I’m still on an iPhone 7. I had the battery replaced a year ago, and I make sure to leave at least 20GB of storage available. With these measures it continues to be pretty snappy, even on iOS 15.4.
Yes 20GB is a must have to be free! I have SE2 and when I’m on 10-15GB storage left it just feels a lot slower compared to when it has around 20GB~ free. Even tho I’m on 14.8.1 it still happens a lot.
The one good thing about these home button SE models, is that will likely help keep updates going for older home button devices like the 7 for many many more years. Though I did have a problem for like a year where my home button would hardly recognize my finger. It was real annoying having to punch in my code every time, though it's been working fine for 6 months now. Did you ever have that problem?
@@The_real_paill_neverdies because he has an se 2 and that doesn't make sense when apple gives you 5 years of upgrades .. plus the se 3 just has incremental upgrades like processor, battery and 5G. Nothing game changing imo.
Agreed! Even my mom’s iPhone 7 with a terrible battery of 72% capacity is performing a lot better since updating to 15.4 this week. My iPhone 11 with a capacity of 98% is also working much much better than 15.3 was
Actually, some people recommend you change the battery on your iPhone ever 30-36 months. Also, be aware that if you upgrade to a new iOS version, your phone may be "reindexing" certain code for a couple of days as a gets used to the new version of IOS, causing slowdowns. If you phone is still lagging after a couple of days, it may be time to get a new battery installed.
That’s what mine did. It slowed way down for a few days, but it’s a lot faster again. I never had an upgrade do that, or maybe I just didn’t notice, I use my iPad more than my phone.
actually it doesn't slow down your iphone. new updates are always gonna include new features and new stuff so basically when you upgrade your phones is gonna use more of the CPU and ram because of the new features and new stuff that are running there for your phone gets a little slower every year. that's why apple releases new phones every year. so the updated processor could handle all the features in the software. if this is something you can't understand sorry your stupid. not just apple does this. every company that makes hardware and software is on the same boat. this is what exactly happens. it has nothing to do with what you read on the internet about codes my friend
I don't know if anyone is willing to buy iPhone batteries and then open up their iPhone to swap them that often. I mean, some people don't even upgrade the batteries in their smoke/CO detectors every 6 months as suggested and those batteries are super cheap and power a device that will literally save their life. Also I have tried to replace a battery in an old iPhone, not my main phone and found out it is hard to do. I screwed up somehow because the Touch ID stopped working. This is why people go to the Genius bar or just give up and upgrade their phone anyway.
@@uthmanbaksh3530 It’s 50€(60$) to change the battery in authorized resellers so I think that’s not a big price to pay for 2 more years of using your iPhone with genuine battery
Maybe instead of ‘your battery and hardware can’t meet the demands of newer operating systems’ it should be that newer operating systems don’t demand so much from your processor. I understand that technology progresses quickly, but it’s ridiculous that a processor made 3.5 years ago like the A12 Bionic would struggle to keep up with running iOS 15.
Unfortunately, Apple upgrades their chips heavily each year and chooses to create features that focus on those chips. The A12 Bionic CAN easily run those new features, it just requires the battery to not be degraded in the 80-85% range. Apple also doesn't want to dis-include those features for older phones, even if it means the slowdown exists for devices with a degraded battery.
Seriously considering buying an iphone, and unsurprisinglg this channel was recommended. After several videos from this channel I've concluded that Apple can do no wrong, and despite being a for profit corporation the reason is never about profit. This channel simply repeats Apple's rhetoric with no actual testing and benchmarking on their claim. Total waste of time.
Has Apple ever heard about software optimization? They can easily optimize their OS to demand less power from the battery if they want to. You don't have to defend every Apple decision. I own 4 Apple products but still don't get their actions sometimes, like removing charging brick from the package.
Apple had a choice of making the iPhone more expensive or removing the brick. They chose the latter so that people won’t complain about Apple charging too much for an iPhone. And here you are complaining
Right? It's only free if Apple determines there is something wrong with your battery. I had Apple care plus on my 12 pro max and I felt battery degraded fast but they ran " their diagnostic" test on it and told me there's nothing wrong and that the battery is fine. 🤦🏻♂️😪
Lol it's also super rare & hard af to get you're iPhone below 80% in 1 year or even 2 years without a rare issues. Even then you've paid like $70/$140 for the 'free' replacement in apple care costs
Good thing that Apple hasn't bent over backwards to make it harder for anyone but Apple to replace the battery! This comment would look pretty stupid if that were the case :O
While I love these short and to-the-point videos, I really miss the old style videos that AE made. I definitely missed what the reason for the change was but I wonder what those videos would look like today.
