I have ALWAYS updated my devices when the new iOS is released or the .1 .2 .3... minor updates. Right now I have a 13 Pro and an iPad Air 5 that I am very happy with. Both with 15.6.1 Not buying anything for another 2 years maybe. I've never missed a software update for 10+ years now with Apple. Ever. But I'm just not in a mood to install a new iOS when my devices are very stable. I don't want to start seeing my devices start to slow down. Anyone think I'm just wrong?
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iPhone 13 Pro Anyone else not updating iOS this time?
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I usually wait a few weeks before installing iOS updates to see if they have any issues. Fortunately I haven’t ever had any problems with stability. So I say go for it.
There’s no right or wrong choice, whatever you feel works best for you is the right thing to do.
I’ve been running the developer betas since the beginning. Were a couple that needed to be tweaked. As far as iOS is concerned, the dev beta 8 has been great. Very happy with battery life and app performance.
Using iPhone 11 Pro Max 512 storage.
I’ve been running the developer betas since the beginning. Were a couple that needed to be tweaked. As far as iOS is concerned, the dev beta 8 has been great. Very happy with battery life and app performance.
Using iPhone 11 Pro Max 512 storage.
Look at the release notes WRT to security updates and bugfixes. If there’s an exploit being actively used in the wild, I’m going to do it immediately vs waiting a few days to see if there are issues with the update.
Staying on an older OS has both advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
- you don’t need to learn anything new
- your current hardware will (probably) continue to perform like it does now
Disadvantages:
- you don’t learn anything new. OS are complicated and learning changes is best done in small doses
- your hardware performance may improve.
- you likely don’t have security updates and bug fixes
- you don’t get new features
- you’ll get to a new OS version fairly soon, one way or another, so there’s really little point in delaying beyond a couple of weeks to watch for bugs
Staying on an older OS has both advantages and disadvantages.
Advantages:
- you don’t need to learn anything new
- your current hardware will (probably) continue to perform like it does now
Disadvantages:
- you don’t learn anything new. OS are complicated and learning changes is best done in small doses
- your hardware performance may improve.
- you likely don’t have security updates and bug fixes
- you don’t get new features
- you’ll get to a new OS version fairly soon, one way or another, so there’s really little point in delaying beyond a couple of weeks to watch for bugs
I always upgrade when the RC drops, usually a week before it’s released to the public. It gives me chance to try out the new OS while giving me extra time to be able to downgrade back to the previous version if needed. Apple usually stops signing the previous version a week after the public release.
I love the new iMessage editing feature. I know a lot of people have said it seems useless but I use it least once every couple of days.
Unfortunately I’m the only one I know with iOS 16 so it looks sloppy on my friends’ devices. If you use iMessage and you don’t update to iOS 16 it’s gonna start getting a little sloppier with resent messages containing edits.
Unfortunately I’m the only one I know with iOS 16 so it looks sloppy on my friends’ devices. If you use iMessage and you don’t update to iOS 16 it’s gonna start getting a little sloppier with resent messages containing edits.
Same. I remember WAY back in the day where an old device could drastically slow down with a new version of the OS, but I haven't experienced anything remotely like that when upgrading a year old device.
I always upgrade within a few hours of apple releasing the latest iOS. I wait for the the millions of people updating at the same time to lower download times.
I have yet to experience slowdowns on any of my iPhones.
However, my last major iPhone (an iPhone 6s+ which is now my secondary phone) was on iOS 9.0.1 from October 2015 to December 2020 and I had no real issues. I was on the late fully untethered jailbreak at the time so I wasn't willing to update. It's not so bad. That said, my 6s+ is now running 15.6.1 and it got a new battery in November 2021. So, any throttling I could have had because of battery issues was totally avoided (it was never on the version of iOS that Apple started that with and by the time I upgraded it that whole debacle had led to Apple giving you the switch to turn it off).
It also helps to have other devices that aren't your daily use driver. My 6th Gen iPad is on iOS 16 Beta. Should things go wacky and force a restore, that's no big thing to me. My iPad primarily sees use at night to read news before going to sleep. Issues would be irritating at most. Once the full release of iOS 16 drops, I'll upgrade it then wait a few weeks or so to upgrade my 11PM.
I've taken that stance since Apple's dumpster fire release of iOS 9. Incidentally, I had a 6+ on iOS 8.x that year and I'd cracked the screen. Because they couldn't figure out how to get rid of my jailbreak and install iOS 9 they replaced my entire phone for the cost of the screen replacement.
It helps to have a non-daily use device you can use as a guinea pig. My 6th Gen iPad sees betas before my daily use phones see the actual updates. I get to experience what's new and problems don't become serious because the primary device isn't the one affected.
Right.. My 6s+ didn't really slow down ever.. The rare blips in a couple updates, but a real stable device. Only thing that really slowed it was the battery which I did end up replacing myself. I stopped updating it when I got my 13ProMax.
My 12 Pro Max is still on the software version it shipped with... 14.1. My iPhone is jailbroken, which is also why I haven’t upgraded the software yet. I’m preordering the iPhone 14 Pro Max and will have no choice but to start using iOS 16, when my phone is delivered, but you better believe that when a jailbreak is out for iOS 16, I’ll be jailbreaking that as well.
Meanwhile on 14.1, I haven’t had any issues with apps or the phone acting crazy. The only issue I have is the battery is shot (battery capacity is at 82%), which many people with the 12 series phones experience the same issue.
Meanwhile on 14.1, I haven’t had any issues with apps or the phone acting crazy. The only issue I have is the battery is shot (battery capacity is at 82%), which many people with the 12 series phones experience the same issue.
