If your phone’s feeling a little sluggish, you might think it’s time to hit the stores and invest in a new one, but if you’re an Apple fan, you might want to hold off making a new purchase until you try this little trick.
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But for anyone not up to taking such drastic measures, a solution has emerged that can provide an immediate speed boost by clearing up memory in the phone’s App Store.
When calamity strikes and your iPhone is lost or stolen, Apple’s own Find My iPhone is a good tool, but it’s only useful once you realize your device is missing. You must tap the same button 10 times.
Developer Zachary Drayer recently explained the trick on Twitter, and it’s therefore weird that it’s unlikely the majority realize it.
You will need to clear the cache within the iOS App Store and to do this just tap on the Menu Bar which is found at the bottom of the page.
Many people who are running iOS, including those on iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch have been reporting issues the past week when it comes to the Apple App Store.
As the screen goes blank as a result of successive tapping, the temporary storage gets cleared.
The tests were reportedly part of a larger effort on Facebook’s part to prepare for a future conflict with Google that would force its apps out of the Play Store. What you have actually done is successfully reset your App stores’s cache.
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