He used to stretch every video for more than 10 minutes because it would generate more money. Since TH-cam changed this, it’s not needed anymore to waste everyones time for more than 10 minutes
@@Paniekzaaiertje that's not true. TH-cam only allowed you to add midroll ads if your video was 10 minutes or longer. The only thing that's changed is the video length limit has reduced to 8 minutes
I did an experiment with my iPad Air 2, I let it on iOS 8.4 until the App Store closed for iOS 8. It was running perfectly, like day one, even 5 years later. When the App Store finally closed, I updated to iPadOS 13, and it suddenly got A LOT SLOWER. Full of stutters, considerably slower to open anything. So yeah, big annual iOS updates do slow down your Apple device, considerably so by the time the latest ones comes out. And it's not battery related
Yeah, because if they didn't your device would heat up fast as hell. Maybe you should look into how hardware works, if it tries to put the processing power all at once like it's supposed to on a degraded battery old device, the device may even just break consuming all that power from a degraded battery. Fun fact! Replacing the battery in those older models, actually got rid of said slowdown! Wow!
@@bemwy I was just pointing out that they lost a lawsuit bc they didn't clearly state they were slowing down older devices, if they did it and told ppl, I wouldn't really care. But they did it without warning and France rightfully fined them. Maybe you should look in to how law works ;) Also I'd like to think I know a little about hardware considering I took a course in it
My mom’s iPhone 6s is running on the latest version iOS. That’s 7 years of software support, I commend Apple on doing this. When we had her battery replaced it was pretty snappy like you said, although her battery levels have come down again but it’s still as snappy as my sister’s new Android phone and actually more reliable than that. I always knew that it was battery degradation and actually liked the fact that Apple slows down the phone if the battery has degraded badly, that way it won’t have a hard shutdown like other phones do when their battery is degraded. This was actually done in hopes that it would keep the phone running for longer with the same battery so Apple was actually trying to make the consumer retain the phone for longer not the other way around. Sadly they were accused for the opposite but in return we got more transparency for our battery health which is nice.
This is exactly right. I used to own many Androids before my iPhone 11 now. My Androids didn't have battery management so once my battery started degrading pretty bad, my phone would just crash, overheat, or shut off randomly and get in those nasty boot loops. Terrible. iPhones on the other hand gradually slows down while maintaining stability and reliability. I might replace my battery on my phone sometime this year. Should probably get another solid few years out of it.
You weren't paying attention. Battery health is only part of the reason a phone slows down. The new OS is written for recent processors. If you have an old processor, you're going to experience slow downs. This is essentially the same issue for all computers.
This vid is stupid and incorrect and I worked at Apple fo 8 years. Because the devices should begin to struggle even on the same ios if the Battery degrades. Since it is a hardware related problem the new ”powerhunry ios” should only run the battery dry faster but not slow down performance. Why make an update available for older phones if its more ”power hungry/slowing down” in the first place? They want to sell. I lied, we all had to lie about it but we knew that the spftware was slowing down phones.
@@amarg1650 Your comment is stupid and incorrect and you are such a liar. If you were to work at Apple for 8 years, you would have a signed contract legally binding you against any claims against the company after leaving it. Also, the software was not slowing down phones. I had an iPhone 6s running iOS 15.2 and it was SLOW as hell. Until I replaced the battery. WHICH IS HARDWARE. Not to mention, there's no way you worked at apple when you misspelled the words: for, iOS, power-hungry, software, AND your grammar is not even functionally correct. Random capital letters in the middle of sentences, shortening the word video to vid, and in-fact, calling the video "stupid" shows not only that you have no etiquette, but it also shows that you're lying, psychologically. Not to mention, if you worked at Apple for 8 years, why are you here commenting on a TH-cam video? You should be out relaxing and chilling at home, watching a movie with plenty of new technology with your huge employee discount, and you should probably also be working, or retired, since you have "Worked at Apple for 8 years" in your resume. + ratio + L bozo + cry about it
@@bemwy It's not like all people working at Apple become millionaires and don't need work ever again or even if they were millionaires it's not like millionaires can't use YT and comment lmao, what a fouled logic here. However I think he meant he worked in some Apple Store and madenit sound like he was an Apple engineer or something like that. In addition even if what he said doesn't make complete sense, it's still partially correct, why is Apple bragging so much about their OS support when most older iPhones (4+ years old) struggle to support latest updates? It's not just a matter of battery, they talk about OS support and then they say they roll out the updates only designed for latest SoCs, that's not really great OS support. If you can't provide a good experience to your order phones, don't support them at all. They sold iPhones with 16-32GB of storage till like 2016/2017 and they expect to still have space left to download the latest update, that's just plainly lying from Apple, nothing more than that.
