IOS 12 will it drop support for 1GB of ram iPhones ?

[itsmilo]

Doubt it. My old iPhone 6 still runs flawless on the latest iOS 11 beta if you ignore the little lag. Maybe you need to take a little more care of what crap you put on it like i restore mine every 2 months or so. I am also obsessed with checking settings to see what may drain battery

If i didnt have an iPhone 7+ and an iPad Pro 10.5 i probably would not even notice the lag

 

[Lerten]

(...) i restore mine every 2 months or so. I am also obsessed with checking settings to see what may drain battery

It kinda defeats the point of a system that just works and doesn't need to be actively managed by the users, no?

On topic - probably it will be another iOS 9-ish release when it comes to support (it has been reported that they are delaying some features to focus more on optimization and stability), therefore there is a high chance that it will run on the same devices as iOS 11.

 

[itsmilo]

Dunno. I love doing it. Its my kind of OCD. I do it on all my devices including my MacBook

 

[alex00100]

Guys, we all know iOS 12 will be about stability and performance, not new features, therefore there’s no reason why ios 12 will behave worse on 6 and 5s than 11 did, so I say 5s and 6 will both be supported.

 

[cynics]

I skimmed the thread but there are a few things that come to mind why 1gb RAM iOS devices might get iOS 12.

iOS 12 is rumored to focus on streamlining and reducing overhead. If that is indeed the case then older devices can potentially run as well as they do on iOS 11 (good or bad).

If they don't update 1gb RAM iOS devices AND the reason isn't arbitrary then that will mean iOS 12 REQUIRES more RAM to work properly. If that is the case 2 gb RAM devices will get hit hard. If iOS needs more RAM that will leave less RAM for apps to leverage. Software requiring more hardware isn't a good thing especially not in this case, unless it comes with some real substance....

The more devices running the latest version of iOS the more money Apple makes through their software services and ecosystem integration features. This is a very generic example but its just to illustrate a point, if my iPhone couldn't get updated to a version of iOS that supports Apple Music I would have their Apple Music service nor would I have a HomePod. On that note, preventing updates for a 1gb RAM limitation would cut out the:

iPhone 5S
iPhone 6
iPhone 6+
iPad Air
iPad Mini 2
iPad Mini 3

The dreaded planned systemic obsolescence! People tend to not care so much about updates (not updating is also planned obsolescence, even more so actually) as they do as the perceived performance of the device they use everyday. Some people in this thread are ok with the performance of the 5S and 6. If it wasn't updated then they would permanently be ok with the performance of their devices, can't have that!

I don't know if they will or not but there are reasons for them not too.

 

[Vivian125]

If they keep the 6 and 6+ they’ll keep the 5S. No difference in performance between these devices, I’ll even be bold enough to say the 5S performs better. iPhone 6 was the only iPhone I’ve sold after 3 months from release because it offered no improvement performance wise over the 5S

Not True, because if they depends on ram then the iPad 3 with 1GB of ram should have gotten the iOS 10 also.
It's depending on this Gigahertz or something like that. BOth iPhone 5/5S is clocked 300mhz hiigher than the iPad 3 even those 3 device shares the same ram.

 

[itsmilo]

iPhone 5 also didnt have to run a iPad sized retina display

 

[MrUNIMOG]

I don’t think Apple will dare drop support for the iPhone 6 at the same time as the iPhone 5s, but I’m curious to see how well the 6 and 6 Plus will handle iOS 12. Probably worse than the 5S on iOS 11.

They might actually drop them at the same time, but rather with the 13th major release in late 2019, not the 12th one this year.
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Not True, because if they depends on ram then the iPad 3 with 1GB of ram should have gotten the iOS 10 also.
It's depending on this Gigahertz or something like that. BOth iPhone 5/5S is clocked 300mhz hiigher than the iPad 3 even those 3 device shares the same ram.

You need to understand how processors work.
It's not "more Gigahertz or something means better". Remember, both the A6's CPU in iPhone 5 and the A7's CPU in iPhone 5s were clocked at 1.3 GHz, both are dual core, yet the 5s is about twice as powerful CPU-wise.

A simple analogy to make this easily understandable:

Team A6 and Team A7 consist of two persons (think CPU cores) each.
All those people walk the same speed (think CPU clock), let's say 8 km/h. However, the members of Team A7 are buff and strong so they can carry 40 kg of apples (think instructions per cycle) each when walking that speed, whereas the members of Team A6 can only carry 20 kg.

Now if both teams have to move a same size pile of apples from place A to place B, Team A7 will get twice as much done in the same time as Team A6, despite both teams consisting of two people each, all walking the same speed.

 

[Radon87000]

iOS 12 is intended to clean up iOS 11's mess. So it's virtually certain 6 will make the cut.

 

[Shirasaki]

iOS 12 is intended to clean up iOS 11's mess. So it's virtually certain 6 will make the cut.

And let’s HOPE your home button obsession can be finally solved.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

Not True, because if they depends on ram then the iPad 3 with 1GB of ram should have gotten the iOS 10 also.
It's depending on this Gigahertz or something like that. BOth iPhone 5/5S is clocked 300mhz hiigher than the iPad 3 even those 3 device shares the same ram.

Sounds like you don’t understand how a processor works.. iPad 3rd gen was slower than the iPad 2nd gen and was an awful expample for you to use.. A7 was twice as powerful as the A6-A6x even if the clock speed was the same..

 

[avtella]

Sounds like you don’t understand how a processor works.. iPad 3rd gen was slower than the iPad 2nd gen and was an awful expample for you to use.. A7 was twice as powerful as the A6-A6x even if the clock speed was the same..

You and MrUNIMOG explained well. I tried to explain that and she raged on me lol. Additionally she thinks the CPU is always the bottle neck.

 

[CaTOAGU]

The iPhone 5s/6/6+ on iOS 12 will be comical. 1GB devices already struggles on iOS 11.

How do you know they’re struggling because of ram and not because of cpu throttling due to a bad battery.
[doublepost=1520983675][/doublepost]If the rumours are correct that iOS 12 is mainly a stability release then all iOS 11 devices will be supported