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is your iPhone acting weird are you convinced the Apple is deliberately slowing down your phone to get you to buy a new one well maybe it's a conspiracy or maybe there's a simple fix I'm Donald Bell and I'm gonna show you some easy fixes to three common issues in iOS 7 let's start with slow phone syndrome your apps are opening slowly the screen is lagging it's like your phone is drunk in most cases the problem here is that your phone is running out of storage the best way to get a handle on this to go into settings general then usage and you'll get a rundown how much storage is left on your phone and what's taking up all that space and if you've never looked at this page I guarantee you you were in for a shock the things clogging up your phone are never what you expect for me it was podcasts without meaning to I had a year's worth of old hour-long podcast taking up room on my iPhone now I have it set to only keep the latest episode photos are another usual culprit so just sync them over to your computer and kick them off your phone if you see any other apps or games you no longer use just head back to the home screen give them a long press and tap the X to delete them you can always download them again at no cost now sometimes the phone is fine but your wireless connection is freaking out it won't connect to Wi-Fi or you have one bar of service an area that's usually fine here are two ways to shake some sense into your wireless connection first try turning on airplane mode for 30 seconds and give your antennas a rest you can quickly just do this by swiping up from the bottom and tapping the airplane button and then tapping it again to get back on line now if your phone is still not connecting to a wireless network go to Settings General reset and then reset network settings of course once that's done you'll need to enter your Wi-Fi login and password again to reconnect finally what do you do if the whole phone just freezes full lockup the touch screen won't work the buttons do nothing here's where you can invoke the iPhone Vulcan nerve pinch hold down the sleep button and the home button at the same time until the phone resets and you see the Apple logo you'll see your lockscreen after a minute and you should be back in business so there you go three fixes to some very common iPhone problems head over to cnet.com /l - for Dan Graziano's extended list of iOS troubleshooting tips including how to conserve your iPhone's battery life and tips for Android phone