Does your old iPhone become slower and battery last shorter after iOS 11 update
There are reports vouching that some bench mark tests show no slow down. An open secret that some hardware manufacturers will tune their device to perform better when they detect a bench mark app is running. There are a lot of ways Apple can trick the benchmark app.
It is not that Apple does anything: it just creates a new faster hardware and the old models look slower in comparisons. Combine that with the fact that batteries naturally last less with time, and you have the perfect scenario for what looks like planned obsolescence, yet it is just natural aging of old hardware.
Hardware that was running beautifully the morning before you upgraded and aged seconds after the upgrade. Yep, it sounds right. It is natural aging of old hardware then. But I wonder why my Google Phone is not aging at all for the past 4 years even after numerous upgrades and my Iphone 7 “aged” in 4 months.
All the new features you add have a perf cost. That will slow down hardware that was/is Fine in the morning before an upgrade. When your new features require more perf, they will burn the battery life faster. This isn’t apple being devious.
It will be interesting if someone can do a direct comparison of iOS 10 and iOS 11 on the same device, without using any special benchmark software. Just try to run some commonly used apps
There are plenty of YouTube videos
Do you know why Apple is the world’s best phone company? They build iPhones to last without much issues just for 2 years and then they start falling apart. They are so precise in this aspect that I believe this is the biggest engineering achievement they have yet.
Then Samsung beats them to it again, my S7 definitely aged only after a year :(
Iphones are built to just last for 2 years. If you dont upgrade then they may last more. But with upgrade there is no way that you will be able to get that work longer. Who will buy the newer faster hardware if the old one is not slow.
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Appreciate your help :)
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iOS 11.0 was a turd on my iPhone 6S, but 11.1 runs much better.
You guys are in tech but dont know that pushing the latest software on old hardware will cause slower performance? Lul
Did your older PC slow down after installing a newer version of windows? Obviously I wouldn’t know if Apple purposefully does this. I seriously doubt it considering the tight performance KPIs for older Apple hardware we have to meet for app updates as part of iOS. It’s just the reality of newer software. More threads competing for attention on a smaller number of slower cores.
I’m speculating Apple purposely slows down older models so that’s You upgrade.