Why does apple slow down old devices?

Illuminati... confirmed!

You are stating your own opinion here.

Apple does not force you to upgrade/update anything.

No company "pushes" you to do ANYTHING!

The choice is always yours.

Get real! Get a call from my Mother evertime the message asking her to upgrade appears. She wants to know what to do. To get rid of the pesky message, she has to upgrade.

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mattman2005 wrote:

Apple scales updates to older devices? Really? Where is your data on that? I understand telling a small lie, but geez dude.

Yes, of course they do. Older phones do not get all the same features that newer phones do.

From Apple's page on iOS 10:

• Raise to wake is available on iPhone SE and iPhone 6s or later.
• Rich notifications are available on iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, and iPad mini 2 or later.
• Ride-booking extensions in Maps are supported on iPhone 5 or later.

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios-10/

Nightshift mode, which was added in iOS 9.3 (if I recall correctly) requires an iPhone 5S or later.

Accusing people of lying is very, very rude

gail from maine wrote:

I've got an idea for you. Stop using iOS devices.

Here you go

Phlac wrote:

... This is why I like Apple.

Case closed.

John Galt wrote:

gail from maine wrote:

I've got an idea for you. Stop using iOS devices.

Here you go

Better yet, indeed! Landlines with Rotary phones (bakelight version preferably)

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You should consider restoring your device to original settings, except for the iOS level, as a troubleshooting step.

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings - Apple Support

Be sure to back up first.

While your posts, as an Apple support community member are acceptable?

He does not make dumb political statements as part of his contribution.

You are ranting and making nonsensical statements. I doubt any Apple employee told you to buy a new phone to enjoy new iOS features. New hardware features perhaps, but not to make use of a new iOS which Apple makes efforts to keep backwards compatible for as long as technically possible.

I’m sure my accurate post discussing

Uh-huh. The processor throttling began a year ago with iOS 10,2,1.

A Message to Our Customers - Apple (CA)

edwinpc29 wrote:

I am so upset with apple because i have an iPad 2 that i literally rarely ever used and is pretty much new but yet its so slow. This started after i updated my ipad i hadn't updated my iPad for about 2.5 years and then all of the sudden it just completely slowed down! I am a die hard apple fan i've had everything apple for about a decade because I thought and always believed that they made superior products. But now i am realizing that their products are not made to last! I am not the only one with this problem either my sister has a white apple macbook and same thing has happened to her! Her macbook is horribly slow and just a terribly laptop now she has only had it for about 3 years and it is literally worthless now. i don't get it apple! Why do you do this to your customers! You create nice products that only seemed to be temporary you are ripping us off! Why now i don't even want to buy an iPhone Im trying to look for alternatives! Please answer my question! Does anyone else have this issue with their apple products? This seems so suspicious! I even refuse to update my macbook air because i am afraid apple is going to slow it down!

No two or three year old device is going to run as fast as this year's model with a faster processor. Newer version of software are written for the faster processors. Are you suggesting that Apple should cripple newer versions of system software to support older software? That's ridiculous.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I'm typing this response on a 5 year old MBA that's working just fine, by the way.

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Other folks have reported this issue.

Some people have reported successful speed ups via:

If you are having problems with apps stalling or crashing,

-- double click on home button

-- swipe up on all the apps to force quit them

Re-boot ipad.

Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until a red slider appears, then drag the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559

force power down if the above give you trouble.

Hold down both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button. Ten seconds or more. Hold until the Apple logo appears.

more details on re-booting:

http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Guide/ss/How-To-Reboot-Your-iPad-Power-Off.htm

This these tips by MichelPM to improve performance:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7387532?answerId=29504169022#29504169022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7387532?answerId=29504311022#29504311022

Restore to factory settings by loading the latest version of ios that your machine will support:

1) Do a full backup of your device if needed. Twice is best -- cloud and computer.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977

2) Three ways of restoring your ipad. [ as easy as abc ]

2.a) "You can use iTunes to restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to factory settings and the latest version of iOS."

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

2.b) Be a little more insistent: "You can put your iOS device into recovery mode, then restore it using iTunes.:

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263

3.c) At last resort you could consider DFU (Device Firmware Update). This could void your warranty.

http://www.imore.com/tip-put-iphone-ipad-dfu-mode

nsdjoey explains how to force a reload of ios

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7067914

Apple is not responsible at all for any product issues or slowdowns due to OS upgrades/updates.

