Speed Up Your iPhone

Is your iPhone a little more sluggish than you'd like? Maybe it's taking a second longer to pick up that phone call then you would like. Well, there are a few things you can do to try to streamline your iPhone that it starts working for you again. Let's see what we can do...

Turn E-Mail Off

There aren't too many applications that are allowed to run in the background; That is, when the application is quit (when you press the home button). The E-Mail application is one of them.
If you have multiple e-mail accounts, consider turning one or more of them off, which will free up some of the iPhone's processing and save the battery it takes to vibrate the phone or transmit that "you've got mail" notification tone.
Your e-mail settings are at Home screen > Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars


Turn Push Notifications Off

With push notifications, your iPhone gets updated every time something happens relating to one of your applications. Depending on how many applications you have, these push notifications can add up. Pretty soon you'll be interrupted at the most inopportune time. Not only can it be distracting, push notifications are a kind of application themselves. Every time you get one, you might notice the iPhone gets a tad sluggish. Turn them off and it ceases to be a problem. If you don't feel like turning them off carte blanche, try turning push notifications off for your least important applications.
Push notification settings are found at Home screen > Settings > Notifications


Optimize the Browser

Safari on the iPhone works just like Safari on Mac OS X. If you want to speed performance, you'll want to keep the number of open windows to a minimum to clear up RAM. Ever once in a while, you will want to hop into Home Screen > Settings > Safari > Clear Cache.
You'll also notice some other features, like JavaScript and plug-ins, you can turn off on your mobile browser in order to save some time (and battery). Sure you trade off features, but your iPhone is a phone first and a browser second, right?



Use the 3G Network
If you have a 3G phone, you're probably already using the 3G network. We just thought we'd add this just in case you turned it off in order to save precious battery time the 3G network sucks up.

In the future
The next generation of iPhone is coming up, and everyone is curious to what it looks like. If it's anything like the latest iteration (the iPhone 3GS), it means a speed increase. You may not have to make consolations in order to ensure your phone works at its maximum speed. The phone might just be zippy enough without it.