It only takes 10 seconds to reset your iPhone RAM and make it run quicker - here's how
Clearing your iPhone's RAM could make it run much quicker
Once you've downloaded a few apps, loaded them with music and taken a bunch of photos, even the most powerful iPhones can become a bit sluggish at times.
Fortunately, there's one easy thing you can do to get it running faster that Apple doesn't really mention.
One tweet from Apple fan Marc Forrest brought the feature to the world, which clears your phone's RAM, preventing it from slowing everything else down with apps you're not using.
All users need to do, when the phone is unlocked, is hold down the top power button until the 'slide to power off' slider appears, and then hold down the bottom home button for five seconds.
The home screen will then reappear, and your phone's RAM will be cleaned out - leaving your phone noticeably quicker.
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Show all 11Better yet, it won't close the apps that you've already got open, so nothing should be lost. However, they will reload when you go to them.
It's not a perfect fix - reloading apps means a short delay when you open them, and iOS does a pretty good job of managing your RAM usage by itself.
But if your phone is being slow and you've tried everything, resetting the RAM takes 10 seconds and could help dramatically.
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