AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – Apple launched new iPhones on Wednesday, and in the event you have been watching the revealing, you may assume the brand new iPhone 14 is significantly better than the iPhone 13.

It might be tempting to improve, however in the event you’re proud of the cellphone you may have, it’s best to be capable to maintain on to it for an additional 12 months or extra.

You can also make an outdated iPhone appear new by taking a number of easy steps in settings.

Give your cellphone a fast re-fresh by addressing an information hog that takes up house and slows every part down. The key phrase is ‘different’.

Go to Common Settings and iPhone Storage. That exhibits which recordsdata and content material are taking on house.

A superb little bit of that house is labeled as “Different”. It’s merely information and paperwork. Leftovers from apps, messages, photographs, and even social media posts you’ve appreciated. Fb’s an excellent instance.

On our cellphone, the app is simply over 200 megabytes. However it’s storing one other 240 megabytes. That’s Different. Digicam apps are even worse.

Undergo your listing. Delete the apps you don’t use. Offloading them doesn’t liberate any of that information. So how do you do away with it? A technique is to delete the app and re-install it.

You received’t lose something, and also you’ll acquire again that space for storing. It will possibly add as much as fairly a bit.

Another choice is to make your cellphone new by resetting it to manufacturing unit settings. Again up the cellphone to a pc or iCloud.

Don’t skip that step. Usually settings, reset the cellphone and select to erase all content material and settings. When you’ve backed up the cellphone, you’ll be tremendous.

Your cellphone will likely be prefer it simply got here from the shop. When prompted, restore the cellphone from the place you backed it up, the iCloud, or the pc.

Our cellphone went from utilizing over 48 GB to a little bit over 31. That’s a variety of house. It will repair any sluggishness and different points. It takes a few half-hour for every part.

Be sure to have an excellent web connection. You’ll have to be on WiFi to revive from the iCloud. You received’t lose necessary photographs, contacts, messages, or the rest you’ve backed as much as the cloud.

Steps to backup, reset and resort your iPhone

• Again up your cellphone. That is crucial step. Join the cellphone to your PC or Mac or again as much as iCloud. You’ll see this feature within the settings
• Reset your cellphone by going to Settings > Common, then scroll to the underside and faucet on “Reset”. You’ll see a number of choices right here, select “Erase all Content material and Settings”
• You’ll be requested in the event you’d wish to replace your iCloud Backup earlier than erasing. When you skipped step one, select “backup then erase”.
• Your cellphone will likely be returned to manufacturing unit settings. It will in all probability take quarter-hour or much less, and your cellphone will show the Apple emblem after shutting down and restarting
• On the immediate to arrange as a brand new iPhone or restore from backup, select ‘restore from backup’
• Choose the situation of your final backup. When you backed as much as a pc, you’ll want to hook up with the pc. When you select iCloud, you’ll have to be on a WiFi community

When you observe these steps, your content material will likely be loaded onto your cellphone like new. Be aware that it’ll take a couple of minutes to re-install the apps, and also you’ll have to log in once more to WiFi networks.

When you’re tempted to improve to the newest cellphone as a result of your battery doesn’t final so long as it ought to, Apple now permits clients to switch batteries in most telephones. You are able to do that at Apple and Finest Purchase shops for lots lower than the price of a brand new cellphone.

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