iPhone 8/Plus How to prevent phone from updating

[tonybarnaby]

I’ve got an 8 Plus and an X, both on 11.2.1. These are my first iPhones. Apparently apple hasn’t put in the slowdown feature for the 8 or x yet, but it’s undoubtedly coming. I’ve only ever had a few updates, and each time I had to ask the phone to check for updates.

Is there an option somewhere to make sure I don’t update to iOS 12, or whenever they add the slowdown feature? Will we even know whn they add it, or is there a chance we will update to iOS 11.2.4 and figure out later that it’s too late. Sorry, I’m an iOS noob learning as I go. I didn’t pay nearly $2000 to use these phones for only 12-18 months.

 

[joeblow7777]

I know that this isn’t what you’re asking, but trust me when I tell you that this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. I’ve kept and used iPhones in my household for 3 or even 4 years on the original battery and always keeping the OS up to date. Updating your phone will NOT limit its useful lifespan to 12 or 18 months. Just look around at the number of people using iPhones older than that. They out number the people using newer ones. If iPhones really became terrible to use after a year or so, they wouldn’t be so popular.

 

[Saskat]

You can download the tvOS configuration profile and configure it to stop the nagging. There is a tutorial online and it looks a bit long but it is pretty straightforwatd. Compared to what you would have to deal with if an accidental iOS update slows down or throttles your phone I think it's well worth the effort.

 

[44267547]

I know that this isn’t what you’re asking, but trust me when I tell you that this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. I’ve kept and used iPhones in my household for 3 or even 4 years on the original battery and always keeping the OS up to date. Updating your phone will NOT limit its useful lifespan to 12 or 18 months. Just look around at the number of people using iPhones older than that. They out number the people using newer ones. If iPhones really became terrible to use after a year or so, they wouldn’t be so popular.

I agree. And I'm actually wondering how many average iPhone consumers would even notice how much the performance their iPhones would even slow down to begin with. I think the media is doing an excellent job at exacerbating this issue aside from what we read on a tech forum. The iPhone users around me have not even talked about or even heard of the iPhone performance debacle.

 

[Patriks7]

I know that this isn’t what you’re asking, but trust me when I tell you that this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. I’ve kept and used iPhones in my household for 3 or even 4 years on the original battery and always keeping the OS up to date. Updating your phone will NOT limit its useful lifespan to 12 or 18 months. Just look around at the number of people using iPhones older than that. They out number the people using newer ones. If iPhones really became terrible to use after a year or so, they wouldn’t be so popular.

I don't know if I'm understanding this whole thing right, but isn't it just throttling peak performance? So it should be pretty much okay under normal circumstances?

 

[0002378]

One method I've contemplated is riding the elevator of a 100 storey building, getting to the roof, and dropping the phone from there. That should do it.