Does each OS update make the iPhone slower?

[tymaster50]

I think it's a little unfair to react to a genuine question with such sarcasm. Everything else in life slows/degrades with age, so it's not unreasonable that someone might assume processors do the same.

it's okay. Guys like that almost always have social problems.

 

[Bahroo]

that high won't last for long. Once the new OS settles in and they start releasing backlog updates it will get slower. My iPhone 4 felt like new too then I realized I didn't really get any features. A prime example is the 3g on ios 4.

Ya okay but you still get vital upgrades like a new and faster Safari and others on older devices that really make the device feel faster

 

[zephxiii]

Well i went ahead and put iOS6 on my 4 and yes it does run better now which is great. Also i think I'm getting better battery life as well. I woke this morning and batt level was only at 96%.

 

[tl01]

Do you really think it's more demanding to swipe to the next page on iOS6 than it was on iOS2?

Is it more demanding to type an email?

It's the exact same action... yet in each OS update it becomes impossibly slow to type an email with stuck letters etc.

When the 3Gs came out it was blazing fast, then after a few updates the same exact actions became bogged down, slow, sticky.

It's Apple's version of throttling.

You think it only happens on Apple products??

 

[xraydoc]

Two iPhone 4S's and two iPhone 4's here (plus my iPhone 5). All are running quite well with iOS 6. No lagginess or slowdowns. Trust me, my wife and kids would complain in a second if their phones weren't working as well as before iOS 6.

 

[Spectrum Abuser]

iOS 6 has artificially made my iPhone 4 run as an iPhone 4S. All of the animations are smooth and applications load without hiccup for the most part. The only two things that give the phone trouble is opening up the camera application and the maps application. Both take a considerable amount of time. Once operating, though, the experience is near flawless.

 

[pk7]

My iPhone 4S is noticeably slower on iOS 6. I do have 240 apps though and I did an update OTA. Would restoring and deleting some apps help?

 

[noteple]

In general no.
There have be some 4.x and 5.x updates that just overwhelmed older hardware. iOS 6 feels pretty good on the 3GS and 4.

It's only when a demanding App like iOS 6 Podcasts is run on older slower hardware that you feel a noticeable difference.