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I'm in the same boat - I have a 6+ 128gb and it's starting to lag with the most recent iOS. Apple is just going to do Apple things and intentionally slow it dow
by NDizzle 9y ago
I'm in the same boat - I have a 6+ 128gb and it's starting to lag with the most recent iOS. Apple is just going to do Apple things and intentionally slow it down.
I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet. I was thinking of buying a refurb 6s+ (I really want a 3.5mm jack) and send it off to apple to refresh the battery and live with that for another 2 years.
The 7 and 8 aren't that interesting in the same way that I haven't updated my late 2013 15" Retina MacBook Pro. If they fix their stupid mistakes (touch bar, deleting the 3.5mm jack) I'll upgrade. Otherwise I'll hold off until the products die and then I'll buy something from their competitors.
- geophile 9y agoHow will a refurb 6s help with speed? I assume the infamous slowdown-on-new-OS is due to the new OS being optimized for new hardware, not an old phone "wearing out".
- NDizzle 9y agoIt's my (incorrect?) assumption that going from a 6 to a 6s would buy me another year worth of acceptable iOS speed. My best option may be to deal with the performance and get my 6+ refreshed by Apple. Thinking about it, I haven't added a new "must use" app in some time. Maybe refreshing my 6+ is the way to go.
- mikeash 9y agoThe 6s is a lot faster than the 6.
- hhiweiewie8 9y ago6s doubled RAM from 1GB to 2GB. The CPU was almost twice the performance as well. I was rather annoyed by how smooth my wife's 6s was when she upgraded versus my (then) year old 6 Plus FWIW, my current iPhone SE is a 6s with a lesser camera, 4" screen, no 3D Touch, but it's just as zippy and smooth as my wife's 6s (which is buttery smooth with iOS 11). In fact some benchmarks show the SE performing better than a 6s or 7 in certain cases. Fewer fancy hardware bits to schedule work for, maybe?