iPhone 6(S)/Plus Any free hardware tests for older phones?

[dfleischer]

So for the next few months I'm stuck with my wife's older iPhone 6 plus. She recently upgraded to an X. One of the biggest reasons for her to upgrade was performance. The phone would act like it wouldn't hold anything in to RAM and would reload/refresh an app every time it was accessed. Now that I'm using this phone it acts the same way for me. Any app will reload as if it were the first time opening every time. This was from an iTunes restore as well as setting up as new and then restoring from iCloud. I had figured that going to iOS 12 beta would help as it's supposed to help with performance but there's no change. The phone acts the same way regardless of what iOS version is installed.

Have any of you had similar issues? Is there any way for me to test independently?

 

[timeconsumer]

Have you tried disabling Background App Refresh? Since the iPhone 6 Plus only has 1GB of ram, maybe it will help.

Here’s what Apple says about Background App Refresh:

Use Background App Refresh
After you switch to a different app, some apps run for a short period of time before they're set to a suspended state. Apps that are in a suspended state aren’t actively in use, open, or taking up system resources. With Background App Refresh, suspended apps can check for updates and new content.

If you want suspended apps to check for new content, go to Settings > General > Background App Refresh and turn on Background App Refresh. If you quit an app from the app switcher, it might not be able to run or check for new content before you open it again.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202070

 

[dfleischer]

I did try that and there was no performance change. Seems to me like it's gotta be a hardware issue. I have friends with older phones where this isn't a problem. I had Apple run a diagnostic but they didn't find anything wrong on their end.

 

[timeconsumer]

What about the battery? Does it indicate that it’s supporting “normal peak performance”?

Navigation to this is located here:
Settings > Battery > Battery Health (Beta)

 

[dfleischer]

It does. It shows a maximum capacity of 86% and "Your battery is currently supporting normal peak performance".

 

[timeconsumer]

Hmm, interesting. As far as benchmarking or hardware testing you could try Geekbench and/or AnTuTu then compare your scores with others to see. Unfortunately I don’t think Apple will accept those scores as proof of a hardware issue.