I have an iPod touch 5th gen. capacity 56.4 GB, 30.7 GB avail.Currently it has iOS 9.2.1. Animated apps/games have been crashing for awhile. Will updating 9.3.5 make that worse or better?

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I have an iPod touch 5th gen. capacity 56.4 GB, 30.7 GB avail.Currently it has iOS 9.2.1. Animated apps/games have been crashing for awhile. Will updating 9.3.5 make that worse or better?

I have an iPod touch 5th gen. capacity 56.4 GB, 30.7 GB avail. (after permanently deleting my photos from the iPhoto trash and deleting 3 games). Currently it uses iOS 9.2.1. Animated apps/games have been crashing for awhile and am still having trouble even after the above deletions. I also close open apps (swiping up from the home screen) after using each one. I have rebooted the iPod several times and some games still have trouble opening. If am lucky enough to get them open, they crash. It is the more animated ones that do this. Will updating 9.3.5 make that worse or better?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Oct 17, 2016 6:59 PM

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MichelPM

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Oct 17, 2016 9:04 PM in response to anniesapple

In all honesty, your situation with some games not being playable on a 5th gen IPod Touch will probably be the same or worse, if you update your iPod Touch to iOS 9.3.5.

It maybe that the 5th gen iPod Touch isn't powerful enough to play these troublesome games.

A few things you could try before deciding to update.

In Settings app General settings panel, Accesibility, TURN ON Reduce Motion.

In Settings App, General settings panel, TURN OFF Background App Refresh.

In Settings App under Notifications, TURN OFF notifications for any apps that do not need or benefit from using Notifications.

If these games do not need WiFi or Bluetooth, make sure Bluetooth is off and try the games without WiFi.

Make sure there is nothing about your iPod Touch that is accessing Apple's iCloud when you don't need it to be.

Good Luck!

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anniesapple Author

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Oct 21, 2016 2:06 PM in response to MichelPM

Thanks so much for your help! I followed the suggestions you gave and, while some games (with animation and popup ads that load with the game or immediately after) are still not opening without crashing, I can occasionally get into the games. These do need wifi. I've decided not to update the iOS for now, since the updates will take up more room and possibly worsen the problem. Considering Apple's decision not to include the 5th generation iPod Touch in its iOS updates with the release of iOS 10, I know the 5th generation iPod has a limited time. So as long as I can get by with the other apps with 9.2.1 I will leave it. The updates between 9.2.1 and 9.3.5 seemed to have issues.

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MichelPM

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Oct 21, 2016 6:50 PM in response to anniesapple

The iPod 5th gen is 2012 technnology and has similar hardware architectures to the iPad 2 and 3, which has also been discontinued.

The iPad 2, 3, 1st generation iPad Mini and the 5th Gen iPod Touch are all ineligible and excluded from upgrading to iOS 10.

They all share similar hardware architectures.

A less powerful 1.0 Ghz CPU that Apple has deemed insufficiently powerful enough to even run the basic, barebones features of iOS 10

The 5th gen iPod Touch CPU is a clocked down 1.0 GHz to 800 Mhz and, like the iPad 2, only has 512 MBs of RAM.

Why would you want to upgrade to iOS 10, anyways?

Since iOS 8, older iDevices have only been getting the most basic of iOS features.

Older iDevice users get none of the newest and coolest cutting edge features that newer model iDevices, with better hardware specs, can handle with more aplomb.

The same older iDevice. users who whined and moaned and groaned that both iOS 8 and 9 slowed down the performance of their iDevices would come back, once again, in angry droves, with even more complaints of slowdowns under iOS 10.

Plus, the initial release of iOS 10, at the moment, seems riddled with bugs and undocumented feature omissions that current iOS upgraders are, currently, struggling with.

FYI,

Just because your iPod Touch 5th gen is no longer able to upgrade to the latest iOS doesn't mean youri iPod Touch is suddenly useless.

Your iPod Touch 5th gen will work as it always has and the apps you have installed on it will continue to update and receive some level of app updates relevent to your current iOS.

Most apps have a minimum iOS version they run under, anyways.

You have had four years of iOS upgrades and updates.

Your iPod Touch 5 will still do everything it does now and you will, get, at least, another full year, perhaps two, if you decide to you want to wait longer to purchase a new iPod Touch model.

I just needed to put that out there for you.

Your 5th Gen iPod Touch is NOT suddenly becoming obsolete.

Good Luck to you!

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anniesapple Author

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Oct 21, 2016 6:56 PM in response to MichelPM

Thanks for the additional info. I love my iPod and I don't consider it obsolete. As you said it will be useful for quite awhile longer. I'm just saying I realize that now that Apple doesn't support it with the new iOS coming out, it's just a matter of time for the other apps to do the same. That said, a number will continue to support it for quite awhile. So I'm happy with it; just with new updates of certain apps that demand more, crashing is a frequent experience. My question was whether or not to update to 9.3.5. That has been answered for me for now. Thanks again.

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