Thanks so much Greg for this video, in my school my friends have older iPhones and they asked me why is my iPhone slowing after a new software update, then I said idk and thank to this video I can explain to them why they are slowing down. And I will tell all of my friends to subscribe to this amazing channel.
After updating to iPadOS 15, my iPad 6th Gen felt slower, overheated so quickly and had worse battery life. So, I did a factory reset. After the factory reset, it became much faster and smoother. I tried performing a Browserbench Speedometer 2.0 and the score nearly doubled.
Yeah it's definitely suggested to perform a factory reset after OS update, mostly if the device is already some years old... I never do that, I'm on Android btw, and the phone takes awhile to fully take on latest updates, but I have so much stuff on my phone and that would be so annoying to perform factory reset every time.
The iPhone 6S Plus is under iOS 15.4 painfully slow even with a brand new original battery. So the battery is NOT the reason! The hardware is to old…especially the lack of RAM is a problem in the long run…if you would get 12 GB RAM with you 13 Pro instead of only 6…it would last maybe 10 instead of 5 years…and the 2 GB of the 6S Plus…well…are good for nothing!
Diving deeper into this can cause some questions because voltage of a battery does decline over time but the processor works within a set parameter. Software updates could also remove strings of unnecessary code making it more lightweight and responsive. AI is a big question for reduced performance but it's rarely seen as a hinder since those applications don't run continuously. I'm not a Software engineer but do understand the basic fundamentals.
So that means if you want a faster iPhone you have to have a better battery Better battery = strong performance average battery = 20% less performance when installing software update So that means if you have agood battery software update is for you if you ahve a Iphone 7 ( like me ) you need to stop doing those updates or change your battery
@@c0d1ngclips25 That's only half true. They did loose a law case. But only because they did not disclose the reason why they slow down phones with failing batteries (they do this to prevent your phone from crashing when an old battery can't deal with a sudden peak in power draw). They do disclose this now, and when your battery-health is below 80% they even provide a switch to turn this protection off.
@@Slurkz then why can't I choose which functions to dis-/enable? why complicate battery exchange? in case i'm unhappy with the performance of my device, why not let me downgrade or even let me run custom firmware if i intend to do so?
@@c0d1ngclips25 Battery management is very complex, and becomes outright unpredictable when degradation of your battery starts to happen, especially in combination with the millions of totally different custom use(r) cases, as you are suggesting you would like to be possible. Apple simply can’t support all these scenarios. Literally: customer support would become extremely complex and expensive, just to cater the small amount of people that like to have a fine(r) level of control. On top of that; allowing for custom firmware and OS downgrades (in combination with ease of use) would effectively kill Apple's ability to keep its high level of security, privacy and long sustainability in check. Most people don’t think about this very often: but in essence; your phone holds your life. With that in mind I think one should look out for the ecosystem with the highest level of stability, privacy, security and ease of use. This ‘bundle’ can be very challenging and costly for tech companies to achieve & maintain. That’s what Apple excels at, and that’s what you pay for. (Although actually: if you play it smart, your TCO (Total Cost Of Ownership) within the Apple ecosystem can turn out to be significantly lower than the competition's.) But if you want a much higher level of control, while you know precisely what you’re doing, and you enjoy spending all the time it requires to stay safe and stable: maybe Apple is not your brand. For instance: A firmware flashed *FairPhone* could be a better option.
I'm still using my iPhone 6S and I'm on iOS 15.3, the latest version that I upgraded to a couple of days ago. I haven't seen any degradation of apps so far. I'm still using the 6S because I love the 3.5mm audio jack built-in.
Yes, it is true, and was proven by an ex Apple person & in court from lawsuit. You’re wrong. The batteries don’t degrade & age as fast & as much like/as you think. They’re forced to performing worse by Apple on purpose, hence why if you buy that special charger that returns your battery to normal/‘peak’ performance, your phone & battery works fine again after
I didn’t run into problems with iOS 15.x.x on my iPhone 6S. It seems to run smoother & faster overall. It could be because I replaced the battery a few months ago.
i upgraded from the 6s to the xr over christmas because my 6s had become completely unusable on ios 15. the battery life was like 2 hours and i had 100% battery health. i miss the headphone jack and touch id but i'm still glad i updgraded. hope your 6s doesn't run into the same issues!
