Q: Why does apple slow down old devices?
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Aug 28, 2016 11:05 AMby Meg St._Clair,mdelaney2014 wrote:
But older iPhones on newer software are just laggy as f anyone with any technical background in mobile platforms knows this.
I also have an extensive technical background (as do many of us here), work with iPhones, Android, Windows and even some Blackberries still running Blackberry OS every day. What you're saying is absolute nonsense and only shows you don't know enough about how iPhones work to adequately assist your customers.
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Aug 28, 2016 11:17 AMby Meg St._Clair,mdelaney2014 wrote:
Lol you probably work for Apple.``
This is a user-to-user forum. The only Apple employees posting here are the Community Specialists who are identified as such and the Hosts who rarely post but who have purple Apple avatars. If I worked for Apple, why would I be working everyday with phones with other operating systems? Your logic is on a pare with your ability to punctuate properly.
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Aug 30, 2016 6:49 AMby imanonymous,I agree! I am suffering the same fate at the hands of apple. they don't let you downgrade back to an older version of ios because they WANT this to happen. when your ipad was made in the factory, the factory workers burned immutable code into your device. the code told your device how to enter this thing called DFU mode. DFU mode is the first code that ever ran on your device in it's lifetime. you can theoretically downgrade your device to any ios in DFU mode, but for itunes to flash it onto your device, it must be signed with a cryptographic key that only apple knows. And it's unique for your device. And guess what?! They REFUSE to sign older firmware, like the kind that was, you know, ACTUALLY MEANT TO RUN ON AN IPAD 2!!!!!!! So your running ios meant for an ipad like the ipad air 2. No wonder it's slow.
seriously though, maybe if you made a video about giving your ipad 2 away to a homeless person of made a video about smashing it and throwing it into a lake, maybe you could get the money to buy a new ipad from apple! AND THIS TIME, NEVER UPGRADE IT MORE THAN ONE VERSION UP FROM THE STOCK SOFTWARE.
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Aug 30, 2016 8:19 AMby MichelPM,Not really running an iOS meant for more recent devices because, as you are fully aware, many new and useful features of the very recent iOS versions get stripped out of older iDevices based on the age/year of the iDevice.
iPad 2, 3, 4 and 1st gen iPad Mini owners really only get variations of the base iOS operating frameworks.
Older iPad users really get a stripped down, bare bones iOS experience.
As far as slow downs are concerned, I have to report that, for some strange unknown reason to me, the last "emergency" iOS 9.3.5 update has really noticeably sped up my iPad 2 this time around.
My iPad 2 had been woking fairly well and fairly snappy on previous versions of iOS 9, but for some strange inexplicable reason, my iPad 2 is running MUCH snappier and better than it had been in quite sometime on this most recent iOS update.
I wonder if Apple didi more with this, seemingly, quick update (maybe Apple had been working on a iOS 9.3.5 update before someone found this latest security breach) other than just plug a security hole, because my iPad seems to to be just faster than it has been in quite sometime.
It is a pretty noticeable and welcome change in all around responsiveness!
No rhyme or reason why this has happened, but I am a very happy camper about this.
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Sep 14, 2016 2:30 PMby edwinpc29,Thank you so much for this information i will be updating my ipad 2 and see what happens. What i was saying was that i rarely use my ipad, so for it to be virtually unusable and slow doesnt make sense to me. Even if it is old it shouldnt slow down so much, specially if it has nothing stored or any big games that would affect the speed.
