Give Your iPhone Browser a Boost With This Trick
Is your iPhone loading webpages slowly? Here's what you can do to speed things up.
iPhones are handy, versatile devices used by more than half of American smartphone owners. They can help you easily find a new recipe, see what the weather is going to be like tomorrow and find the name of the actress in HBO's The Last Of Us (it's Bella Ramsey). iPhones are multitools that help people every day.
But whether you do your browsing in Chrome, Safari or elsewhere on your iPhone, your cache builds up digital clutter over time. Clearing your cache gives your browser a new start, which can speed up your browsing whether you're using iOS 15 or iOS 16. (And if you're trying to get your phone to run faster, try managing your iPhone's storage.)
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Clearing your cache is like clearing out your fridge. When you visit a site, your iPhone downloads photos, banners and other data. To make that process faster, most browsers store some data in a cache to make loading faster. It's great when the fridge is fully stocked and you can quickly grab what you need... and less great when the thing you grab expired two months ago.
Eventually, your browser's cache will become outdated and the data being retrieved no longer matches the data actually being used on the website. The result? Slower load speeds and wonky website formatting. This is the equivalent of your fridge being full of gross, expired products.
That's why clearing your cache can help: It gives sites a fresh start in your browser and frees up some space in your storage. Note that clearing your cache will sign you out of sites you're currently logged into. Still, it's generally worth that mild inconvenience about every month to keep things moving quickly.
2022-09-29 20:12:37
