This incredible glitch makes your iPhone work faster

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Antonio Villas-Boas/Tech Insider

There's a harmless glitch in iOS that turns off the animation effects when you open and close your apps, which makes your iPhone feel like it's running a lot faster.

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This glitch was first discovered by Reddit user vista980622, but we first saw this trick on 9to5Mac.

Without the glitch, there's still a way to limit the phone's animations through its settings (just turn on Reduce Motion in your iPhone's Accessibility settings), but that only makes a slight difference to your phone's speed. This glitch removes those animations entirely, which otherwise slow down the interactions between you and your iPhone.

Check out how to activate the glitch:

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See that fade-in/fade-out effect when you open and close apps? It's slow and some of you might not like that. I don't.

 

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This glitch turns off those silly effects and lets you instantly open and close apps. Like this!

 

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To activate this glitch, first visit your iPhone's Settings.

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Then tap Accessibility.

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Then tap Assistive Touch.

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And turn Assistive Touch to the green on position. A little icon will appear.

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Tap and hold the icon, and drag it down to the bottom right of your iPhone's display.

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Then, go back to your home screen. The Assistive Touch icon will still be there on the bottom right.

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Now, swipe down from the middle of your screen to bring up Spotlight Search. As soon as the Assistive Touch icon moves up above the keyboard, tap the middle of the screen to close Spotlight Search. Keep doing that until you see Spotlight Search appearing faster than before.

 

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And there you have it! Your apps will now open and close without any animations to slow you down! The glitch will deactivate when you turn your iPhone off, but you can just follow the steps above again to reactivate it.

 

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Check out 9to5Mac's whole video here:

 

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