@@abstractcities yeah, battery life on iOS 15 on an iPhone 6S isn’t good. I get maybe 2.5 hours of screen on time with heavy use before I have to charge it. Fortunately, I do have an iPhone 13 Pro Max as well. & battery life that thing is stellar.
I literally have an iPad Pro 11 inch 2021 model and I feel this most recent update heavily slowed down my iPad, the battery drains so quick, and most of the time the 120hz refresh doesn’t even work and I’m stuck with 60hz, not to mention all of the bugs on the daily. I seriously restart this thing all the time. And all of these things are only in the most recent update.
I have the 6s, still saving up for a newer iPhone.. I changed the battery of it on the chirstmas eve for US$29 (PHP 1500) and it's currently doing a great job STILL..
That's not the bottom line at all; the whole point of this video was to inform people that a old iPhone is not slowing down due to maliciousness on Apple's side, but rather the new software simply being more demanding on the CPU.
"Which is free if you purchased AppleCare+" so it's not free. Because you paid for it. Same applies to "free with PS+" or "free with Game Pass" etc., stop considering paid elements free.
1:50 Battery replacements actually are not free with AppleCare+. They’re only free if the battery is faulty, not if they just degrade over time. I bought AppleCare+ with my 11 Pro Max back in 2019, and went to get a new battery in October 2021 because my AppleCare+ was about to expire and thought it would be free… I was denied because my battery wasn’t faulty, it had simply degraded.
The first thing I noticed after the 'upgrade' was how hot my laptop was. I could barely touch it. Then I noticed my wif-fi symbol had reduced from full strength. Rot in hell apple. This is your back-door way of making stuff redundant so you force us to replace it.
@@jor4n767 well, If I was CEO i would do anything necessary to make profit. In the end, the end users should be smart enough to make the correct choice.
@@jor4n767 well, there's nothing new going on in the mobile phone market if you see. Every brand is just making faster chargers. That's the only new thing they are introducing. I don't think in the coming future like 3-4 years down the line, there will be anything innovative. That's just my thinking bcoz whatever we have in a mobile phone is kind of enough. So apple is only going to stretch existing things as long as they can to make the profit. Bcoz if they provide every feature of Android phone (which they can), they will have nothing to provide for the coming future. For instance they can provide fingerprint scanner on screen, which they will after 10 years just to call it revolutionary.
This cant be real... a fx prosser can run windows 11. A processor that is a decade old. A phone that cost about $1000 should last 5 or more years with little to no slowdowns. My pc was $800 i still run games on high its almost 6 years old. My phone is the cheapest Samsung model from 2 years ago no slow downs nothing. Thats just crazy, this is a cult.
@@mrmrwayne9850 I actually upgraded from the 7. I would have kept the 7 if it wasn’t for my battery dying all the time. Since I got the 12 Pro, I opted to using my phone more, in turn is killing my battery much faster.
@@mrmrwayne9850 totally understand. The premium phones are no joke with the $1000 and up price tag. Realistically, I would have been fine getting the nonpro version, or even the new SE.
How about Apple pops up a warning or disclaimer to older generation iPhones before an update is started, to inform them that the latest software may slow down their device because it's old or due to battery degradation. But I guess Apple thinks users whose devices is slowed by a new update with likely upgrade their device instead of downgrading their software
This is a little thing but. When I upgraded to iOS 15 on my iPhone 8 on TH-cam, when flicking down from a playing video to recommended it lagged just a little. But it was noticeable. But later it’s gone. Dunno why I said this but here
I am on an iPhone XR with 88% battery health and around 55/64GB used space and my phone definitely feels slower than when I first got it. I may try wiping and restoring to see if that speeds things back up.
Don't upgrade your phone past 2 iOS of the original one your phone comes with. Phones are paid off in 2 years with most phone plans, and most people swap them out at the 2 year mark since they are "due for an upgrade". They slow down your phone to encourage this some more.
Maaann I don’t think it’s across the board. My XR still has the original battery, its at 85% battery health and it still works pretty well. I play COD Mobile Genshin Impact, it all works snappy and fine
Can someone explain why camera photos takes so long to show up on photos app and any app using pictures? So frustrating if you need to send an email or message of a photo very quickly. 🙏
When I exit out of the app and use another one, it seems normal until I resume on the other app that I was using previously using and it just restarts the app
I have an Iphone 12, running the latest IOS and i notice it being laggy and unresponsive to my tough on screen sometimes, and the battery on this phone is at 89% max capacity
Is this channel related to Simply Tech? Because they have videos in almost the same topics but yours are always first. Or are they just cloning your channel content ideas?
