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My iPhone 6S+ is still running super smooth. Maybe because I'm not a huge photography buff or mobile gamer, but each year I wait to see something that will fina
by ab-dm 6y ago
My iPhone 6S+ is still running super smooth. Maybe because I'm not a huge photography buff or mobile gamer, but each year I wait to see something that will finally make me buy a new one, but each year I just don't see it.
I don't know exactly what I'm waiting for, but this wasn't really it.
(Also enjoying using one of the last TouchID iPhones during Covid 19)
- asdojasdosadsa 6y agoThis is pretty much my exact situation. The new iPhones have been so underwhelming and so highly priced that I haven't felt the need or want to upgrade. Now previously this year, I dropped my phone and the glass broke - but it still works. So I am on the verge of upgrading, but iPhone 12 still doesn't really... make me want to upgrade - if I can put it like that. So I am rolling with a cracked screen iPhone 6S+ until I can find the motivation to upgrade. Maybe my battery life is becoming one and the problem with charging.
- gkanai 6y agowhy not just have the glass replaced?
- asdojasdosadsa 6y agoI was about to, but I have some issues with battery life and charger plug, so it would be cheaper to buy a lower end iPhone (like the 12 mini) - so I am in a slight dilemma now. Most likely if this phones battery gets any worse, I will upgrade to the new iPhone 12 max (or current flag ship) and hope it will last years to come. My iPhone is I think now 5 years old, where the average phone life seems to be 2-3 years, so I am quite happy with the quality and don't mind the upgrade, when it is necessary edit: For reference, replacing the glass is 200€
- bartvk 6y agoHave you checked whether replacing the screen yourself is cheaper? As an example, I had an iPhone SE with a broken home button. Repairing it would cost 60 euros, which wouldn't be worth it. On the other hand, a single replacement home button was only 8 euros, and it included the tools. It worked.
- akg_67 6y agoI had issues with intermittent charging of 6S so I upgraded to 2nd gen SE. I didn’t want larger screen so 11 wasn’t the option. I personally don’t like SE. The Touch ID is crap, it is not an actual button that presses so touching or pressing button doesn’t wake phone up. I have to pick up the phone to wake it.
- gmac 6y agoI have the new SE and it works as advertised (like a faster 8). Pressing the ‘button’ definitely wakes mine.
- kall 6y agoIn terms of unreliable charging, maybe you have already done it but: clean the lightning port. They did it at the apple store for an unrelated repair and all my issues went away. A year later i even went back and had them do only that because I couldn‘t find a good tool to do it myself.
- donw 6y agoSame here. I like the improved camera, and the poor man's LIDAR would put me over the line to buy as I could totally use that for 3D mapping, but otherwise, a new phone just doesn't give me much. Recently, since us in Massively Lucky Tech World mostly work from home now, I've taken to leaving my phone in the bedroom and just wearing my smartwatch for 2FA stuff... and it's made my life better. The compulsion to look at my Sadness Rectangle has been fading quite rapidly, I'm more focused on whatever my task-at-hand happens to be, and I'm spending more of my break time doing stuff that I want to do for me: reading one of my books, writing stuff, etc.
- SiVal 6y agoIt does often seem that the new feature causing people to upgrade more than any other is that the new model hasn't yet been dropped--parking lot, toilet, etc. #2 is battery. "We think you'll find the new iPhone has been dropped less than any iPhone we've ever made and has a newer battery...."
- noisy_boy 6y agoFor all the talk about saving carbon by skipping on headphones/charger, it is quite telling that if Apple (and other manufacturers too) wanted, they could have just made these two parts easily replaceable (batteries used to be conveniently replaceable anyway) and saved a lot more wastage. Talk is cheap etc.
- jamil7 6y agoI can almost imagine Apple unveiling a replaceable battery in the future and claiming it as ‘innovation’. It’l never happen but I’m sure they’d market it that way.
- minot 6y agoI would think they can at least do it for MacBooks. I mean I distinctly remember my MacBook from 2006 had a removable battery and just removing the battery exposed the storage and the memory. The price we paid was a slightly thicker MacBook so no MacBook air but I doubt anyone was complaining.
- noisy_boy 6y agoI think it is the other way round; thinness makes gadgets look good and feel light but more importantly, it provides an excuse to make everything non-replaceable on that altar in the underlying aim of planned obsolescence. Plus once you make it thin, you can always say that we can't go back because that is the new normal and making it thicker will be a regression.
- tannhaeuser 6y agoHopefully, the arrival of the mini doesn't spell the end-of-life of the 7 and 8. Also, has anyone noted the cost for display/battery replacement on any recent phone (including Samsung) has skyrocketed, making it uneconomical?
- jamil7 6y agoI picked up a refurbished 8 a while ago, great size + touchID
- johnnycab 6y ago>So I am rolling with a cracked screen iPhone 6S+ until I can find the motivation to upgrade. I recently fixed a iPhone 6S+ for a friend, primarily with an aim to retrieve the photos and contacts. It wouldn't switch on, and had a broken screen. I ended up replacing the screen, battery and the charger port+headphone jack flex. It cost less than £40 in parts and some elbow grease; a superb compromise for a phone, which supports iOS 14 albeit it might not receive any future OS updates.
- fasteo 6y agoSame here. Broke my 6s and got ... another refurbished 6s for under 300 Euro. Working like a charm for 1 year now
- arvinsim 6y agoAnyone who has the X series and later should just wait for the next generation.
- trixie_ 6y agoI hope no one feels 'not needing to upgrade' is a 'bad thing' It's a testament to Apple's build quality and long term support that you don't need to upgrade. Samsung and Android are big on the half baked gimmicks and lackluster supports. Those phones you have to upgrade after a few years as they become more bloated than a Windows 95 machine bought from CompUSA.
