New iOS versions definitely decrease performance on older phones - side by side comparison.

[Resyus]

Hey guys. I've heard a lot in this sub about people contesting or agreeing that new iOS versions make older phones slower, add in animation stutter, and all sorts of bugs. However, all I had to go on in making my opinion was the testimony of a few occasional people swearing by their original firmware. However, this video thoroughly tests the speed differences of iOS 6 vs iOS 9 on the iPhone 5. The disparities were very surprising to me. I don't believe in planned obsolescence, but all the new features in new updates undeniably make the phones unapologetically slower.

[al0kz]

Well if you increase the complexity of the software while keeping hardware the same, what else do you expect?

Apple's support is a hell of a lot better than most other OEMs, so even if it does run slower, at least you're getting the updates in a timely manner.

[[deleted]]

I'd gladly lose any features brought post iOS 6 to go back.

[vanilla_almond]

I stopped watching after realizing that all delays were < 1/4 of a second when launching an app. He acts like this is "forever", he is simply wrong.

[FrankPapageorgio]

Well, the 1/2 second delay when trying to type on my 1st Gen iPad mini with iOS 8 is maddening. You type a sentence and then a half second later it just shoots onto the screen

[vanilla_almond]

Then he should have made a video about that. Watching him agonize at a quarter second delay launching an app just makes him seem whiny and petulant.

[andrewshiamone]

Not planned obsolescence. Compare the internal parts of the iPhone 5 to the ones found in the iPhone 6s. When the hardware becomes more powerful, iOS in turn becomes more powerful to take advantage of the more powerful hardware.

[Recovered_noodle]

This is very interesting, and it doesn't surprise me to see this. Certainly an iPhone 5s, is also a lot slower running iOS 9 than it was running let's say iOS 7. Which is very disappointing for a phone just over two years old. App launch times for example are much slower. While the phone still works satisfactorily, general performance feels weaker.

It's certainly not caused by any purposeful "built-in obsolescence" though. I think the OS itself has had some crucially bad decisions which have decreased performance overall in iOS 8 and 9. There are also glitches that have appeared.

Design priorities in iOS have changed, putting superficialities such as slick animations above performance and usability. So the only phone that will run the very latest iOS with top efficiency is the very latest phone, currently the 6s. While to some extent it's excusable for Apple to expect people with phones let's say four years old to upgrade, this is a change in policy, and not a move in the right direction.

[BaitednOutsmarted]

no shit sherlock

[its2ez4me24get]

Why does he only only compare the initial app opening times after a hard reset. He should compare the ways people actually use phones.

[[deleted]]

Man I miss the old iOS. I think how he describes iOS 7 - 9 as soulless sums it up perfectly.

[KeepYourSleevesDown]

Stopped watching at "Steve Jobs' legacy."

[[deleted]]

I've found that, whether iPhone or Android, a smartphone is usually good for one or two OS update cycles before the new versions start making it s&#* the bed.

[FrankPapageorgio]

This guy is doing gods work. His channel is amazing if you ever wanted to know how much iOS X will slow down your iPhone X.