True. I guess it really depends on the standards one has. My mom uses an iPhone 6s and she is quite happy with it as she doesn't care much about smartphones but I cant use that device as the speed on my X has spoilt me. I find micro stutters and delays on it to be annoying and the home button delay even more annoying but different strokes for different folks I guess. The 6 and the 5s are unusable to me. I would rather use a flip phone than those snails.
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iOS 12 and planned obsolescence
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Well the iPhone X does have more powerful hardware than the 6S so that’ll account for some of the speed differences you notice. It’s like how Windows PCs slow to a crawl over time, it’s code cruft.
Still using an iPhone 4 and iPad 2 here.
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It’s all about your personal standards that apply to everything in life. The home button delay, or not, is personal as whether you believe or not there actually is a delay. I wouldn’t trade in my iPhone for a flip phone unless I needed a burner.
About Windows, it depends on how powerful the computer is and how much you take care of it. My Windows installation on one of my computers is from 2014, and its survived till now without any slowdown whatsoever. I didn't even renew my Norton subscription this time around as I want to see the performance impact it had so far. But I take extreme care of it though. I never installed that many third party apps on it and I don't use those registry cleaners and optimisers advertised throughout the web. i just run a CCleaner scan every now and then and Malwarebytes and some common sense and its all good. I absolutely love the downgrade option Windows provides as a bonus.
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There is a definite delay. Heck all I have to do is compare to my iPad Pro in front of me to notice it. Its one of those things which is impossible to "unnotice" once you notice it. I am OCD about this stuff.
What I do thank Apple for with iOS 11 is the realisation that updates aren't always a good thing This is the battery life on my iPad on iOS 10.3.3. Note it was on 40% and I charged it to 78%. Didn't use it much this week but absolutely amazing battery life even compared to my X and the 7 Plus which is pathetic. Battery health is at 96%. Unless Apple pulls of an iOS 12 in iOS 13, my iPhone X Plus will likely stay put on iOS 12. Apple's devices perform amazing only in the version they ship with.
Used to react the same on iOS 10. My iPad Air 2 has a slower home button than my iPad Pro.
Those youtube videos did not show any delay, above and beyond normal margin of error for humans trying to do some type of test.
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Could be you are remembering it incorrectly?
I doubt that would be the case, considering it will be over a year since we are coming across posts from him on the same thing again and again. Only Apple could resolve this for him and us, whether they slowed it down or they fixed a bug which made it look like the button was responding faster on iOS 10 than 11.
I think this topic is done and dusted. There is no point in going on in circles.
Both parties are not going to accept opposite views. Mods might as well lock it.
Both parties are not going to accept opposite views. Mods might as well lock it.
In the videos I am seeing a delay and a slowdown in newer iOS versions.
No I am not because I can replicate it right now in iOS 10 and not in 11. On my iPad Pro running iOS 10 when I enter an app and press the home button immediately after the app loads it quits instantly and that’s how it was on the 7 Plus except it was even better because it responded instantly no matter you quit after any amount of time.
On the iPad Air 2 on iOS 11, it makes no difference whether I press the home button instantly on loading or not, the delay is the same. The response time is the same as the home button iPhones. The iPad Pro is the only device I have which has the fastest home button. But if you press the home button after a long time the delay is there even on that. The 7 Plus on iOS 10 responded instantly no matter when you clicked the home button.
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Do you have any idea how long Apple can keep bug reports open for? The home button delay bug report I filed is still marked as open. I think they have forgotten about it. This might just end up being the longest open ticket ever lol
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There is absolutely nothing different across many years and threads about people reporting differing experiences with differing idevices. Your own YT videos even proved there was nothing out of the ordinary. Thus debunking the "planned" out of obsolescence. Not to mention this entire YT debacle shoulding 3 out of 5 things slower in ios 11 vs ios 7 and 2 things faster. Therefore the conclusion that ios 11 is categorically slower than ios 7 is incorrect. It's neither faster nor slower.
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I am seeing the exact opposite of what you are seeing in the videos thereby proving planned obsolescence.
Mostly because iOS 12 brings nothing to the table really except tweaks to iOS 11. Planned obsolescence is a thing if you like it or not.
That constitutes “proof” along the lines of this thread? The road to “proof” is a low bar indeed...
That's the excuse people make because Apple said they "focused" on performance this year. I see plenty of good, useful updates on this page. Not buying the "iOS 11.5" song.
https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-12-preview/features/
What excuse ? It’s the truth and I guess it hurts for you. iOS 12 is what iOS 11 should of been. No fanboy here
I'm a fanboy for preaching that Apple purposefully slows down their phones? Odd take.What excuse ? It’s the truth and I guess it hurts for you. iOS 12 is what iOS 11 should of been. No fanboy here
iOS 11 runs great for me. No issues on my end.
iOS 12 looks great as well. Lots of features I'm interested in. More-so this year than last.
Yup. Especially when benchmarks are being resorted to as proof. Probably by 2030 or so my computer won’t be able to run the next Windows version without slowdowns. But according to this thread since it will benchmark the same there is no slowdown. The computer will keep running at the same speed till it dies.
Of course it’s a thing. I would never buy a phone which takes 2 seconds to open a settings menu yet that’s how the iPhone 6 performs on iOS 11. If that’s how it performed on iOS 8 I would have returned the phone in the return window.
Dishonest post is dishonest, these times are Ars Technica times with the lowest common denominator (iPhone 5s).
Later versions of iOS 11 made it better.
No, it doesn’t take 2 seconds with iOS 11, considering the iPhone 6 is faster in the CPU and much faster in the SSD, in fact, it might be even faster than most Android today.
He’s right.
If you don’t like iOS, get Android.
You’ll love it, Android P is much better than iOS 12, here’s the list of what’s EVEN better on Android: