{"id":56098,"date":"2013-11-22T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T09:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=56098"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:00:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:00:59","slug":"how-to-speed-up-ios-7-on-older-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/how-to-speed-up-ios-7-on-older-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"How to speed up iOS 7 on older devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--[lead]--><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve recently updated an older iOS device to iOS 7, you might find that its performance is struggling with all the new, fancy graphics. That&#8217;s because your old phone&#8217;s <strong>small memory and graphics card<\/strong> aren&#8217;t properly equipped for the task. Luckily for you, with one of the improvements in iOS 7.0.3, you&#8217;ll now be able to use a simple trick to speed things up.<\/p>\n<p><!--[\/lead]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[materials]--><\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re using an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, you&#8217;ll be able to <strong>nix the parallax effect<\/strong> introduced in iOS 7. The parallax effect uses your phone&#8217;s built-in accelerometer to give the icons a 2D impression of depth. If you disable this effect, you&#8217;ll put less stress on your phone&#8217;s already maxed-out resources, helping it run more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To disable parallax:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--[\/materials]--><\/p>\n<p><!--[body]--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open <strong>Settings<\/strong> and navigate to the <strong>General<\/strong> section.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll down to <strong>Accessibility<\/strong> and find the <strong>Reduce Motion<\/strong> option.<\/li>\n<li>Once you find the option, <strong>enable it<\/strong>, thus shutting off the movement<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below to see these steps in action: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--[\/body]--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>\nDefault player\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- By use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C  found at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/.  --><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!--  This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. 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