iOS 10 painfully slow on iphone 6

FWIW I was dreading upgrading my iPhone 6 Plus to iOS 11 because I'd assumed it would only make things worse but finally had to bite the bullet y'day. It "feels" somewhat faster - or at least not worse - although this could easily be a by-product of the fresh upgrade; as mentioned in my previous reply, things tend to get worse after a couple of weeks' use.

I'm expecting delivery of an X today to replace it, so Apple still have me well locked in their eco-system. To be fair, there aren't really any alternatives these days for those not comfortable with their private data being sold off.

I remain convinced that the sluggishness - and other unpleasant artefacts - is caused by the low amount of RAM in these older devices. For instance, my iPad mini 4 (same CPU but twice the RAM of my 6+) is still absolutely fine. Can't help but wonder if this might be related with Apple's reluctance to document the amount of RAM in their official specs... oh well...

Same situation here. iPhone 6 64GB started getting really slow about a year ago. Clean install did nothing. Super laggy. I've deleted all pictures, music, and most apps. No effect, still slow. Purchased Iphone 8 today. Works well.

I have noticed a major slowdown in Safari with my iPhone 6, iPad and MacPro laptop. I doubt I'll spend any money on more Apple products. When these need replacing, I'll elsewhere. The slowdown and prices put me out of the Apple

market.

FOODforLOVE wrote:

I have noticed a major slowdown in Safari with my iPhone 6, iPad and MacPro laptop. I doubt I'll spend any money on more Apple products. When these need replacing, I'll elsewhere. The slowdown and prices put me out of the Apple market.

You should always chose the tool that best meets your needs and budget.

I Have done all the recommended resets, Apple sent me , getting to the stage of wondering have Apple lost the plot after all I was one of the first to buy an I phone in Ireland and have been loyal ever since but am now feeling very disappointed, one of my daughters has a Gallexy and is over the moon about it, so perhaps time to say good by to Mr Apple, but with all my apps and the normal ease of use still doddering so will give it one last try

My iPhone 6 128gb is also painfully slow since the iso10 release and despite contact with Apple it has not been resolved!! Think we should all move to Samsung unless apple sort out the problem of their own making Negley

Same problem here with my iPhone 6 on ios 11 with a newer battery.

I tap camera. By the time it comes up I have a beard. Then I tap the shutter button. 15 years later it snaps the photo.

I restored the phone as new. Not any faster.

I wouldn't have updated to ios 11 but the DAILY pop ups nagging to update that you can't simply dismiss or stop.

And the automatic download of ios updates. I am on a limited satellite internet and some updates use up to 15% of my monthly allocation! Let users choose when/if to download updates.

I've been an iPhone user since the iPhone 3G and all but one of the iPhones I've owned have slowed to a crawl.

No more iPhones for me!

Rebooting doesn’t help.

Me too....it’s been INCREDIBILY SLOW IS RIGHT!

ITS SO FRUSTRATING!!! Why has this happened!!!!?????

No rebooting—NOTHING HAS HELPED!!!

My iPhone 6 is SOOOO slow after the recent updates.

I have the same problem with iPhone 6 64GB. It has been done by Apple deliberately and unless Apple makes it faster again, nothing will work.

I don't understand how to recover using iTunes and I don't know how to use iCloud for a backup. Could you assist?

rglenncpht

For Text : 661 432 0756 Last resort : rglenn772@gmail.com

This just happened for my wife's iPhone 6S today. She was experiencing the same issues as most people on this thread. I went through her phone, deleted a bunch of old texts, cleared her safari history, deleted all her voice mails, and the phone started working normally afterwards. She still has 18gb in documents and data, I'd assume from whatsapp chats and other things like that.

ipadminihalf wrote:

This just happened for my wife's iPhone 6S today. She was experiencing the same issues as most people on this thread. I went through her phone, deleted a bunch of old texts, cleared her safari history, deleted all her voice mails, and the phone started working normally afterwards. She still has 18gb in documents and data, I'd assume from whatsapp chats and other things like that.

Any computer can have it's performance degraded if it doesn't have enough free storage space. Your solution was simple and sensible. Glad you got your wife's phone working properly again.

Best of luck.