Apple slowing down "old" iPhones

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Apple acknowledges its OS updates slow down older phones, BUT is intended to help performance of declining batteries.

Pretty much everyone else believes they're just trying to mess up your phone so you buy a new iPhone.

LR verdict?

 

[TarponSpringsNole]

Probably a bit of both I reckon.

 

[DanC78]

Of course they are trying to push off old and on to new.

What do they consider old....i5

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

Of course they are trying to push off old and on to new.

What do they consider old....i5

6, 6S, SE and 7. Not exactly Model Ts.

 

[seminole97]

Apple acknowledges its OS updates slow down older phones, BUT is intended to help performance of declining batteries.

Pretty much everyone else believes they're just trying to mess up your phone so you buy a new iPhone.

LR verdict?

If they’d let you roll back to earlier versions I would care a lot less.

I experienced something similar with an iPad 2 that slowed to a crawl with I think iOS 8. Touching an icon introduced a 10-15 sec delay before something happened. Safari was absolutely awful. ‘No biggie, let me just roll this back...’
Not an option.
Duly noted.

 

[DanC78]

6, 6S, SE and 7. Not exactly Model Ts.

I have a 7...haven’t noticed a lack in performance....yet.

In another topic; This message board has been giving me issues as of late. Keeps kicking to home page when I click an icon up top or try to select something within the body of my post. Been doing this for a few weeks now...figginnanniying.

 

[funksouljon]

I noticed the 6 started getting slow about the time the July? update installed.

 

[CC0492]

I have an i5 model. It's not really slower, but the battery will suddenly crash at times when it says it still has between 30%-40% left. But then the next day I can go down to 8% with it still working, so.........

 

[funksouljon]

I have an i5 model. It's not really slower, but the battery will suddenly crash at times when it says it still has between 30%-40% left. But then the next day I can go down to 8% with it still working, so.........

Now that you say that, my 6 started doing that this summer.

 

[seminole97]

In another topic; This message board has been giving me issues as of late. Keeps kicking to home page when I click an icon up top or try to select something within the body of my post. Been doing this for a few weeks now...figginnanniying.

Experienced the same thing. It’s as if the clickable area of that Warchant banner extends below the visible portion of the banner image.

 

[NoleFan2U]

Androids rock! Just saying.

My daughter (16, no pics allowed) has an Iphone and I have felt they did this for years. Obviously they do it so you have to buy the newer version.

 

[RTM58]

#NetNeutrality
(I know it's not the same)

 

[TexSkills]

Androids rock! Just saying.

Agreed. My last 4 phones have all been Samsung Galaxy variants (Notes, S7 Edge) and I've always been happy with them.

Use to have to carry an iPhone 6+ for work and Androids have an advantage in a lot of native features.

 

[seminole97]

I have an i5 model. It's not really slower, but the battery will suddenly crash at times when it says it still has between 30%-40% left. But then the next day I can go down to 8% with it still working, so.........

It’s an issue with high draws on an old, low battery:

Link

 

[FSUTribe76]

Apple acknowledges its OS updates slow down older phones, BUT is intended to help performance of declining batteries.

Pretty much everyone else believes they're just trying to mess up your phone so you buy a new iPhone.

LR verdict?

I love Apple. I’ve got an iPhone 8 Plus (as does my wife), the smaller iPad Pro, an IPod Nano 7th Gen and my wife has an Apple Watch 2. However....they ARE evil.

But I can love the evil empire as well. It’s just so much smoother and safer than the alternatives.

 

[SoddyNole]

But iPhones have such cool commercials.

 

[NolesOnTop]

It always seemed to me that Cell phones had a magical way of dying right at the point where the contract would allow you to get a new one. In any event, I have no doubt they change the operating systems in a way that obsoletes older phones. We had to get my wife a new phone last year because the iPhone 4s would not accept the newest OS updates. That caused it to stop ringing and made is so my wife could not receive e-mails on her phone. The phone was perfectly fine for her. She does not begin to use the features of the newest phone.

 

[Urban Cryer]

So every time there is a new model out they come out with a series of updates (obviously). If you have a model that's a few back than the current one I wouldn't recommend updating it, it's that simple.

 

[ReliableOstrich]

Whether intentional or not, newer OS will require more processing power, which in turn will consume more battery.

As your phone ages the battery deteriorates and as such when you install a new OS, the result is a device slowed down by an outdated processor that dies more quickly due to an older and overburdened battery.

My rule of thumb: No OS updates after the 18 month mark of device launch. I've got a iPhone 6s and will not be installing iOS 11. The new emojis aren't worth the frustration of a slower device and the inevitable acceptance that I was knowingly duped and have to fork over $800 for a basically identical device just so I can do what I used to do.

 

[ncnole1975]

I have a 7...haven’t noticed a lack in performance....yet.

In another topic; This message board has been giving me issues as of late. Keeps kicking to home page when I click an icon up top or try to select something within the body of my post. Been doing this for a few weeks now...figginnanniying.

I never update the OS once new hardware is out. It always goes south. I have a 7 and haven't updated in months. I won't either until I'm eligible for a new one