These days our smartphones can do just about anything from texting, making calls, telling us the weather, posting to social media, and even giving us instructions on how to cook. To use these devices to their full potential we typically are downloading numerous apps. But can you have too many apps on your phone? 

For the most part downloading apps will not slow down your phone. To get to the point of making your smartphone, like Android or iPhone, slow down you'd have to download more than 500 apps, which seems unlikely for the average person. You may encounter a problem with the speed or battery life of your phone if you keep these apps open and running. Certain apps need access to the phone's RAM which will slow down your phone while running. Just remember to close out of apps when you're done using them. 

The question then arises if you really need all those apps. It's fun to download the newest, greatest thing but are you actually using it? Instead of searching through pages upon pages of apps, organize your apps based on folders.

When an app has remained unopened for a year, it's time for the app to go. Having de-clutter remorse? It's easy to restore apps. Just visit the app store on your iPhone and click apps not on this device. You can reinstall with the touch of a button. You can do the same thing on a Android in the "My Apps" section of the store.