It happens every year after the release of the new version of iOS: users who update complain about crashes, slowness and how little battery life lasts. Complaints about how Apple is leaving older devices behind by "forcing" users to renew their iPhones are multiplying across the webwhile others maintain that their iPhones work fine without any problems.
Who has the reason? Is it true that Apple makes its old iPhones perform worse with updates so that people are forced to switch iPhones? Is there planned obsolescence? A study published by Futuremark denies all this by ensuring that the updates keep the iPhone working properly and prove it to us with tests carried out over months.
Futuremark has an application that the App Store that performs performance tests on our iPhone, called 3DMark. The tests are carried out at the GPU (graphics) and CPU (processor) level, and for months they have been collecting information from users who have performed tests on different iPhone models, from 5s to 7. All the information has been reflected in the graphs where we can see month by month the average score obtained by the tests carried out: in gray the results of iOS 9, in blue those of iOS 10 and in orange those of iOS 11. As you can see in the case of the iPhone 5s, the oldest model that has received iOS 11, the variation is minimal, we can even say which is graphically superior with iOS 11 than it was with iOS 9.
In the case of iPhone 66, the graphical improvement is evident with iOS 11 compared to iOS 9 and iOS 10, and it is true that with iOS 11 the CPU tests are worse than with iOS 9, but hardly unchanged compared to the latest versions of iOS 10.
In the iPhone 6s the variations are minor, and although iOS 10 was an initial improvement in both GPU and CPU, later it decreased somewhat and with the arrival of iOS 11 the level has remained unchanged.
Finally, the iPhone 7 has improved the graphic performance compared to the latest versions of iOS 10, and the CPU remains practically unchanged compared to those same versions. Supposedly we are facing objective and quantifiable dataThen there are the impressions of each one that surely do not change when seeing these graphs.
The performance has not fallen drastically but there has been a reduction. It is true that iOS 11 performs certain operations that are more used on new hardware, hence we feel those differences. But I think that all this we should value when we have two or three more updates. On an iPhone 6 now with 11.0.2 it goes well but you go to an iPhone 7 or 8 and of course, you think that everything is garbage.
So the iPhone 4 did not affect the performance of the iOS 7 …….
Not that it is going to tell the thousands of complaints that are in the Apple forum and tell my iPhone 6 that it is going like slow ass, with micro freezing and with the keyboard that takes a year to come out
I am very quantifiable data ... but if I have not misunderstood, the CPU and GPU tests refer to the performance of the iPhone ... Is there something related to the battery?
Thank you
I have an iphone 6 that with ios 10 was slower, but now with ios 11 and subsequent minor updates it has become a very unpleasant phone to use, long delays to open applications, constant hooks, slow keyboard not very slow ...
So don't tell me milongas.
I'm like you ... Hehehe ios 9 on iphone and ipad
As I said in an article I wrote, benchmarks like this one run tests to assess the power of the terminal in environments that do not simulate the actual use of the user.
Although these benchmarks say that the power of the terminal remains the same, that does not mean anything, since the firmware may be less optimized, worsening the performance for older terminals.
What seems fatal to me is that you can't go back to iOS 10, even if you want to. And the most “interesting” thing is that if you complain about the battery, you need to change the screen, or anything else that requires personalized attention in the Apple Stores, you must have the latest version of iOS installed.
Seriously Apple?
My iPhone 6 goes against these statistics, I update it to iOS 11 and it goes much slower, when I discharge all the battery and I connect it to charge using an original charger it takes 20 to 25 min to turn on. just to turn on, without using it starting the day with 100% charge by 12 noon I already have 45% charge. Something similar has happened to someone else or am I one of the few who does not fit the statistic ????
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For my part, my 6Gb iPhone 16 Plus continues to function properly after updating to iOS 11, and the battery drain is consistent over time of use. There are options that I preferred in iOS 10 such as the design, thickness and font, applications like Weather show the information jammed, the transition when unlocking the phone is perceived slightly slower and the design of the new calculator does not convince me, but other news They seem to me to be an advance such as the "Driving" and "Emergency SOS" mode, as well as the change in the design of Settings.
As they have indicated in a previous comment, when updating the Apple Watch there is no going back, and if you want to link an iPhone it has to be on the latest version of iOS. It already happened to me in its day when I had iOS 9 with Jailbreak untethered, I had to update to iOS 10 to be able to synchronize the clock with the mobile.
Greetings and thanks to Actualidad iPhone Because of your articles, I have been following the website since my first iPhone 3G when it arrived in Spain (and which, by the way, was left “fried” in the last iOS update).
I think you are not going to fool us with statistics, it is true that the iPhone 6, which I have, is not bad, but it is slower with ios 11, lag in the appstore, on the keyboard, in different applications, even in the native ones
For those who are doing badly, just tell them:
1) how many days ago did you install iOS 11? It can take several days to finish indexing, converting, and more things that it does in the background that make the phone seemingly slow at first and draining a lot of battery. After a few days, he finishes doing things and everything is going as it should.
2) have you tried installing ios11 from scratch? I had problems installing beta versions of iOS 10 and when the final version came out, I was going badly. I restored from scratch and everything started to go fancy. With ios11 the same thing may happen. From scratch and even without restoring backup. Everything clean.
I waited about a week with OS 11 and I went back to IOS 10.3.3 because the battery did not notice improvement and I ALWAYS change the version of IOS (of number, that is, from 9 to 10, from 10 to 11, etc ...) I do a clean restoration and like a new iPhone and it was going like the ass.
What an insult to the intelligence of the owners of iPhones 6 and 6S !!!
Now it will be that what happens is that our subconscious is deceiving us into believing that the iPhone is slower than it seems so that we buy a new one.
How long does it take for an application to be available (loaded and ready to operate) on an iPhone 6 with iOS 11 and how long did it take with iOS10?
At home we have the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 plus, the two phones do not work as before the update, and that is evidence, Apple can pay millions for others to say that there is no planned obsolescence, but the facts do not lie.
Sorry, I do not agree with you, there are hundreds of thousands of complaints and that is no coincidence.