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just like getting your car detailed giving your phone a deep cleaning can make it feel new all over again here are some simple ways to revive a tired device to make your phone easier to navigate and free up some storage space the best thing you can do is delete apps you don't use start by unbundling apps you buried in various folders you can shortcut this process by going to Settings General reset then reset home screen layout now that all your apps are in plain sight identify the ones you don't really use and delete them as a bonus you probably just reduce the number of annoying notifications you receive now that you removed all the non-essential apps it's time to reorganize them the best way to do this is to create folders where you can organize apps of the same type for instance you might have a folder for fitness smart home photography or games I also like to have an apple folder for all those apps that Apple doesn't let us delete the more free storage you have the less you'll have to worry about running out of space for apps photos or new podcast episodes take some time to audit your storage by going over to settings then general usage and manage storage in my case I have a good amount of storage used for podcast episodes I've already listened to to delete those just swipe and hit delete if photos are the culprit and you're willing to remove them from your phone connect it to a computer and back it up before clearing the space even after deleting a bunch of apps you might still be receiving notifications you don't want to make your phone feel a little less bloated head to settings then notifications here you can adjust your preferences that you only get the alerts you actually need you can turn off notifications completely with this option or just minimize them by taking them out of the notification center or you can hide them from the lockscreen if you did all of these things and your phone is still feeling laggy consider resetting it to factory settings after backing up your device go over to settings then general then reset and erase all content and settings for more tips like this head on over to cnet.com slash