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If your iPhone could use a little speed boost, having been put through the wringer, then you’re in the right place.

There’s a simple trick that will only take a minute, and that can really get your iPhone back up to speed, per CNET.

Besides managing your iPhone’s storage to help make things work more smoothly, you can also try clearing your phone’s cache.

When you visit a website, your phone has to download information like photos, banners, and other data.

To make this process as fast as possible, internet browsers will make retrieving that data easier by storing some of the data in a cache.

This is convenient, sure, until your browser’s cache builds up and becomes outdated, making the data being retrieved a bad match for the data actually being used on the website.

Ultimately, this will make your phone’s speed slow down and the website formats can go wonky.

Clearing your cache might just be the answer here, boosting your browser by fixing any loading errors and freeing up some storage space.

There is a catch. Clearing your cache will sign you out of sites you’re currently logged into, so make sure you keep your passwords recorded safely so that you can refer back to them easily when you need to log in to everything again.

Let’s move on to the cache clearing, based on which browser you use:

Clearing your iPhone cache in Safari

Safari is the default browser for most iPhone users, and starting with iOS 11, clearing your cache will affect all devices signed into your iCloud account.

So keep those passwords handy before taking these steps:

1. Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
2. Select Safari from the list of apps.
3. Scroll down and select Clear History and Website Data.
4. Confirm your selection in the popup box.

Clearing your iPhone cache in Chrome

1. Open the Chrome app.
2. Select the three dots in the bottom right to open more options.
3. Scroll down and select Settings.
4. Select Privacy in the next menu.
5. Then select Clear Browsing Data to open up one last menu.
6. Select the intended time range at the top of the menu (anywhere from ‘Last Hour’ to ‘All Time’).
7. Make sure that Cookies, Site Data is selected, along with Cached Images and Files. Finally, hit Clear Browsing Data at the bottom of the screen.

Clearing your iPhone cache in Firefox

1. Click the hamburger menu in the bottom right corner to open up more options.
2. Select Privacy in the next menu.
3. Select Settings at the bottom of that menu.
4. Select Data Management.
5. You can select Website Data to clear data for individual sites or select Clear Private Data at the bottom of the screen to clear data from all selected fields.

How many websites you visit and how often will determine how often you may need to clear your cache, but your browser will generally build up a cache large enough to affect your phone’s speed after every month or two.

So get clearing, and enjoy a little speed boost once you’re done.

[source:cnet]