You do not want to grab a new mobile phone, however you have the feeling that your XIAOMI Mi 8 is starting to lose power, or to slow down even for unimportant tasks. It is possible, it is unfortunately linked to all the data that passes through your mobile phone. We will precisely, in this guide, help you solve this problem by explaining to you how to make your XIAOMI Mi 8 faster?

In this context, we will first of all explain the causes of the slowness of your XIAOMI Mi 8, as a result, you will be able to more easily understand the decisions that we are going to take to remedy it and avoid the small errors that may to slow down your mobile phone again in the event that you are not paying attention. To finish, we are going to show you some tips, which together will be enough to restore all the initial power of your XIAOMI Mi 8 and thus make it faster.

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What makes my XIAOMI Mi 8 slow?

This is annoyingly a question that many people ask themselves ... Why does a XIAOMI Mi 8 slow down or get slow? It is linked to several elements, as we explained to you just before, it is first of all due to the quantity of data which passes and which is recorded on your mobile phone. The latter goes, the more the internal memory will be overloaded, losing speed and performance. It is consequently one of the first causes, to keep a healthy mobile phone and not to keep many applications on.

A second explanation, in the event that your XIAOMI Mi 8 ages, is the fact that applications and operating system is not necessarily the latest version , and therefore, is not going to be optimized for the use you are going to have of it. Finally, it can also happen that you have a virus or malware on your XIAOMI Mi 8 without knowing it, however it is much less common and it affects secret agents more than everyone!

How can I improve the speed and performance of my XIAOMI Mi 8?

Now that we have quickly described to you the main causes that can cause a decrease in performance on the part of your mobile phone, it is time to show you the solutions that we believe are essential to put in place to make your XIAOMI Mi 8 faster and more efficient.

Disable visual animations of your XIAOMI Mi 8

First of the actions, and which is not very complicated to do, you have probably never noticed it, nevertheless, for more fluidity when you change screens, applications, pages, small visual animations are integrated to improve your user experience. However, they use a lot of energy and can slow down your XIAOMI Mi 8, so we advise you to speed up deactivating them:

  • Go to the settings of your mobile phone
  • Activate the "Developer options"
  • In the "Systems" settings turn off or decrease the speed to x 0. 5 of "Transitions animation scale", "Animation duration scale" and "Window animation scale"

Clear the cache of your XIAOMI Mi 8

Second step to set up, your XIAOMI Mi 8 will keep in memory, called “Cache”, a quantity of data to give you the possibility of accessing it quickly without having to download it again. Unfortunately, over time this memory may be full and will slow down your mobile phone, it is therefore relevant to empty it periodically to improve the speed of your XIAOMI Mi 8. Go through the menu Device maintenance to clear the cache of all applications.

Empty the RAM of your XIAOMI Mi 8

Same principle as for the cache, except that the function of the RAM is to keep unused applications in the background so that you can open them again at any time and get back to where you left off very quickly. Your XIAOMI Mi 8 is probably powerful enough to open them quickly and we advise you, in the event that you do not use it quickly to close all the applications that are running in the background through your task manager.

Update your XIAOMI Mi 8

Penultimate measure to be carried out on your XIAOMI Mi 8. We spoke to you a little about it in the explanations of slowdowns on a mobile phone, when your operating system or your applications are too old, they are no longer optimized for the missions that they are planned to achieve, this will result in a significant latency of a XIAOMI Mi 8. To reduce it, we advise you to keep the applications and the operating system of your XIAOMI Mi 8 up to date as much as possible.

Reset your XIAOMI Mi 8

Finally, in the event that you feel that your XIAOMI Mi 8 is too slow, that it has really lost a lot of power, it may be overloaded, you may have a virus ... The most effective solution, however also the more radical to improve the performance of your smartphone will be to reset your XIAOMI Mi 8. This measurement goes reset your mobile phone to factory settings. Be careful, however, this will erase all the data stored on it, so remember to make a backup before doing so.

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