Might be better to ask if iOS 16 might slow down iPad Air 3.
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Will iOS 11 slow down the iPhone 6s?
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And once again you deflect to anecdotal reports.I will ask again.In this video in all activities the successive iOS versions are clearly visible as to being slower than the version it shipped with . This is something that is being seen in the video unlike random internet comments and hearsay reports.If this is subjective, am I "seeing it wrong"?
I buy the "competition" and Apple . I don't show blind loyalty to any company
Youtube is anecdotal as well. Anecdotal represents one offs that cannot be proven with certainty. What does "blind loyalty" have to do this thread?
Let me whip out my crystal ball
I have two. Let me whip mine out and check.
I think IOS 14 is going to slow down the iPhone 9. And Apple will launch 20 iOS 14 betas per week
It will slow your 6S down by between 82.375% and 82.750%. This is a well-known, scientifically documented number that has also been proven with each of the last five generations of iPhone and is the result of Apple maliciously writing code into new iOS versions to force owners of recently-made iPhones to upgrade to the current generation as a part of an industrial planned obsolescence campaign.
You really don't know what anecdotal evidence means.From Wikipedia "Anecdotal evidence is evidence from anecdotes, i.e., evidence collected in a casual or informal manner and relying heavily or entirely on personal testimony" The videos I am showing you are visual proof , not informal evidence .Are you seriously equating hearsay evidence to a visual demonstration of planned obsolescence in front of you?
Those videos are still anecdotal in the sense they represent a data point. Hard to believe after all these posts on this subject, back to the same fundamental hyperbole.
Well, you just established you indeed don't understand what proof means. I guess your "I heard someone say that this is not an issue" is more of a proof than a video in your mind. Moving along...
I guess in the other hand you view a YouTube video as absolute proof. You're entitled to your opinion, which works both ways...
However the thread is about iOS 11 and the iPhone 6s, you think an absolute statement can be made now?
Without disagreeing, there are legitimate security issues with making retrogrades available.
That's a bit of an overreach as the only thing this proves is that iOS 6 is fastest on the iPhone 5 (which is expected as since iOS 6 predates the visual overhaul that came with iOS 7 that is much more taxing than the earlier visual style). Since iOS 6 was never available for any iPhone after the iPhone 5 that's kind of a moot point (unless you have an iPhone 5). If you look at it objectively iOS 7, 8, 9 & 10 perform similarly in most tests (and in some cases iOS 10 is the fastest out of those 4). The only clean consecutive ranking is boot time, which honestly who cares? How often do you reset your phone that a longer boot time is a huge inconvenience?
Take off your tinfoil hats everyone. There is no conspiracy by Apple to slow down older devices, it is just a result of added features over time not performing as well on older devices which aren't as powerful as the newer ones and even the impact of added features on performance has become less pronounced over time as iPhones have become much more powerful.
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I hear you, obviously older ios versions that contain open exploits will be less secure but should be up to the individual user to make that choice.
Seriously?I just showed you the definition of anecdotal evidence and you made a completely irrelevant point about "Data points" .Anecdotal evidence are casual informal statements.Stating iOS 9 absolutely destroyed the iPhone 4s is anecdotal statement.Recording a video comparing the two and showing it to people is visual proof
By your logic if I show my geekbench score on the web through a YouTube video ,its anecdotal evidence
Oh come on now. If a Youtube video is to be accepted so should a post on MR. You are splitting hairs along with moving goalposts by bringing in geekbench.
The question at hand is:"would iOS 11 slow down a 6s". The correct answer is it yet remains to be seen.
I disagree, the 6s and SE can be a bit faster with iOS 10 than 9.
I have probably been working in corporate environments too long. I'll say I'm officially 50/50 on this, can see both sides - but some of those exploits on older iOS versions are so bad that if I were making the call at Apple I'd rather lose the customer than have a policy that allowed people to move back to old versions in unlimited numbers.
I know that there is old hardware out there that never upgrades, and I'm not saying those people should be involuntarily upgraded. To me, it's striking a balance. I sympathize with being able to go backwards if things don't work out (beyond the very limited windows that Apple currently provides), but I understand why Apple does this, too. No great answers here for me, but YMMV.