This is precisely why I personally replaced the battery in my iPhone 11 at the end of last year, after only less than a couple years of use. I’m getting the same performance I received when I first purchased said iPhone. But, I’ve yet to replace the battery in my iPad Pro (owned since late 2019), without any compromise in performance and that’s because an iPhone is used far frequently than an iPad. We keep them turned on much longer than we should to stay in touch using LTE/GSM.
I noticed a massive slowdown when I upgraded my iOS to 15.4 and I have a habit of keeping phones forever. I still have my pink Razr flip phone. Why am I like this? I have an 11 and searched what settings to change to increase battery life. As long as my phone lets me play music while I work, then I’m happy. I don’t want to talk to people, I especially hate talking on the phone.
Same evening, the update (22/08/22 Australia) the update on my MacBook Pro and IPhone SE 1yo both effected. MacBook won’t start up, iPhone se struggled from a no charge stand point to even stay on. I noticed quite quickly after update during my daily phone usage, wasn’t happy persay. It’s definitely an interesting topic for myself. 🤔
hey, i have a question i have a ipad 8th gen it’s having some issues with certain apps can you make a video about it ( this started when i updated to ios 15)
I just updated to IOS 15.4 on my current phone, an iPhone 8. It runs even smoother than it already did. Very fast, very reliable still. It’s 4 years old.
My iPhone SE isn't usable anymore after this fucking update. Before with iOS 12 everything was super responsive and fast and everything worked like a dream. Now the apps often freeze or don't react at all anymore. It's a catastrophy Apple!
Damn so it recommends you to upgrade everyday and it makes it lag for older iphones, maybe if they just made a separate update for older phones then we do not need to spend money on apple plus but of course they would want you to get apple plus because they love MONEY
I’m still on an iPhone 7. I had the battery replaced a year ago, and I make sure to leave at least 20GB of storage available.
With these measures it continues to be pretty snappy, even on iOS 15.4.
Yes 20GB is a must have to be free! I have SE2 and when I’m on 10-15GB storage left it just feels a lot slower compared to when it has around 20GB~ free. Even tho I’m on 14.8.1 it still happens a lot.
The one good thing about these home button SE models, is that will likely help keep updates going for older home button devices like the 7 for many many more years. Though I did have a problem for like a year where my home button would hardly recognize my finger. It was real annoying having to punch in my code every time, though it's been working fine for 6 months now. Did you ever have that problem?
ohh free storage is good idea xD im full full full
@@maek555 why dont you buy the SE 3?
@@The_real_paill_neverdies because he has an se 2 and that doesn't make sense when apple gives you 5 years of upgrades .. plus the se 3 just has incremental upgrades like processor, battery and 5G. Nothing game changing imo.
For me it seems like my iPhone gets faster after the software update and run even smoother
Agreed!
Even my mom’s iPhone 7 with a terrible battery of 72% capacity is performing a lot better since updating to 15.4 this week.
My iPhone 11 with a capacity of 98% is also working much much better than 15.3 was
Same here , I have an Xs, for some reason it’s smoother
@@leighton12 I have an x and I do feel it’s slower since I updated to 15.3
ITS ALMOST AS IF THEY ARE IMPROVING THE SOFTWARE!?! 😱😱😱
@@Nexus7_ same with the iphone 8
Actually, some people recommend you change the battery on your iPhone ever 30-36 months. Also, be aware that if you upgrade to a new iOS version, your phone may be "reindexing" certain code for a couple of days as a gets used to the new version of IOS, causing slowdowns. If you phone is still lagging after a couple of days, it may be time to get a new battery installed.
That’s what mine did. It slowed way down for a few days, but it’s a lot faster again. I never had an upgrade do that, or maybe I just didn’t notice, I use my iPad more than my phone.
actually it doesn't slow down your iphone. new updates are always gonna include new features and new stuff so basically when you upgrade your phones is gonna use more of the CPU and ram because of the new features and new stuff that are running there for your phone gets a little slower every year. that's why apple releases new phones every year. so the updated processor could handle all the features in the software. if this is something you can't understand sorry your stupid. not just apple does this. every company that makes hardware and software is on the same boat. this is what exactly happens. it has nothing to do with what you read on the internet about codes my friend
I don't know if anyone is willing to buy iPhone batteries and then open up their iPhone to swap them that often. I mean, some people don't even upgrade the batteries in their smoke/CO detectors every 6 months as suggested and those batteries are super cheap and power a device that will literally save their life. Also I have tried to replace a battery in an old iPhone, not my main phone and found out it is hard to do. I screwed up somehow because the Touch ID stopped working. This is why people go to the Genius bar or just give up and upgrade their phone anyway.