- LMYahooTFY 6y ago> Samsung and Android are big on the half baked gimmicks and lackluster supports. Those phones you have to upgrade after a few years as they become more bloated than a Windows 95 machine bought from CompUSA. Am I missing something? What are the phones getting bloated with?
- kortilla 6y agoFor some time the software updates I received on my Note made it worse and worse. It’s like each major update was loaded with crap to run on the new hardware, making the experience terrible for the legacy phones.
- matuszeg 6y agoApple got sued and settle for the very thing you are describing https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphones-settlement/apple-to-pay-up-to-500-million-to-settle-u-s-lawsuit-over-slow-iphones-idUSKBN20P2E7 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-iphones-settlement/...
- DenseComet 6y agoIIRC wasn't Apple throttling the CPU because of battery degradation and to prevent sudden shutoffs even when it showed >25% battery? In my opinion, they should've said what they were doing, and made it clear that replacing the battery would fix the issue, but I'd rather have the battery status be accurate versus an always fast phone that shuts off randomly.
- 6y ago
- perfopt 6y agoMy 6plus became unusably slow and remained that way even after a battery replacement. So I upgraded to a iPhone 11 after 5.5 years with the 6Plus. I expect to keep my iPhone11 for 5-6 years at least.
- Karunamon 6y agoI encountered this as well, the fix for me was a full reflash (from DFU) without loading the backup from iCloud. Apparently whatever was slowing down the phone was getting loaded back in. I'm guessing there's some internal cache or database or something that is grinding to a halt over time.
- alecthomas 6y agoSame here, and my wife. That was one of my most infuriating phone experiences. The 6S was working perfectly fine then after some update it was basically useless. This was around the time of the underclocking debacle.
- bgorman 6y agoOLED's have vastly superior picture quality and are easier on the eyes. I would say this is kind of the "4.7 inch iPhone" moment where Apple is finally giving iPhone users an acceptable screen at an "affordable" price. OLED displays have been dominant on Android phones and high end iPhones for a reason - they are so much better in picture quality.
- brailsafe 6y agoNow if only app designers could get dark mode right, and not actually go full black mode.
- sharatvir 6y agoAs someone who only sparingly uses dark mode (almost exclusively at night), I kind of like full black mode. It’s much easier on the eyes at night. That said, I don’t even bother using dark mode in the day because full black mode makes everything harder to read.
- brailsafe 6y agoI suppose our experiences differ. I've tried using Pocket at night on an amoled screen and with dark mode, but because it's real black with bright white text I can't tolerate it for long. Would prefer a dark grey with white text, or even a navy blue with light yellow
- vondro 6y agoOLED's are very nice, but if the phone is used for example as a car navigation, then burn in might be an issue. I am very sensitive to it, to the point that I am very happy having an LCD screen.
- floatboth 6y agoModern OLEDs seem to have solved burn-in for the most part.
- nojvek 6y agoWhen they released the iphone SE last year I immediately bought it. It was the fastest processor, best quality camera in an Apple phone with Touch ID. I refuse to upgrade to an iPhone without Touch ID. Until my phone absolutely dies and there is no choice, then I may consider.
- mantap 6y agoI honestly feel a bit insulted that Apple is releasing a phone without Touch ID during COVID-19. They think I will gladly hand over large amounts of money for a phone that is highly inconvenient to unlock. When it became clear that people around the world were being legally required to cover their face, in some places at any time they left the house, Apple should have raced to equip the next iPhone with a fingerprint scanner. Apple didn't even apologise for not including one. I would have bought the phone with that feature. Maybe next year.
- rahoulb 6y agoI imagine that the hardware design was finalised a long time ago and even 9 months would be too short a time to figure out how to include it without reverting to the old design with smaller screens
- willis936 6y agoApple certainly doesn’t have the cash to afford design changes.
- oarsinsync 6y agoI don't think it's about having the cash, I think it's about whether or not it's a viable change to make. Given the lead times on iPhone hardware design, and the lead times on building the tooling and machinery to actually build that hardware, these things need to then get locked in well in advance. It was April before face masks started to be recommended in the USA, which is reasonably the earliest that Apple might be considering that pivot. Assuming Apple pivoted on the spot, consider the following: 1/ The full scale of the pandemic was even less known then than it is today 2/ China was still not operating normally, and it wasn't known if the lockdowns they imposed would prove to be a success or not, resulting in continued reduced availability of factories. The implication from your (very terse) comment is that the solution was just to throw money at the problem. The trade off in that scenario is that Apple is then effectively asking it's suppliers to put their employee's health at risk in order to increase their customer's convenience. We're dealing with a global pandemic. Some things can't be solved just by throwing money at the problem.
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoIt would be nice if they put Touch ID in the lock button like they did with the new iPad Air.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoI've had this feeling ever since the 3G / 4; all the improvements since the app store and mobile internet have been incremental, and sometimes even regressive (e.g. getting rid of the 3.5mm jack). Maybe I'm a luddite though. Anyway some years ago I got an iphone XR (via work) and it's just fine, it'll do me for the forseeable future. It was an incremental upgrade to my iphone 7 or 8, whichever it was.
- mxcrossb 6y agoI felt the same when I upgraded my 6 to an XR. But when you actually get your hands on the phone, you quickly notice the improvements. There’s no pressure to upgrade, but when you finally do I think you’ll be happy
- acd 6y agoWill not give up iPhone 6s it is the last iPhone version with a headphone jack. With iPhone 6s and earlier one can use Hifi headphones without carrying extra headphone jack dongle.
- kazinator 6y agoGoogle Pixel 4a is for you.