Gone are the days when many of us changed smartphones once a year. More and more of us are trying to lengthen the replacement cycle until, at least, reaching two or three years of useful life. A good sign for the technological field, since it shows that technology is increasingly durable, but a challenge for the user. And how can we ensure a certain level of performance even when our iPhone has already accumulated three or four years of use?
In my particular case, I have been using an iPhone 12 from 2020 until well into the present 2024. Over the last few months, I began to notice how the performance was no longer the same than at the beginning. And while it is true that part of the explanation is due to the advancement of technology itself and the needs required by the current version of iOS, another very important part of these performance problems lay in my bad usage habits. We tell you some of the habits that you can add to your daily routine to always maintain an optimal level of performance.
Take care of battery cycles
The battery It is one of the most important factors of any smartphone. As it loses capacity, it is normal for our experience to be considerably impaired. One of the most important habits that we must internalize is to prevent it from reaching 0% and charging up to 100%. In fact, Apple implemented an optimized charging system that reduces charging speed from 80% to 100%. Even in the latter we can, we have the option to limit the load up to a custom percentage starting from 80%. Regardless of your iPhone model, you can automate this process through the software itself or by being a little careful and disconnecting it when it reaches 80%.
If you have noticed how your battery has lost a lot of capacity lately, you can also choose to balance it from time to time. Once a year can be more than enough to ensure that you will always be able to take full advantage of its capacity. To do this, we must charge our iPhone up to 100% and then let it discharge completely. Once this is done, we will have to leave it without charging for a few hours and, after this time, charge it again up to 100%. Preferably, without using it. So a good option is to do it at night. With this method, you will avoid the classic behavior that when your iPhone still reads 4 or 5%, it turns off for no apparent reason.
What about storage
If we have a model with base storage, it is possible that at some point we have seen ourselves running out of gigabytes. Even if we have the feeling that we do not have a large number of downloaded applications. In this case, the problem is probably in the system data.
We can access this information if we go to “iPhone Storage” and look for “System Data”. If you accumulate several tens of gigabytes, it is probably due to some error that occurred as you went restoring backups during the last few years. An iPhone restore will help you free up this storage.
The importance of updates
If you are one of those who always leaves the updates that Apple releases for later, here is probably one of the most important reasons why your iPhone doesn’t work as it should. It is very important to have our iPhone well updated. This is the only possible way to ensure that we always have the latest security patches downloaded.
Although the first versions of each new version of iOS may cause greater battery consumption, over time it stabilizes and there is no reason not to trust the benefits it can offer us.
As you can see, it is a series of habits that are very easy to add to our routine and that can make us enjoy our iPhone at its best levels of performance.