@@uthmanbaksh3530 It’s 50€(60$) to change the battery in authorized resellers so I think that’s not a big price to pay for 2 more years of using your iPhone with genuine battery
I got my iPhone XR in June of 2019 and since then my battery is at 94% capacity, I take care of my battery and so should y’all
Maybe instead of ‘your battery and hardware can’t meet the demands of newer operating systems’ it should be that newer operating systems don’t demand so much from your processor. I understand that technology progresses quickly, but it’s ridiculous that a processor made 3.5 years ago like the A12 Bionic would struggle to keep up with running iOS 15.
Laughs in A10 bionic, and 128GB storage
Unfortunately, Apple upgrades their chips heavily each year and chooses to create features that focus on those chips. The A12 Bionic CAN easily run those new features, it just requires the battery to not be degraded in the 80-85% range. Apple also doesn't want to dis-include those features for older phones, even if it means the slowdown exists for devices with a degraded battery.
I have an XS and it's still runs like butter even with the iOS 15
Seriously considering buying an iphone, and unsurprisinglg this channel was recommended. After several videos from this channel I've concluded that Apple can do no wrong, and despite being a for profit corporation the reason is never about profit.
This channel simply repeats Apple's rhetoric with no actual testing and benchmarking on their claim. Total waste of time.
Can somebody with iphone xr fact check if their phone is slowing down by ios 15?
Has Apple ever heard about software optimization? They can easily optimize their OS to demand less power from the battery if they want to. You don't have to defend every Apple decision. I own 4 Apple products but still don't get their actions sometimes, like removing charging brick from the package.
Bro chill man
Theyre actually better optimized at the cost of speed and internet usage.
Dude you deserve more likes.
@@nikolasgunadi765 "cost of speed" its not optimized then. Optimization is making something more efficient without compromises.
Apple had a choice of making the iPhone more expensive or removing the brick. They chose the latter so that people won’t complain about Apple charging too much for an iPhone. And here you are complaining
I don't see any lagging on my original SE running iOS 15.4. Actually, it gets better with every update!
Same with the iphone 8. Why the newest every year when you can buy a m1 mac instead!
It got bad with iOS 15 and iOS 15.1 but it got a lot better with iOS 15.3
Well what’s your battery percentage?
@@FireCraftEntertainment 86%
@@Sinna94 mines at 82 😭
"which is free if you have purchased apple care plus"-🤣🤣🤣 jokes like these
Right? It's only free if Apple determines there is something wrong with your battery. I had Apple care plus on my 12 pro max and I felt battery degraded fast but they ran " their diagnostic" test on it and told me there's nothing wrong and that the battery is fine. 🤦🏻♂️😪
Lol it's also super rare & hard af to get you're iPhone below 80% in 1 year or even 2 years without a rare issues. Even then you've paid like $70/$140 for the 'free' replacement in apple care costs
*Replacing the battery* is the most optimised solution to this problem!
Good thing that Apple hasn't bent over backwards to make it harder for anyone but Apple to replace the battery! This comment would look pretty stupid if that were the case :O
@@ExclamationMarx sarcasm huh?
@@shranikdua3442 Yes. An immense quantity of sarcasm
@@ExclamationMarx i am very confused.
Next video: "Why iPhone has more excuses than features."
and we will get another 2 min video without actual content
While I love these short and to-the-point videos, I really miss the old style videos that AE made. I definitely missed what the reason for the change was but I wonder what those videos would look like today.
He used to stretch every video for more than 10 minutes because it would generate more money. Since TH-cam changed this, it’s not needed anymore to waste everyones time for more than 10 minutes
@@Paniekzaaiertje that's not true. TH-cam only allowed you to add midroll ads if your video was 10 minutes or longer. The only thing that's changed is the video length limit has reduced to 8 minutes
Oh, I thought it was the part where he allows people to vote the topics for the next video.
@Nature's Picks nah, just left an unrelated comment
I agree, even the old background music I missed, Greg bring back the old style videos, and the voting poles please!
I did an experiment with my iPad Air 2, I let it on iOS 8.4 until the App Store closed for iOS 8. It was running perfectly, like day one, even 5 years later.
When the App Store finally closed, I updated to iPadOS 13, and it suddenly got A LOT SLOWER. Full of stutters, considerably slower to open anything.
So yeah, big annual iOS updates do slow down your Apple device, considerably so by the time the latest ones comes out.
And it's not battery related
Change the name of channel from "Apple Explained" to "Apple Justified"
This is exactly the reason i always hesitate upgrading my OS to the new versions both for MAC OS and IOS.
