Get mobile startup time to under half a second (especially “Workspace”).
I’ve recently started using Sync and am looking to jot down notes at the speed of thought.
Things I have tried
Lazy plugin loader
Lazy cached vault load
Current times
Obsidian start-up time breakdown
Operating system: ios 26.2 (Apple iPhone14,3)
Obsidian version: 1.11.4 (277)
API version: v1.11.4
Total startup time: 1,183ms
Initialization: 199ms
Vault (2,190 files): 220ms
Workspace (12 tabs, 11 deferred): 425ms
Core plugins: 79ms
Community plugins (24 active): 260ms
Periodic Notes (v0.0.17): 27ms
Outliner (v4.9.0): 26ms
Minimal Theme Settings (v8.2.1): 18ms
Style Settings (v1.0.9): 18ms
BRAT (v1.4.0): 11ms
Recent Files (v1.7.6): 10ms
Lazy Cached Vault Load (v0.0.6): 9ms
Lazy Plugin Loader (v1.0.21): 6ms
As you can see the Workspace is taking a long time. I only have 1 tab open. Can you please suggest ways to reduce this? Thank you.
It turns out I am experiencing 2500-3000ms app opening time (timed with a stopwatch from clicking the icon to being able to write), even though the startup time is reported as only just over 1000ms.
Other apps like browsers or the Drafts app will start up in around 1 second.
You can try turning off plugins or testing with a new vault to see whether this leads to any improvement.
As mentioned, when Obsidian is still running in the background, it opens much faster. So if I have opened Obsidian once in the morning, it is usually quite fast. I don’t know how iOS manages active apps in the background, though, but you maybe find a solution.