It should be 120 when using it, even at the Lock Screen. Always on if that’s what mean absolutely is lower

I really like my Apple Watch for this. The app I use to guide my workouts also work on my watch so I can put it to the side and do my (gym) workouts and control my music. I think I can also download Spotify playlists to my watch and leave my phone at home (millennials and gen zs gasp)

Didn't work

Wait until 16.4. There have been lots of reports of the other storage being purged and regulated better now. I am currently on it, and my other before was 20gb. Now it’s currently at 4gb

The Lock Screen specifically doesn’t run at 120hz to save battery

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That's because it doesn't need to release memory at that time.

Try turning your phone off for 5 min then rebooting, always works for me to clear the cashes

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Which it doesn’t most of the time

Apple cares more about battery efficiency than a consistent 120hz refresh rate. Which is why it is more aggressive on iPhone than iPad when it comes to varying frame rates.

I've never gotten that method to work

Agreed.

Generally UI should be 120hz. At first third party apps had issues running some elements at 120 and Apple released some updated APIs. I’m not entirely sure but I believe, depending on how the app is made it’s not as simple as flipping a switch for 120hz.

As for your example with the Lock Screen. I’m sure Apple would like to run it at 120 but it’s a buggy mess right now.

You don’t need to. It’ll go down as space reduces automatically

Yeah I get that. But it's just odd to me that other animations in the UI do run at 120 Hz and others clearly do not. Running animations – especially ones interacted by finger input – should fall under high priority even in an adaptive setup in my opinion. I'd like to have an option for it to be adaptive to the point where in case the screen is static it lowers the framerate, but anytime there is motion going on it clocks to 120 Hz again. That's how it was on my Pixel atleast, and seems to be the case on the iPad too. Maybe it's allowed on the iPad since the battery can take more of a hit, I guess.

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It’s ProMotion not 120hz. The whole point of ProMotion is to be adaptive with the content on the screen. It’s not a 120hz locked frame rate. For third party apps they have to support the higher frame rate on their end or the phone won’t use the highest frame rate in the app.

Someone mentioned that this should be stickied to the top of the subreddit. They are right. I see this question like every day.

iOS 16 ruined by iphone. Bought myself an Android because I can't believe my perfectly working iphone x suddenly started lagging and touchscreen became so unresponsive. And i just changed its battery because it inflated for some reason .stay on 15 as long as you can

Nothing, its working as intended. Should your phone need space, some of that data will be deleted

Honestly, unless it’s causing issues for you, is to ignore that. It’s supposed to purge that stuff when you’re running low on system storage.

There are some Garmin watches that hold music and stream to your Bluetooth headphones. And Garmins are dedicated fitness watches, so it could serve you well in that department.

Is the image from Spotify in a locked screen?

Try this method:

https://reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/zzoqdj/psa_the_proper_way_to_delete_or_shrink_iphone/