They weren't "accused" of slowing down older phones. They did. They got sued. They lost.
Yeah, because if they didn't your device would heat up fast as hell. Maybe you should look into how hardware works, if it tries to put the processing power all at once like it's supposed to on a degraded battery old device, the device may even just break consuming all that power from a degraded battery. Fun fact! Replacing the battery in those older models, actually got rid of said slowdown! Wow!
@@bemwy I was just pointing out that they lost a lawsuit bc they didn't clearly state they were slowing down older devices, if they did it and told ppl, I wouldn't really care. But they did it without warning and France rightfully fined them. Maybe you should look in to how law works ;)
Also I'd like to think I know a little about hardware considering I took a course in it
and of course this was not mentioned in the video
True, but nooo… AE needs to kiss apples arse once again xD good lord
My mom’s iPhone 6s is running on the latest version iOS. That’s 7 years of software support, I commend Apple on doing this. When we had her battery replaced it was pretty snappy like you said, although her battery levels have come down again but it’s still as snappy as my sister’s new Android phone and actually more reliable than that. I always knew that it was battery degradation and actually liked the fact that Apple slows down the phone if the battery has degraded badly, that way it won’t have a hard shutdown like other phones do when their battery is degraded. This was actually done in hopes that it would keep the phone running for longer with the same battery so Apple was actually trying to make the consumer retain the phone for longer not the other way around. Sadly they were accused for the opposite but in return we got more transparency for our battery health which is nice.
This is exactly right. I used to own many Androids before my iPhone 11 now. My Androids didn't have battery management so once my battery started degrading pretty bad, my phone would just crash, overheat, or shut off randomly and get in those nasty boot loops. Terrible. iPhones on the other hand gradually slows down while maintaining stability and reliability. I might replace my battery on my phone sometime this year. Should probably get another solid few years out of it.
@@thenorlard I replaced the battery on my iPhone 11 a few months ago and now it's brand spanking new again lol
@@thenorlard congrats buddy
Where do you go to have the battery replaced?
@@thecapone45 the apple store or any apple certified electronics place
So, will my friend's iPhone 3gs might stop being slow!
Guys, to keep your battery life healthy for as long as possible make sure you never let the battery lower thant 20%. Charge it!
Charge it from 20 to 85% tops.
mines 70%!
But a lot of the new features with the updates can’t be utilized on older iPhones so it shouldn’t be related to battery health.
You weren't paying attention. Battery health is only part of the reason a phone slows down. The new OS is written for recent processors. If you have an old processor, you're going to experience slow downs. This is essentially the same issue for all computers.
I was referring only to the main point of the video which was battery health.
This vid is stupid and incorrect and I worked at Apple fo 8 years. Because the devices should begin to struggle even on the same ios if the Battery degrades. Since it is a hardware related problem the new ”powerhunry ios” should only run the battery dry faster but not slow down performance. Why make an update available for older phones if its more ”power hungry/slowing down” in the first place? They want to sell. I lied, we all had to lie about it but we knew that the spftware was slowing down phones.
@@amarg1650 Your comment is stupid and incorrect and you are such a liar. If you were to work at Apple for 8 years, you would have a signed contract legally binding you against any claims against the company after leaving it. Also, the software was not slowing down phones. I had an iPhone 6s running iOS 15.2 and it was SLOW as hell. Until I replaced the battery. WHICH IS HARDWARE. Not to mention, there's no way you worked at apple when you misspelled the words: for, iOS, power-hungry, software, AND your grammar is not even functionally correct. Random capital letters in the middle of sentences, shortening the word video to vid, and in-fact, calling the video "stupid" shows not only that you have no etiquette, but it also shows that you're lying, psychologically. Not to mention, if you worked at Apple for 8 years, why are you here commenting on a TH-cam video? You should be out relaxing and chilling at home, watching a movie with plenty of new technology with your huge employee discount, and you should probably also be working, or retired, since you have "Worked at Apple for 8 years" in your resume. + ratio + L bozo + cry about it
@@bemwy It's not like all people working at Apple become millionaires and don't need work ever again or even if they were millionaires it's not like millionaires can't use YT and comment lmao, what a fouled logic here.
However I think he meant he worked in some Apple Store and madenit sound like he was an Apple engineer or something like that.
In addition even if what he said doesn't make complete sense, it's still partially correct, why is Apple bragging so much about their OS support when most older iPhones (4+ years old) struggle to support latest updates? It's not just a matter of battery, they talk about OS support and then they say they roll out the updates only designed for latest SoCs, that's not really great OS support. If you can't provide a good experience to your order phones, don't support them at all.
