If you’re like most people, you probably use your iPhone to access the internet and other online resources. But if you’re like me, you also use it to open 500 tabs at once. And if that’s not enough, you also have to worry about how your phone is going to handle 500 tabs open at the same time. Luckily, there are a few tricks that can help speed up your iPhone opening process. Here are three tips:
- Use a fast browser: If you’re using a slow browser like Chrome or Firefox, opening 500 tabs will likely slow down your iPhone opening speed. By using a fast browser like Safari or Opera, you can reduce the number of times your phone has to search for and open tabs.
- Optimize your browsing experience: One way to speed up your iPhone opening process is by optimizing your browsing experience. By optimizing your web browser for faster loading times, you can reduce the amount of time it takes for your iPhone to find and open tabs. This can be done by setting preferences in your web browser, or by using an app that specializes in optimizing web browsing experiences for iPhones.
- Use an app with multiple tabbed windows: Another way to speed up iPhone opening is by using an app with multiple tabbed windows. This way, instead of having one large window where all of your tabs are displayed, each tab will be displayed in its own window within the app. This will make it easier for you to select and open a tab without having to scroll through all of them.
There are, in fact, things that can slow down your phone. A really old and worn battery can make a phone feel sluggish. Updating an older phone to a current release of iOS can really show you how long in the tooth the hardware has become. Stuffing your phone’s storage full of unused apps and undeleted blurry photos will do the trick, too.
But among the many legitimate things that will slow down a phone’s performance, you don’t need to worry that your massive collection of tabs in Safari is contributing to the crunch.
Safari tabs simply don’t slow the iPhone down. In fact, you can have 500 tabs open, and it has zero performance impact. And 500 more if you make a new group. And 500 more if you use private browsing. And 500 more if you make another group.
In fact, we’ve made group after group after group, maxed out at 500 tabs each, and frankly, we got tired of making the groups. Whether we had 50 tabs or 5,000 tabs in Safari for iPhone, there was simply no difference in performance.
Ultimately the experiment ended up being less about whether or not we could tank the phone’s performance with Safari tabs and more about whether or not we had the endurance to open the, seemingly, five million tabs it would take to do so.
If you dislike the clutter and it feels like your mental burden is lighter if the tabs in your phone’s browser are wiped away, by all means, feel free to tidy up. We have a bunch of great tab management tips to help you close them all, close them on a schedule, and more.
But in the same breath, if you want to live fast and free never closing a single tab (or app either, for that matter) you should do so happily because it will never slow your phone down.