Apple is NOT intentionally doing anything detrimental to their products.

Your experiences are NOT typical of the other millions of users using Apple products.

Try my tips here to help you with your older iPad issues.

Slow iPad 2 on iOS 9

As far as your sister's white MacBook is concerned, if this is a white MacBook, your sister must have bought this used 3 years, ago, as white MacBooks are, at least, almost 8 years old.

This is a very long time in technonolgy years.

Also, that MacBook's technology is older and the amount of RAM that can be installed is very limited compared to newer Mac models.

As newer OS upgrades are released, year after year for Apple's computing products, the harder it is for older hardware technology to be able to run newer OS advancements that older hardware wasn't designed, necessarily to take advantage of.

BTW,

My 64 GB storage iPad 2 still runs fine on iOS 9.3.2.

My iPad still has approx. 20 GBs of free data storage space left on it.

Make sure your iPad 2 still has, at least 3-6 GBs of free storage space left on it for the iOS to run properly and smoothly.

My iPad 2 & 3 are working very well on iOS 9.3.5.

Maybe you need try my list of tips to get better performance from both your iPad 2 and iPhone 5.

Slow iPad on iOS 9, 10 or 11!

These tips are largely valid for both iOS 8 & 10, as well.

Whatever apps you are still running on these devices should still be working, regardless if the apps you use have been upgraded to continue to work on newer iOS devices.

Good Luck!

There are not much you can do, but try these hammers:

Re-boot ipad.

Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until a red slider appears, then drag the slider. Then press and hold the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559

force power down if the above give you trouble.

Hold down both the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button. Ten seconds or more. Hold until the Apple logo appears.

more details on re-booting:

http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Guide/ss/How-To-Reboot-Your-iPad-Power-Off.htm

This these tips by MichelPM to improve performance:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7387532?answerId=29504169022#29504169022

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7387532?answerId=29504311022#29504311022

Restore to factory settings by loading the latest version of ios that your machine will support:

1) Do a full backup of your device if needed. Twice is best -- cloud and computer.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203977

2) Three ways of restoring your ipad. [ as easy as abc ]

2.a) "You can use iTunes to restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to factory settings and the latest version of iOS."

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

2.b) Be a little more insistent: "You can put your iOS device into recovery mode, then restore it using iTunes.:

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201263

3.c) At last resort you could consider DFU (Device Firmware Update). This could void your warranty.

http://www.imore.com/tip-put-iphone-ipad-dfu-mode

My wife's iPad 3 (64 GB model, 20 GBs of data storage left) is running well on iOS 9.3.5.

My iPad 2 runs fine on iOS 9.3.5, also.

There are some things you need to do to improve performance of newer iOS versions on older iDevices, thesse things don't affect overall regular iOS operations.

Many of these things, in my list, I implement on ALL of my iPads to get the fastest performance possible.

Maybe you should follow my link to improve your iPad 3 performance and perform most of these procedures to seemif your iPad 3 performance improves.

My wife has never complained about performance issues on her iPad 3 on iOS 9.3.5.j

Link to my iPad performance/optimisation user tips link.

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10344

The majority of iPad 3 and 4 users aren't having the kind of issues you describe on iOS 9.3.5.

It's usually iPad 2 users who have been complaining about severe device slowdowns.

Good Luck to You!

Mlaban2903 wrote:

I had the exact same issue with my iPad 2. It was working just fine and then all of a sudden it started running so slow to the point that it was useless. It happened around the time that the newer iPad was being released. I can see if it occurred gradually but it happened basically overnight. Something fishy going on.

Really,

Just magically and mysteriously your iPad 2 was just getting slower and slower...uh huh.

How much free data storage space is left your iPad 2?

If it is 2 GBs or much less free data storage left on your iPad 2, there is NOT enough sufficient free data storage space on your iPad 2 to have it run iOS without issues/problems and erractic behaviour.

You need to maintain a free data storage space amount of 3GBs +.

My iPad 64 GBs iPad 2's free datat storage space is approx. 20 GBs and is operating just fine will with very minimal overall slowdown issues.

Again, see my iOS/iPad performance tips which I edit and update on a semi-regular basis.

Slow iPad on iOS 9 or 10

Good Luck to You!