iOS 10 painfully slow on iphone 6

Why don't they warn you that your iPhone 6 will be near to useless if you upgrade your iOS

Everyone in my office is ready to jump ship to android

I have been a apple follower since for 27 years

Why don't they have an upgrade for 7 and for pre 7 phones

Dgmoff wrote:

Why don't they warn you that your iPhone 6 will be near to useless if you upgrade your iOS

Because it would be a lie. I've been using iOS 10 on my iPhone 6 since that software version was released. It works as well or better than it did under iOS 9. I did have an issue just prior to the release of 10.3.1. The phone was showing some significant slowdown. I restored it from a back up and haven't had any issues since. It was most likely a problem with some corrupted data.

Unless you have a hardware problem, there is no reason your iPhone 6 shouldn't run iOS 10 just fine. See the rest of the thread for troubleshooting suggestions.

1. Turn off battery saver

2. Reduce motions

3. Turn off push mail

4. Close apps which are running in the background

5. Install battery saver that clears the ram as well

6. Reboot your device n free up some storage

7. At the last reset your iPhone (factory reset)

8. Bang on!!! Your iPhone is back again!!

Virgoshubham wrote:

4. Close apps which are running in the background

Almost no apps run in the background. Double-tapping the Home button then force closing any apps you see there will often cause your phone to slow down as you have to relaunch apps when you need them again rather than simply unsuspend them.

Virgoshubham wrote:

6. Reboot your device n free up some storage

Rebooting your phone doesn't free up storage space. In certain circumstances it may free up working memory that didn't get properly released.

Turning off Low Power mode may speed the phone slightly up at the expense of the battery life. But none of these suggestions should be necessary if the phone is working properly. Not using features shouldn't be the first option. Solving the problem should be. Restoring the phone from a back up doesn't actually take very long and stands a good chances of resolving the issue completely. That will allow the user to continue to take advantage of all the features on their phone.

Best of luck.

Hi there,

I have exactly the same issue with my iPhone 6 126GB,

Performance is very low. I do have 2 the same devices. One is working fast, second very slow. I tried all what is possible, form restart, stops apps, delete apps, to restore. Nothing were helpful. My iPhone works slow. Trying to take a picture, needs 5-10 sec to start the app. I did performance test of both devices. Results shows difference, 50% slower performance of second iPhone. I started my experience with iPhone 3, then 4, 5, 5s, now 6. I am afraid if I will choose iPhone for my next new cellphone.

I have a 6+, 64GB which has been performing poorly on iOS 10 as reported by many in this thread. Some of the stock iOS apps were very slow: it took a very minimum of 4 seconds to launch Messages or the camera for example. My phone has 12GB of free storage.

I spent quite a few hours, preparing the phone to be factory reset. My initial plan was to manually restore my apps/data afterwards, through a mixture of off-line backups (photos) and iCloud sync features. Then I realized that there are some stock iOS apps (activity and health are the two I discovered) whose data can't be restored other than through an iTunes or iCloud backup. So the "solution" advocated by some of performing a factory reset without restoring a backup really cannot be qualified of such unless you're happy to loose some potentially very valuable data...

(Very) long story short, it took a good 4 hours to get my phone back to its former state, which entailed re-syncing my iTunes library. Needless to say this last point didn't complete cleanly and I'm still left with dozens of "ghost" songs, but that's another massive long standing Apple fail story which is told elsewhere.

Then my Apple Watch also had to be reset and took another hour or so to restore.

Next, I had to interact with call centres of two banks and one store card, whose apps had de-activated themselves due to the reset. In one case, I had to wait for a snail mail letter for functionality to be restored.

All in all, this little dance wasted well over a day of my life but I thought it was worth it because my iPhone was indeed back to something usable (meaning opening Messages now only took only about 2 seconds). However that joy was short lived because a couple of weeks later, the phone is back to its sluggish, barely usable self.

My gut feel is that the issue is down to the lack of RAM in the 6+ (only 1GB). This is certainly not to be read as an apology of Apple, even if they only "accidentally" figured out that doubling the RAM in following gens and piling up on memory requirements in iOS 10 meant that it accelerated the obsolescence of that particular (6) generation.

Same problem for me with IPhone 6 Plus 128GB.

It has 70Gb free.

In backed up to iCloud then erased the iPhone and restored it from the backup.

Didn't help at all.

I disabled background app refresh for all apps, doesn't help either.

I guess I have no choice but to buy iPhone 8 when it comes out. I'm going to miss the audio jack.

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!

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

If you have not restarted your iPhone since the update, try that: Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support.