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Your old phone is slower because its battery can no longer hold as much charge.
by baddox 6y ago
Your old phone is slower because its battery can no longer hold as much charge.
- adamredwoods 6y agoThen I should be allowed to replace my battery.
- chorsestudios 6y agoYou are, for a fee.
- bouke 6y agoYou can.
- cerberusss 6y agoA store in my city (in The Netherlands) replaces an 6S battery for EUR. 39 (US$ 44). They offer a 1 year guarantee. You can do some grocery shopping while they replace it.
- paulcarroty 6y agoReplacing battery in 6S is trivial, no dancing with dryer like 8/XR.
- Spartan-S63 6y agoRather it's because it can't supply the same voltage it could when it was new necessitating down-clocking of the CPU and thus the performance slowdown.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIn my case, I replaced the battery four months ago. It's not just the battery. Newer OS's are just slower.
- nicoburns 6y agoI've just bought an iPhone 6S second hand with a new battery. I don't know how fast they used to be, but I've not noticed anything being slow. Animations are silky smooth, and app loading times seem fast too.
- Wowfunhappy 6y ago> I don't know how fast they used to be. That's the problem. :) I'm also on a 6S and Apple has kept it quite speedy! But, I was playing with a 2016 iPhone SE on iOS 9 about a year ago, and I could instantly tell it was snappier than my 6S on iOS 12.
- regera 6y agoI want to say it's beyond "usable". I am using iPhone SE from 2016 - it works flawlessly imo on iOS 13.5.1
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoAgreed, I tweaked the wording in my post.
- jaywalk 6y agoThe iPhone SE had the same CPU, GPU and RAM as the 6S but had far fewer pixels to deal with. That was probably more of a contributor to the snappiness than the iOS version.
- wenc 6y ago> Newer OS's are just slower. In the iOS world, not generally so. Things generally get faster and more optimized (cruft gets removed) in the iOS world (barring some anomalies like iOS 13, but it's gotten back on track).
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoiOS 7, 11, and 13 are definitely slower than their respective immediate predecessors. iOS 9 and 12 are definitely the opposite. But while it's hard to prove definitively—largely because highly-out-of-date iOS devices are so rare in the wild—I would posit that even though 12 was faster than 11, 9 and 10 were both faster than 12. That's definitely what I saw in a brief iOS 9 experience I mentioned elsewhere in this thread. It's the old frog-in-boiling-water analogy. If it happens slowly, you don't notice.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoWhat you mean to say is that the battery can lo longer deliver as much power. Performance capability is reduced if the battery is worn, see iOS Settings > Battery > Battery Health.
- josefresco 6y agoNegative. The battery on my iPhone 6 was awesome and that phone was slow as molasses. Just switching to a family member's 6S was a dramatic improvement.
- Jtsummers 6y agoOnly because I'm involved in this today and have apparently decided to not work on other things while I wait to go to the doctor: 6 -> 6S was a 450MHz clock speed (1.4GHz -> 1.85GHz) jump and doubled the RAM from 1GB to 2GB. That's a significant step up in capabilities. You probably noticed snappier application starts and transitions (more RAM, more apps can stay up at a time, or at least part of them so they start or seem to start faster) and better general performance (that 32% clock speed jump).