5 tips to improve the performance of your Android phone

If you’re thinking of changing your Android smartphone just because it’s not as fast as it used to be, think again. Outdated specs play a role, but a few tweaks can get things back to normal.

In this short guide, I’m going to outline five tips to make your smartphone snappier than ever.

Tip 1: Never flush cached data

There are many experts They tell you to clean your phone’s cache regularly, but there is a reason why cached data resides on your phone. Allows quick access to the applications you use frequently.

When you delete cached data, Android loads an app from your phone’s storage space, and this leads to slow app startup. So in an attempt to speed up your smartphone, you may end up doing the opposite.

Tip 2: Uninstall Useless Apps

It is better to uninstall those apps that you rarely use, to prevent them from running in the background and using the memory (RAM) of the smartphone.

To view the list of installed apps and uninstall them, follow these steps:

Settings < Apps < View list of apps in 'Downloaded' tab < Select any app < ​​Uninstall

Tip 3 – Disable animations

You must have noticed some transition effects when popping up or moving back and forth on your Android phone. These animations also consume RAM. If your phone is slow, you’d better disable such effects.

You need to turn on developer options first, and to do that, go to phone settings, select “About phone”, go to “Build number” and tap on it 7 times. Android will make you a developer (the easiest course of all, right?).

Now, press the “back” button and tap to open “Developer Options”. In the Drawing section of “Developer Options” you will find “Window Animation Scale”, “Transition Animation Scale” and “Animator Animation Scale”.

You can select all three one by one and disable their animation effect.

Although the transitions will not be as aesthetic as they were, you will notice the improvement in the performance of your phone.

Tip 4 – Disable preloaded apps

If your phone is an Android and not a nexus, your manufacturer may have passed you some useless apps that you don’t use but can’t uninstall. It is not a problem! You can always disable such apps.

To do this, long press on any preloaded app and drag it to the “App info” icon on the home screen; then tap “Deactivate”. Although the app will still take up your storage space, at least it won’t be running in the background.

Tip 5 – Send files to the cloud

If your phone gallery takes forever to open, you need to find a new place to store your video and image files safely.

You can download “Google drive” or “Dropbox” or any other cloud services to your smartphone and send your files to the cloud. Not only will it let you free up some storage space, but it will also allow you to access your photos and videos from any other smartphone or PC.

These 5 tips may just convince you to keep your good friend Android around for at least a while to come.