It’s not regular app load times where I notice it. It’s things like Safari’s url bar autocomplete responding slower and slower with each update. Like noticeable

It’s not regular app load times where I notice it. It’s things like Safari’s url bar autocomplete responding slower and slower with each update. Like noticeable lag with each keystroke. It doesn’t matter which default search engine is set either as I’ve tried various things to improve the situation giving the OS / Apple-built apps the benefit of the doubt. It’s things like the how picking an image in Photos and directing it to share as an SMS or email gets slower with each update. Like many seconds before the SMS composer shows up. And so on and so on... Speaking of wives, mine has the same slowdowns as me. It happens on our iPads too. We like being on the same OS version so we have the same features and emojis and such. We have to let each other know when one of us gets tricked again into updating so the other can too. It’s a source of much frustration for us. Whether it’s nefarious overtly planned obsolescence or just the “accidental” lazy kind where they put less effort into supporting older hardware, the effect is the same and it sucks. I should get to choose to upgrade. Period.