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iPhone 7/Plus Any iPhone 7/+ users staying on iOS 10.3.3 forever?
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You're joking, right? My girlfriend's spare 3GS should run iOS 11 smoothly? On that old hardware?
Let me install Windows 10 on my old 1990s era PC. What? I can't? Shocker!
Disclaimer: This is intended as a serious reply. Thank you.
Last time i checked you can't buy 3GS new at the store...
Since you didn't understand it the first time, i'll try to make it more clear for you - i meant the models Apple currently selling (3GS is not one of them), 6s being the oldest till the 8 (the newest), same goes with the iPads.
The weather app on ios11 is the worst. Stutter city if you have animations enabled
Not on my primary devices.
I do have the following:
- iPod Touch 32GB 4th gen - iOS 4 (Stanza 3.1)
- iPhone 4 32GB - iOS 5 (Stanza 3.2)
- iPhone 4S 32GB - iOS 6 (Stanza 3.2)
- iPad 4 128GB LTE - iOS 6
No emails, finance or anything that requires security on those devices, though.
Well, you put yourself at greater risk from a security standpoint not updating. I find it odd only one other person mentioned security as a reason to update...
The 3D Touch app switcher is still jerky when Reduce Motion is selected, though.
I think some didn't consider this when they purchased the series 3, that it would require them to update to iOS 11 to take advantage of watchOS 4. But I agree with you.
Figure I be the Guinea pig. Get to use the AW3 at least. Rest of fam still in ios10
The way I look at it, Apple continually improves iOS throughout the year. iOS 11 will be eventually rectified with issues to Make it more efficient, so it's not entirely a poor decision to upgrade.
No it’s not. I just wish Apple would pay attention more to battery life when releasing updates let alone major ones.
I preferred iOS 10 over iOS 11. Mainly because I thought iOS 10 was a much more well receptive update versus 11. It just seems it had less issues.
Early days of iOS 10 had the forums here filled with various people having issues of one type or another just about as much (similar to early days of iOS 9, 8, etc.).
Isn't that what tech forums are for? Mainly others congregate to complain about something wrong versus praise the good things. (Rhetorical) Every version of iOS will have its pitfalls. But given how iOS 11 was initially recepted, iOS 10 in terms of stability, seems to be more appreciated. At least based off my readings, but I don't speak on everybody's account or usage either.
Windows 10 installs and runs just fine on 15 year old hardware from the early 2000's. E.g. A pentium D with 2GB RAM. And Microsoft doesn't even control the hardware like Apple does.
Pc world did just that. You can search for the article and form your own conclusion.
I'm right there with HAL, although I'm on an iPhone 6s+, I am completely content with the performance of my device and 10.3.3 is one of the most solid performing versions of iOS I've ever had. This coupled with the fact they completely scrapped all 32-bit support on iOS 11 made me decide it was a no-brained to stay on 10.3.3 forever. It is extremely annoying having to have those system update messages occasionally pop up, but I just hit remind me later and I'm good. I personally am one of those people that have a ******** of $ invested in games on my phone, and I still play all of said games a ton, and probably at least half of them are 32-bit that would not be getting updated by the devs, so there is absolutely no way I am going to lose all of my favorite games that I paid good money for just to get a prettier home screen, maybe a couple of new worthless iOS apps I would never use, and worse battery life. Fu€k all that noise...I plan on keeping my 6s on 10.3.3 until it no longer works. Even a 1-hr drop in battery life is not worth updating to iOS 11 for me, not to mention I like being able to still use all the 32-bit apps I paid for
This is the first phone I've had where I am 100% satisfied with its performance and have no real desire to upgrade to a newer device. Look forward to keeping my 6s as many years as I can (getting a new battery replacement from Apple years from now if needed) and putting that money towards more important things.
My 7+ is on 10.2.1. That's what it shipped with when I got it earlier this week. I'm keeping it that way for quite some time. I'm going to see if the 10.2.1 jailbreak eventually works for the 7. I installed the ATV profile so that I won't get prompted to update.
My 6S+ and SE are amazing on 11.1.2.
My 6S+ and SE are amazing on 11.1.2.