but nothing happens.
pete hogan
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After double Home you have to swipe shrunken individual apps straight up and pretty precisely. That should close the one you swipe.
back alley
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swiping up worked...
Fraser
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I may be wrong but I think it was only first generation I products that quitting apps like that made any difference. The easy thing to do is backup using a computer and iTunes factory reset then only install the apps you actually use.
Of course it could just be boken 🙁
Good luck!
back alley
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well, i took off a bunch of apps that i never use...a few that i rarely use and left on the ones i use/need.
i quit all apps by swiping...tonight i'll use the ipad mini while i watch tv and see if i have affected any change.
i quit all apps by swiping...tonight i'll use the ipad mini while i watch tv and see if i have affected any change.
pete hogan
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Pro geeks like John Siracusa say to leave apps open and only close them if they hang, that idle apps do nothing.
Off and then reboot is the most important to maintain operation. My Gen 3 iPad needed that once a week. Not the force off, just use the sleep button, hold it down until the power off swipe switch appears on the screen.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
What Col. Moran said: By killing the apps as he described, you're not removing them from the device and not preventing them from being run again. You're just removing them from RAM where they might be slowing things down.
iOS does not have the macOS notion of "quit" in an app's environment and there's no system setting to say "when I shift another app frontmost, quit the app I was in." It would be difficult to implement that and likely not a good user experience because it would slow down the startup for a lot of apps, and it *might* lose some data along the way. So every once in a while, it's a good idea to kill apps that are in memory manually. The system gets better and better at cleaning things up and reducing the impact of apps in RAM with each succeeding version, but it's still a good thing to do now and then.
(My iPhone 6 shipped with iOS 8 IIRC and I've updated it through at least two major releases since. It's been improved in responsiveness and speed with each OS update. The iPhone 5 was a major change of hardware, so if you're running an older piece of hardware than that, yes: the latest OS either won't install at all or will run less than optimally. The iPhone 5 was introduced 4.5 years ago, which is longer ago than most people hold onto mobile phones...)
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back alley
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2 interesting observations from last night.
the 'touch' factor on the screen seems much less sensitive than when i originally got it...and the most problems i had with the desensitized screen and sluggish page movement was on facebook.
the 'touch' factor on the screen seems much less sensitive than when i originally got it...and the most problems i had with the desensitized screen and sluggish page movement was on facebook.
Godfrey
somewhat colored
"Seems" is hard to quantify. You need to figure out some mechanism to quantify the behavior. (My systems don't have any degradations in their touch sensitivity or responsiveness with the latest iOS revisions. If anything, they're improved.)
It wouldn't surprise me if the FB interface has become slower. They keep adding more and more stuff to it. On my systems, it's a pig.
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nikonhswebmaster
Retired NHS Webmaster
I would have to agree with Joe, but as you say very hard to quantify. FB just keeps becoming more complicated, but they do not update the software.
FB does much faster on my iPhone SE (A9 chip), than on my mini ipad 2 (A7 chip), so processing power appears to be a factor.
