Why does apple slow down old devices?

Ruffkutt wrote:

As we've since learned, apparently they ARE intentionally slowing older devices. 😉

You could, of course, have finished the sentence."..to prevent sudden shutdowns when phones with failing batteries in use". But of course, that would change your point entirely.

?And -YOU- could have added that Apple didn’t divulge to so consumers the battery issues or their approach to address the battery issues. Had they done so, consumers could have made an informed decision to 1) Buy the Phone, OR 2) Replace the battery. Instead all consumers were told, as I was, your phone is older and you should upgrade!

And whenever I see a commercial from a cattle company to feed my horse better cereal

I'm going to jump at the chance to experiment ~ even if the new feed gives less waste.

To be a late adopter and a bit cynical, may pay off in the long run. 😉

Your older white MacBookPro should not slow down at all unless it is Tiger which was always slow. Lion and higher are very fast so your problem is not with Apple. Maybe you need a new battery or other hardware issues. Take it to someone that knows all about Macs and it will be like new again. We have numerous older white ones with zero problems. ,l

What does a reply about Macbook batteries have anything to do with iPads or iPhone batteries.

iDevices aren’t Macs.

I don’t follow the logic or relevance of your response here other than your vague statements about battery issues.

shirazigs wrote:

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.

Great advice. Never upgrade - I suppose you are a professional hacker who loves to see people never upgrade their devices with the most current security measures to keep people like you from invading their privacy....

GB

haha. It seems you are Pro with 37367 points. you recognized me at a glance! way to go!

Hey Pro, do you know why my Macbook pro from 2011 is super slow while it was the fastest laptop in the world.

I deleted all my apps and reinstall mac os again but it is still super slow, it takes more than 10 minutes to boot up. I can't work that. It crashes a lot. My iPhone 6+ is so slow. why? can you answer or I'm just a professional hacker?

If you have a problem with your MacBook Pro from 2011, you should post in the MacBook communities or Mac OS community for the Mac OS you are using.

Maybe your Macbook Pro doesn't have enough RAM installed. Newer versions (Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and newer) need computers with a minimum of 8 GBs of RAM, now, just for the OS, alone!

As far as your iPhone 6+ is concerned, you need to have your iPhone 6+ battery replaced by Apple under Apple’s new iPhone battery replacement plan, that should go into effect VERY SOON and will be in effect until December, 2018.

The iPhone battery replacement price has been reduced from $79 U.S.D. to $29 U.S.D. and is for all iPhone 6 and later iPhone models.

shirazigs wrote:

haha. It seems you are Pro with 37367 points. you recognized me at a glance! way to go!

Hey Pro, do you know why my Macbook pro from 2011 is super slow while it was the fastest laptop in the world.

It is because you have messed it up, so stop laughing and fix it, if you want help fixing it just ask.

The truth is, devices age over time. This causes batteries to degrade and apple is limiting performance for that reason, to ensure the device can actually work without dying after 2 minutes.

As for the macbook, it could be old hardware or some 3rd party software installed. I have a MacBook Pro that is a 2011 model, and it too was really slow a few years back. This was because of new software releases and things I was asking the computer to do, were simply too much for the HDD to handle. Due to this, I installed a SSD and voila, I have a fast computer!

Actually, there is... if you have a backup and download the .ipsw file from the Apple server site. But it likely won’t help anyway because it’s likely due to corrupted files in the OS. Better to full restore to new and see if the issue resides.

They haven't changed anything. Apple has always blocked older versions, going back to the first iPhones almost 11 years ago. Typically when a new version comes out you can still install the immediately previous version for about a week. After that Apple's Activation Server will no longer sign it.

So that you replace your old iPad of course. They've admitted to slowing down iPhones finally! after getting busted. Why would anyone believe they don't do the same with iPads? I feel a huge class action lawsuit is likely in the near future.

Everybody thinks because Apple targeted one iPhone series to code into iOS 11 to slowdown iPhone 6/6S/6S+ models to prevent to thermal shutdown of the phone during peak processing activity for iPhone 6 models that have aging, degrading performing batteries, that Apple has been doing this to ALL iDevices all along.

Not true, Apple has NOT admitted to slowing any other older iPhone/iPod Touch or IPad models.

Apple just coded iOS 11 with code to slow CPU speeds in iPhone 6 model variants to keep them from constantly, consistently shutting down due to older battery performance!

I have and use a handful of iPad models and all of them work very well on their respective iOS versions.

IPad Li-ion batteries are MUCH larger in size, capacity and performance than those found in smaller phones.

iPads do not exhibit slow down issues due to any influence by Apple, the iOS version OR battery issues.

IPad that exhibit slowdowns from various iOS upgrades/updates do so for other reasons!

Stop posting ridiculous comments and fud!

These Apple Support Communities are not free flowing social media conversation communities.

If you do not have a question, advice or solution about a technical issue with an Apple Product, then you should NOT be signing up and posting anything in here!

catn0rth wrote:

So that you replace your old iPad of course. They've admitted to slowing down iPhones finally! after getting busted. Why would anyone believe they don't do the same with iPads? I feel a huge class action lawsuit is likely in the near future.

If you are intending to take part in legal action against Apple anything you say here is fair game to be part of it. Better to post nothing at all.