Why does apple slow down old devices?

YOU should not upgrade your any OS or iOS. never. never

- keep your first backup forever.

- Record a video form the speed of your new phone, iMac,..., and the application you use to work.

Please note, that the degradation of performance is NOT due ENTIRELY to changes in the OS, it is due to the incapability of YOUR device to operate under those conditions.

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.

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

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.

R

AppleFan_NotAnymore wrote:

If you buy a car, then the car company does not stop making parts of a model just because they have a new model. I paid full price for my product and i want to use it as long as i want.

I want a million dollars and a Porsche.

Apple doesn't stop making parts for older devices when a new one is released. They eventually stop servicing devices but, it's generally after about 7 years.

Is Ford still making parts for the Model A?

Not really fair to compare consumer electronics devices to cars since average consumer devices and products only supply parts and service for a limited amount of years.

Can you still get parts for consumer electronic devices from the 1960's, through say, the year 2000?

BTW, may old iDevices are still purring right along.

This isn't an exact comparison. GM stopped stopped supplying parts after 15 or so years for my '93 corsica.

Yes, there were secondary parts suppliers, but try to get an uncommon part on the secondary part market.

R

Yeah, right! (sacasm and laughing!!!)

Some anyymous website, ironically called "Anonymous" posted a story from an unknown anonymous person with an alias about some anonymous study from some suppposed student, who may or may not be a student from Harvard, to prove this unproven and "mythical" and ridiculous theory about Apple, intentionally, slowing down their own devices, solely based on posted anonymous user complaints from a bunch of anonymous website searches for such complaints!

Dems dare some "real proof" right dem dare, all right!

Where's yer "real" proof?

klselfridge wrote:

It has been proven, and apple has been sued for it

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&v ed=0ahUKEwiZraWPnLnWAhVJImMKHfLIDuoQFggo…

All that "study" shows is that people complain about battery issues on the internet. People also complain about being abducted by aliens. The anonymous poster to whom you linked is also referring to an article from three years ago, so old news.

And, anyone can sue someone. Just because papers are filed doesn't mean 1) a judge won't laugh you out of court and 2) you will win. And, even if you do win, it only means a jury thought you might be right. It doesn't prove you are right.

FYI,

All of my older and updated Apple devices are working just peachy keen fine dare.

I have an old iPod Touch, new iPod Touch, an iPad 2, an iPad 3 and an iPad Pro and 2 older Macs.

Everything works and runs fine.

My wife never complains about her iPad 3 or her 2010 Mac running crummy.

My iPad 2, with some, arguably features disabled, runs very well too on it's last release over a year, ago!

sallenmd wrote:

Not force, but frequent pop-up harassment to update. There is another thread about the inability to stop that.

Oh, the agony of it. Having to dismiss a reminder once a day (unless you forget to press the "remind me tomorrow" option, that is). It's almost beyond all conceivable expectations of human endurance.....

GB

Or my original iPhone 😀. Why does Apple do that, do you think? Are they taking lessons from Detroit? Planned obsolescence? It makes no sense. I know that Apple could give my original iPhone Touch ID and 3D Touch if they wanted to....

GB

Csound1 wrote:

Can you tell me where I left my iPad, it was on the bedroom table but alas, has disappeared.

When Apple fails to coerce people into buying new iPads by slowing down older devices, they are teleported back to the Mothership, thereby demonstrating their levitatory capabilities.

iOS's slowdown and levitation parameters are enabled through iCloud and are not user-accessible.

John Galt wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

Can you tell me where I left my iPad, it was on the bedroom table but alas, has disappeared.

When Apple fails to coerce people into buying new iPads by slowing down older devices, they are teleported back to the Mothership, thereby demonstrating their levitatory capabilities.

iOS's slowdown and levitation parameters are enabled through iCloud and are not user-accessible.

And here I've been blaming the Secret Society of Felines all this time.