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iOS 10.3.3 performance
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Umm, but why? You're phone is probably crying to be reset. You are also probably missing 4-5GB of space as its being used for system cache by now. I restart my phone every 72 hours. Even those short bursts give me 200+ MB back per restart.
Interesting, I restart my iPhone (and iPad) about once a month (I use to do this every week). I will watch my memory usage. By the way, many of my collegues and friends never restart their iPhone.
To me, iPhones are mini-computers, because they essentially are. Leaving a computer on 24/7 365 doesn't do it any good. Sometimes devices just need to be restarted. Clears out RAM and anything that is cached. I restart my iMac and MBA about every 7-10 days. I get a good 1-2GB back with each reboot because anything that was cached is cleared up.
Hey, more power to you. I think my OCD would drive me insane. I feel like I would be making up performance issues in my head in order to get me to reboot the device. 100 days is a long, long time.
Nice Buddy
Mines on iPhone 6 84 days uptime iPhone 6 Plus 84 days uptime iPad Air 2 84 days uptime all running on iOS 10.3.1
My asus router been on for 650 days today so close to two years without a reboot.
My Laptop been online for 230 days.
My Samsung Galaxy s7 with 3045 Hours uptime.
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Thanks for the advice i have my iphone 6s still on 9.3.5 and was wondering about finally upgrading to ios 10 using 10.3.3.....guess not...
However imo ios 10.3.3 is much better vs ios 10.3.2 regarding battery life. Obviously i have upgraded the rest of my devices.
You cannot listen to that advice. They provided absolutely zero reason why not to upgrade. My Air 2 is running great on 10.3.3, that device shipped with iOS 8. 6s shipped with iOS 9. You are more than fine upgrading.
The security updates that you are missing are extremely vital. There have been dozens of fixes over the year.
Wow and no security updates on any of those either. ASUS router 2 yrs without an update? Really? And laptop almost a year. Astonished, not for the up time although that is pretty awesome but for the lack of general maintenance for your electronics.
I updated from 10.3.2 to 10.3.3 and the only two differences I noticed so far were that the battery drains a bit quicker and the wifi signal is weaker on my phone. I reset all settings twice, including network settings so hopefully that fixes the battery issue but the wifi signal is still weaker. Where I had great signal on 10.3.2 I'm now dropping wifi. It seems like almost every time I update things get worse instead of better. Makes me not even wanna update. Hopefully a backup-restore thru iTunes will help.
Please let us know if resetting all settings does help the battery issue. I'm not eager to try it, as it's a PITA to rebuild my settings (and I don't really understand how an update could cause a settings-related battery issue)... thx
When you say restart do you just mean turned off and back on or hard restarted or reset?
If the latter, how do you exactly do that?
I restored my iPhone 7 fresh with this update and perfmance seems essentially equal maybe slightly smoother (could be placebo) battery life on the other hand has jumped back to what I expect from it. After 2 days of use I ended 50% vs before I was ending 25-30%
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So these are these discussions about updating sw or not...
So I will try to write some reasons to update or not...
Battery - in iOS 10 was/is? bug (was almost eliminated with iOS 10.2.1), which turns off device itself with 20% battery... (It is almost fixed, fortunatelly, but on my iPhone 6S the battery is still decreasing unequally)... And in iOS 10 they added battery saving features, power of iPhone is lower with 20% battery than with 100%... With iOS 9 it was the same...
About security reasons... Yes, agree that it is safer to use latest version of iOS... But how many people without JB has been hacked? How many people know where the issue was and can misuse it? (Apple publishes where issues are only very generaly)
So, yes, it is safer but by how much?
And there are another areas, where is iOS 9 better than iOS 10...
Sort by app feature - notifications
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I think much better design (especially on iPads) (control center, notification center - widgets, alarm app)
On the other hand, iOS 10 has faster and more fluid animations (on Air 2 about the same, but better on iPad mini 2)
I know, for many people these are not really important features and areas, but for some (including me) it was much better designed in iOS 9...
So I only wanted to write some reasons, why I think is better to stay on iOS 9, to get you know, that there are good reasons to not update every time and get you know that other side is not only hater side but has some arguments too...
But yes, iOS 10 is really good too and I can recommend updating to iOS 10 too... Only above I wrote reasons for the other possibilty...