Other iPhone 6 VS 7 Speed over time

[OkDude]

I had the iPhone 6 for three years after which it got very slow. Have used it a lot too of course. Now I have the 7. Can I expect this one to be also really slow after 3 years? Maybe even sooner since this one came out 1.5 years ago but only got it recently?

IS the new battery throttle option ging to make a difference?

Any thoughts?

 

[eyoungren]

I'm guessing you missed all the commotion?

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...s-based-on-battery-wear-level-merged.2094218/

https://www.macrumors.com/2017/12/21/apple-lawsuit-slowing-down-old-iphone-models/

 

[sdwaltz]

Aside from the info in eyoungren's post, there's also the fact that the speed bump from the 6/6 Plus to the 6s/6s Plus is big. Like, really big.

My Dad's 2-year-old 6s Plus basically runs like a brand new phone still, on iOS 11. The 7/7 Plus is obviously even faster than that.

My long-retired 6 Plus sputtered and struggled even on iOS 10, for reference.

TL;DR: theoretically the processor in the 7 should be good to go for quite a while, but you might need a battery replacement eventually.

 

[sunapple]

What difference would it make when you’ve already bought it?

 

[maerz001]

Don't update to iOS11. Problem solved

 

[aakshey]

iOS 13 on iPhone 7 == iOS 10 on iPhone 6 in terms of speed.

So +1 iOS version.

My iPhone 7 on iOS 11 was already much slower than it was on iOS 10.

 

[nordique]

I had the iPhone 6 for three years after which it got very slow. Have used it a lot too of course. Now I have the 7. Can I expect this one to be also really slow after 3 years? Maybe even sooner since this one came out 1.5 years ago but only got it recently?

IS the new battery throttle option ging to make a difference?

Any thoughts?

A new battery will make it a lot more usable and fast enough imo

I have a 6 on a fresh battery and it runs absolutely fine on iOS 11.3

 

[rodedwards]

I agree with Nordique ... I have iPhone 6 running iOS 11.3 and it was slow until i got a new battery last week. Now it is noticeably faster ...
My Geekbench App phone processor speeds also are better and they do not drop with battery drainage.
Just get a new battery - ideally from Apple.

 

[now i see it]

The phones don't get slow. It's the software "upgrades" that kill them.
It's a misnomer (and misleading) that newer versions of iOS are "upgrades". What's so "up" about slowing a phone down to unusability? The more accurate term for every new OS is "downgrade" - because that's what's guaranteed to happen to its performance.

iPhone 6 is plenty quick running on the OS it was designed for (ios9)

 

[MacDevil7334]

The phones don't get slow. It's the software "upgrades" that kill them.
It's a misnomer (and misleading) that newer versions of iOS are "upgrades". What's so "up" about slowing a phone down to unusability? The more accurate term for every new OS is "downgrade" - because that's what's guaranteed to happen to its performance.

iPhone 6 is plenty quick running on the OS it was designed for (ios9)

The iPhone 6 originally shipped with iOS 8. Though, generally you are safe upgrading one major iOS version past the original so it’s not surprising that iOS 9 runs well too (especially since it was touted as a bug fix release).

To answer the OP’s question, nobody really knows how the 7 will fare in 3 years. It should do a bit better than the 6 by virtue of having double the RAM at the very least.

 

[aakshey]

In 3 yrs iPhone 7 would be slower than the current iPhone 6. Anybody with common sense knows this. Double the RAM notwithstanding.