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I agree, but it is true that newer updates dramatically slow down older hardware.
by dilap 9y ago
I agree, but it is true that newer updates dramatically slow down older hardware.
- aaronbrethorst 9y agoBackup, wipe, and reinstall.
- ben_w 9y agoI thought this had been tested recently and shown not true? A psychological illusion or something? I’ve never noticed any significant, let alone dramatic, speed change on any given device from iOS 3 on the original iPad onwards.
- majani 9y agoApps that represent light websites like Google and Facebook are now 300mb+. With such memory hogging updates, few people with older phones are going to update.
- ben_w 9y agoSize is not speed.
- mgkimsal 9y agoTrue, but... Older hardware has older chips (and possibly slower memory) so... a larger size alone would still likely have an actual processing speed impact, no? The newer OS and app versions are developed with chip/memory speed "XYZ" in mind, and that's the target they aim for. That the OS does run on older hardware is great, but if your memory size goes up 2-3 times for apps, I can not imagine that there's 0 speed impact.
- iainmerrick 9y agoAren't you confusing apps and the OS here? Apps are definitely bigger and slower, but that's separate from whether the OS is faster or slower. Anecdotally (and I agree) iOS 11 is slower than 10 for many of the same tasks -- things like switching apps, opening the camera, opening the keyboard.
- m_st 9y agoThey tested the performance of the hardware (CPU, GPU, etc), not of the APIs or updated apps. So the CPU and GPU of my iPhone 6 are just as fast as when they were released. But I can guarantee you that the camera app as well as a lot of third party apps aren't as fast as they were when I bought the phone.
- iainmerrick 9y agoI thought it was a myth too, but iOS 11 is undeniably much slower for me. And I don't understand why, as it doesn't seem like it adds many features. There's a new filesystem, but shouldn't that be faster, not slower?