NetworkNewb wrote: » I would question on how much it they actually slowed down the phones first. I used my iPhone 5s for about 5 years before upgrading to an iPhone 8 a couple months ago. The 5S ran just fine for the most part. Only reason I wanted to upgrade was for a better camera to have better pictures of my kids. I also did notice the phone was restarting on its own more frequently towards the end. Like at least once a week. If slowing my iPhone 5S down 2% got me a couple extra years out of my phone and made it so didn't restart on it's own all the time. I thank Apple. Really the 5S was not that slow though. I question how the average person treats their phone. Crazy people upgrading all the time imo.
fitzlopez wrote: » I use an iPhone 6 plus and my wife has a 7 plus. We both have experienced lag on the usage of our phone, sometimes I'm typing and the characters appear much later. On some applications like emoji blitz the app freezes and won't let me continue in the middle of the game. This one time I had an app open wanted to multi task to another one then come back to the original app and the phone just hanged. None of those thing happened on my old iOS version. I mainly use an iPhone for security updates, but I think my usage experience has been degraded. We've pushed out company for usage of iOS because of the security updates but this slowdowns are a problem with 18 months to 2 year company renewal cycles. I'm not a happy camper.
mgeoffriau wrote: » Eh, I'm 50/50 on this. Doesn't a phone with no battery life "force" you to consider upgrading as well? And in either case, if you replace the battery, performance should be restored to (near) original levels.
