# App has slowed to a crawl
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [January 1, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065 "2020-01-01T14:06:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bobbyj12](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bobbyj12)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2020, 2:06pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/1 "2020-01-01T14:06:44Z")
Good day. Well, this is disappointing. My app has slowed to a crawl and it literally takes 4 minutes to make a change to a block. What can I do to alleviate this?
I have currently 21 switches in the app and I plan on adding a lot more switches and features. At this pace I will finish by the end of this year.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2020, 2:17pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/2 "2020-01-01T14:17:56Z")
Hi @bobbyj12, happy new year! 🎉
I responded to your question about switches yesterday with this sample app that I built for you, did you get a chance to look at it?
> [@Any Component tutorials](http://community.thunkable.com/t/any-component-tutorials/386382/4):
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> Hey @bobbyj12 wave Did you ask a question about this last week? I made [a demo app here], but there was a little bit of “prep work” needed to get everything set up properly.([https://x.thunkable.com/copy/7961b670d2eb85a2b4784373c0bc0585](https://x.thunkable.com/copy/7961b670d2eb85a2b4784373c0bc0585)) Once that was done it worked fine.
You should be able to refactor your app with the `Any Component` blocks to dramatically reduce your block count.
Just out of curiosity, what sort of app pare you building that requires so many switches?
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### Author:  [@bobbyj12](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bobbyj12)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2020, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/3 "2020-01-01T14:39:35Z")
Thanks, @domhnallohanlon for helping. I did look at it and it am still having problems. My app is a checklist of this to do. There will about 5 categories and each category will have 15 to 25 items in the list. Each item with have a switch so the person knows if they did the work. I’m able to use the Any Component for switches to add the value to the real time database but I am unable to retrieve it and display the value on the switch (i.e. Switch is on, The tint is red, the thumb is green.) When I open the app, app switches are off and grey. I have been rattling my brain on this for a while. I’m its a simple fix that I just cant figure out.
Here is a screen print of the user facing page
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### Author:  [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2020, 4:48pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/4 "2020-01-01T16:48:30Z")
Aha - that makes sense.
What a great idea for an app.
Can I recommend that you use a [cloud variable](https://docs.thunkable.com/variables) instead though?
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### Author:  [@bobbyj12](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bobbyj12)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2020, 8:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/6 "2020-01-01T20:16:54Z")
That looks easy. I put these block together but still get the same result. Any suggestions PLease?
Here is the screen
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### Author:  [@bobbyj12](https://community.thunkable.com/u/bobbyj12)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/8 "2020-01-02T00:39:35Z")
I think I might have cracked the code. When I save the value of a switch to Real time db, the input does not say “Switch1”. The field is a long combination of number and letters. If I change the “Any Switch” block from “Component” to “Switch1” if works perfectly. Somehow, I need to work around this so I don’t have blocks for each switch.
See attached.
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### Author:  [@actech](https://community.thunkable.com/u/actech)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2020, 7:44am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/9 "2020-01-03T07:44:53Z")
Hi,
Why make a set of switches if you can make a list with checkboxes?
See scrLists in [https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5d70f93f8a62b4079eedaff2/project/properties/designer/](https://x.thunkable.com/projects/5d70f93f8a62b4079eedaff2/project/properties/designer/)
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 11:46am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/app-has-slowed-to-a-crawl/388065/10 "2024-11-08T11:46:13Z")