 <p>The are a couple of ways how to do it. I had the best experience with a Queue for the HttpRequests, which I pause during the scrolling process.</p> <p>I highly recommend this framework for that: <a href="http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/" rel="nofollow">http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/</a></p> <p>I also implemented an image cache, which only loads the images if there weren't in the cache.</p> <p>And the last tweak was to actually draw the images instead of using a high level uicomponent like the UIImageView</p>