-- Jonnie Appleseed With His Hands-On Technolog(eye)s touching the internet Reducing Technology's disabilities One Byte At a time Begin forwarded message: From: Kathy Brandt <katya20707@xxxxxxxxx> Date: October 14, 2013 at 7:50:16 AM EDT To: David Hilbert Poehlman <poehlman1@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: FwdFW: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up Begin forwarded message: From: Nimit <kaur.nimit@xxxxxxxxx> Date: October 13, 2013 at 11:47:36 PM EDT To: viphone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Fwd: [IDevices] {Disarmed} FW: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up Reply-To: viphone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: "Denny Huff" <denny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: September 23, 2013 at 4:05:09 PM EDT > To: <IDevices@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [IDevices] {Disarmed} FW: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How > to Speed It Up > Reply-To: Denny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Feed: OS X Daily > Posted on: Monday, September 23, 2013 2:24 PM > Author: Paul Horowitz > Subject: If You Think iOS 7 Feels Slow Here’s How to Speed It Up > > > > Most users are satisfied with iOS 7 performance, but some iPhone and iPad > owners have discovered the major update has impacted the speed of their > devices. If you feel like iOS 7 has made your hardware slower than it was > before the update, there are some changes you can make that will likely speed > things up a bit. These tricks will make the biggest difference on older > device hardware running iOS 7, so if your device feels a bit sluggish after > updating take a moment to make a few settings adjustments. The first few > tricks may also boost your battery life too… > > Use “Increase Contrast” to Eliminate Transparency & Blur Effects > > The widespread transparencies, blurs, and fancy overlays throughout iOS 7 > look fantastic, but on older hardware they can also make devices run slower > by using up system resources. > > Open Settings and go to “General” then to “Accessibility” > Choose “Increase Contrast” and toggle it to ON > > > This makes the Notification Center, Control Center, folders, and some other > UI elements a bit less attractive since it takes away the eye candy, removing > the transparent effects and changing their respective backgrounds to a solid > color. If you notice any sort of lag with opening the aforementioned > features, you’ll notice a nice speed boost by turning the contrast on. > > Note that some hardware doesn’t support as many transparencies to begin with, > but you can still toggle the setting to reduce it further. > > Turn Off Background App Refresh > > This feature lets apps update in the background, and while it’s handy, it > also slows down older iOS devices and is one of the biggest battery draining > elements of iOS 7 with devices we’ve used it on… so sorry Background App > Refresh, you have to go: > > From “Settings”, go to “General” and choose “Background App Refresh” > Switch “Background App Refresh” to the OFF position > > > Turning this off basically means that apps will only refresh once they are > active, which is the same behavior that existed prior to iOS 7 anyway. > Toggling this setting has a noticeable impact on iPhone 4 performance in > particular. > > Turn On Motion Reduction > > Like most other eye candy, the snazzy motion effects in iOS 7 are pleasant to > look at but can tax system resources a bit. Thus, turning the feature off > will reduce the system load and can speed up performance on some hardware: > > Back in Settings, head over to “General” and then on to “Accessibility” > Select “Reduce Motion” and flip the toggle so that it’s ON > > > Note that some older iPhone and iPad models won’t even have this setting > available to them, because it’s turned OFF by default. If you don’t see the > “Reduce Motion” setting in your Accessibility panel, it’s because it is not > supported on your device – likely for performance reasons. > > Lose Automatic Updates & Downloads > > The reason for turning this off is simple: anything running in the background > uses system resources to do so, the same theory behind disabling Background > App Refresh. Turn off Automatic Downloads and Updates for everything: > > Go to Settings and then to “iTunes & App Store” > Choose “Automatic Downloads” and toggle everything to OFF > > > Turning these settings off means you will have to manually update your apps > through the App Store, and you will also need to manually download songs and > apps on this particular device if you started downloading the same apps on > other iOS devices. Three useful features indeed, but ones that aren’t hard to > live without in the name of better device performance. > > Consider a Complete Restore to Factory Defaults > > A bit extreme, but sometimes you can boost performance on virtually any > iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch simply by clearing off everything and resetting > it to factory default settings. Be sure to back up your device before you do > this, and then you can restore from a backup when it’s finished, or just > start with a clean slate. > > Admittedly this is a pain in the rear, but there is a long history of > positive reports ever since the earliest days of iOS (and OS X or Windows for > that matter…) of wiping everything out and clean installing an operating > system. > > For extreme cases this may resolve some lingering performance issues, but for > most users we would not recommend this simply because it’s a nuisance. > > Update to iOS 7.1 (or Whatever) When It Arrives > > iOS 7 is a major update and there are some bugs and performance issues that > shipped with the first release. This is why we recommended some users hold > off on the first 7.0 release, since history has long informed us that initial > releasees of major updates are often buggy and can impact performance in a > negative way. Whether you’re waiting to update or not, be sure to jump on the > iOS update releases when they come out, as it will almost certainly contain > significant improvements and bug fixes, refining the iOS 7 experience > considerably. > > > > > View article... > > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > Denny Huff > > Gateway For the Blind LLC. > > PO Box 515 > > St. Clair, MO 63077 > > Phone: (636) 262-1383 > > FAX: (314) 558-0298 > > WWW.GatewayForTheBlind.Com > > > > Have questions about that IPhone, IPad or IPod Touch? > > Join the IDevices list serve and get answers to your questions and find out > tips and tricks about using those devices. > > To join send an email message to: > > IDevices-Join@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > _______________________________________ > Having problems with MS Office applications? 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