I don't know if planned obsolescence is really happening but I'll explain why it would work. People expect old devices to slow down. For decades, we've been conditioned to this. You go out and buy a new PC, enjoy it for a few years, it slows down and falls behind the times and you go out and get another one. So if Apple were truly doing it, no one would question it. They'd just think their phone is old and upgrade.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
iPhone Users Complain of App Slowdowns and Performance Drops After Installing iOS 11
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
I don't know if planned obsolescence is really happening but I'll explain why it would work. People expect old devices to slow down. For decades, we've been conditioned to this. You go out and buy a new PC, enjoy it for a few years, it slows down and falls behind the times and you go out and get another one. So if Apple were truly doing it, no one would question it. They'd just think their phone is old and upgrade.
Mail crashes about 6 times a day for me now. It's been an issue throughout the betas and it's been reported.
Regarding the annoying music widget issue on spotify you need to open the Aüple Music app and close it completely. After that the spotify conteols appear. iOS 11 always seems to favor and overwrite other music controls initially
Basically what it's like pretty much with any x.0 release--some experience some issues, others don't really experience much of consequence. What else is new?
FWIW: When I first updated to iOS 11, I had major app hangs, slowdowns, freezing, all that. Very difficult to use the phone. I decided to backup and restore from backup, and suddenly everything ran super fast for about a day. Then a day later the issues started up again... Not sure what to do.
If one more person tells me it is reindexing! My iPad Pro is still a dog one week later. It’s a bug!
Just as an additional data point, I am having non of these issues. I had one app that was crashing, they published an update and no further problems. This is on an SE.
Don't really know for sure but I wiped and restored iOS 11 from iTunes hoping it would fix it. It didn't.
I really don’t get it. I have been on all the betas which worked fine but the GM....it messes up. My battery life is considerably worse and I also experience app crashes.
Could you please update this article with multiple users experiences with poor battery life and phones getting unusually hot during light use!?
Could you please update this article with multiple users experiences with poor battery life and phones getting unusually hot during light use!?
Running iOS 11 on a 6s Plus and I really haven't noticed any slowdowns on my phone. The new App Store is ok, I dont like the new format too much, but it runs pretty slick...
My 8 plus, is visually slower than 7 on ios10. My observation since friday.
Animations are choppy and app speed is not there. Comparing to the 7.
Animations are choppy and app speed is not there. Comparing to the 7.
Definitely not my mindset and pre-conditioned behavior since I know better but, I definitely can buy that for the random mainstream consumer (even though I still can’t relate to such a mindset) and they should know better since a year or two-old device is hardly obsolete.