Speed Up Your iPhone 6 After the iOS11 Debacle HD

In this video, I’m doing a quick public service announcement for all the iPhone 6 users who experienced a slow down after installing iOS 11. Please subscribe and leave comments below! **** A truncated transcript follows. A full transcript can be found at www.marblejar.net. **** Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video — I’m doing a quick public service announcement for all the iPhone 6 users who experienced a slow down after installing iOS 11. I still have an iPhone 6. iPhones are expensive and there had been really no reason to upgrade. EXCEPT that I downloaded iOS several months ago and my phone slowed to a crawl. Did this happen to you? My iPhone is not my primary device — I use my iPad much more, but I use it while I’m out and about to check texts, make appointments, and check my to do list. All of these activities became so slow that it was almost pointless to even use my phone for anything other than taking phone calls. Here are some real timing that I clocked: * 19 seconds to open iMessage to view a text * 22 seconds to open Google Calendar, even longer to actually edit or add an appointment * Up to 30 seconds to open a note in Evernote * Incoming calls would ring on my connected car speaker, but it wouldn’t show up on the phone display to answer the call for 6 or more seconds. SO IRRITATING! Of course, I read that Apple was deliberately slowing down older iPhones to “preserve battery life.” There was also — eventually — a update fix coming. But, until then, I had to do SOMETHING — my phone was basically unusable even for basic functions. So, I tried a couple of things: * Manage Storage - I have a 64GB phone. If you are using too much of your storage, you can experience a slow down. Go to Settings, General, then iPhone Storage. Offload your photos to iCloud, or Google Photos. I take mine off my phone every 3 months. Delete videos, media attached to texts, etc. Look at these recommendations given by Apple. You can review and delete your text message attachments right here from this screen. Once I did this, the largest amount of storage is taken up by apps, so next I went to . . . * Delete Unused Apps - I did a giant spring cleaning of my phone and iPad to delete unused apps and organize the ones I kept. You can view my video on that. You can also . . . * Turn of Background Refresh - check to see which apps are updating even when you are not using them. This could slow down your phone. But in the end, even though these actions DID helped to clean up my phone, they didn’t do very much to speed things up. So, here is the thing I did that actually helped quite a bit. I ordered a new battery. You can order a replacement battery from Apple for $30, have it sent to an Apple store, and they will install it without an appointment. Batteries used to be $80, but they lowered the price by $50 as a concession for making our phones unusable. Here’s what you do to order a new b