In this video, I tell you how you can easily and visibly speed up your iPhone 3G in a few simple steps. For those of you who don’t feel like watching me talk for five minutes, here are the instructions in text form: 1. Open up settings. 2. Choose General. 3. Choose Home Button. 4. Choose Spotlight Search. 5. Disable all of these options. Your iPhone 3G will now run faster than the iOS4 update regularly does. This is how it works: When Spotlight Search is on, you can use the screen to the left of the home screen to search for anything on your phone. Nobody really uses this function though, so this makes it easy for anyone to turn it off. What happens is that your iPhone 3G, running iOS4, indexes everything on your phone: contacts, videos, songs, apps, etc. When you disable these options, the iPhone no longer indexes these things in the background, which frees up a bit of the processor and everything else that makes your phone tick. If for some strange reason, you do use the Spotlight search, you can just disable the options that you do not use. On a totally unrelated note, the song that i play from my iPod is Aerodynamic Beats / Gabrielle, Forget About The World by Daft Punk from their album, Alive 2007, if you have never heard of them, (Your Loss) I suggest that you type in Daft Punk in the search bar up there. : ) If you have any other questions, comments or just regular feedback, post them down there in the comments.
@cajungamer – Yeah same here. I used it for maybe 2 or 3 days, but after that, I was done. Do you have an iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone?
@MisterBaseball200 To be honest, I don’t even use iBooks anymore. The Kindle app (Amazon), in my opinion is much better.
Good grief, don’t even get me started with iBooks. That app is so annoying. When I had it it took my iphone probably 5 minutes just to get to a book to read.
what happen if i dont have the “HOME BUTTON” thing show up after i click on general? cause i dont have that i dont know why either.
Thanks for the help, i didn’t realise how slow it was until I turned it all off 😀
crazily.
thanks man! 🙂
closing ALL your opened tabs on safari helps a LOT too!
Quite much smoother, eh?
just disable multitasking and bckground……..oh, and do what this guy did as well.
nice vid
That didnt make much difference..I am having a iphone 3g recently upgraded the OS to 4.0.1 which really screwed up my phone.. I am thinking of upgrading it to the latest OS thats 4.2. Please advice….
A seven minute video on how to turn off spotlight? Although most of that was spent looking for ‘home button’ haha.
thank you man it helps a little bit ( better than nothing) =)
thanks-my iphone is running better now
@cajungamer I don’t care what it might do… I’m commenting on what happened in your video. Maybe you should edit it so when you say it happens instantly were not waiting 5 seconds
@ladieu1 Well the funny thing is, It actually does… Once you re boot your phone.
lol, “loads up the song almost instantly”… 5 seconds later…. ha ha
was that a joke???
c++ for dummies? 😀
llmmmffaaaoooooo home button was kicking his ass!!
@dmanthony1 I wish I had waited a month to get a 3GS now. About two weeks after this “Fix”, my phone started crapping out on me again…