They sold iPhones with 16-32GB of storage till like 2016/2017 and they expect to still have space left to download the latest update, that's just plainly lying from Apple, nothing more than that.
personally I use iOS 13.4 on my iPhone SE 2020 with 89% battery health and it is a performance KING
As I clicked on this video and it started playing my iPad literally rebooted 😂
Damn, kinda insane that replacement batteries are $69 in the USA but in the UK they're like $110!
Thanks so much Greg for this video, in my school my friends have older iPhones and they asked me why is my iPhone slowing after a new software update, then I said idk and thank to this video I can explain to them why they are slowing down. And I will tell all of my friends to subscribe to this amazing channel.
After updating to iPadOS 15, my iPad 6th Gen felt slower, overheated so quickly and had worse battery life. So, I did a factory reset. After the factory reset, it became much faster and smoother. I tried performing a Browserbench Speedometer 2.0 and the score nearly doubled.
Yeah it's definitely suggested to perform a factory reset after OS update, mostly if the device is already some years old... I never do that, I'm on Android btw, and the phone takes awhile to fully take on latest updates, but I have so much stuff on my phone and that would be so annoying to perform factory reset every time.
The iPhone 6S Plus is under iOS 15.4 painfully slow even with a brand new original battery. So the battery is NOT the reason! The hardware is to old…especially the lack of RAM is a problem in the long run…if you would get 12 GB RAM with you 13 Pro instead of only 6…it would last maybe 10 instead of 5 years…and the 2 GB of the 6S Plus…well…are good for nothing!
Hmm… if it’s too slow, recommend turning off background app refresh
It looks like apple purposely make the upgrade for you to buy another one, my camera has lost the image quality and the battery started to run fast
Even after changing the battery, there is no change in performance. Why is this?
Diving deeper into this can cause some questions because voltage of a battery does decline over time but the processor works within a set parameter. Software updates could also remove strings of unnecessary code making it more lightweight and responsive.
AI is a big question for reduced performance but it's rarely seen as a hinder since those applications don't run continuously.
I'm not a Software engineer but do understand the basic fundamentals.
So that means if you want a faster iPhone you have to have a better battery
Better battery = strong performance average battery = 20% less performance when installing software update
So that means if you have agood battery software update is for you if you ahve a Iphone 7 ( like me ) you need to stop doing those updates or change your battery
This is such a great channel. I always learn valuable new things. Thanks, greg! 💜
don't fall for this. apple officially lost a law case where it was proven they intentionally slow down old devices.
@@c0d1ngclips25 That's only half true. They did loose a law case. But only because they did not disclose the reason why they slow down phones with failing batteries (they do this to prevent your phone from crashing when an old battery can't deal with a sudden peak in power draw). They do disclose this now, and when your battery-health is below 80% they even provide a switch to turn this protection off.
@@Slurkz then why can't I choose which functions to dis-/enable? why complicate battery exchange? in case i'm unhappy with the performance of my device, why not let me downgrade or even let me run custom firmware if i intend to do so?
@@c0d1ngclips25
Battery management is very complex, and becomes outright unpredictable when degradation of your battery starts to happen, especially in combination with the millions of totally different custom use(r) cases, as you are suggesting you would like to be possible.
Apple simply can’t support all these scenarios. Literally: customer support would become extremely complex and expensive, just to cater the small amount of people that like to have a fine(r) level of control.
On top of that; allowing for custom firmware and OS downgrades (in combination with ease of use) would effectively kill Apple's ability to keep its high level of security, privacy and long sustainability in check.
Most people don’t think about this very often: but in essence; your phone holds your life. With that in mind I think one should look out for the ecosystem with the highest level of stability, privacy, security and ease of use. This ‘bundle’ can be very challenging and costly for tech companies to achieve & maintain. That’s what Apple excels at, and that’s what you pay for. (Although actually: if you play it smart, your TCO (Total Cost Of Ownership) within the Apple ecosystem can turn out to be significantly lower than the competition's.)
But if you want a much higher level of control, while you know precisely what you’re doing, and you enjoy spending all the time it requires to stay safe and stable: maybe Apple is not your brand.
For instance: A firmware flashed *FairPhone* could be a better option.
I'm still using my iPhone 6S and I'm on iOS 15.3, the latest version that I upgraded to a couple of days ago. I haven't seen any degradation of apps so far. I'm still using the 6S because I love the 3.5mm audio jack built-in.
That's why android has an upgrade limit to the os when it comes to upgrading
Why battery health is reducing onece we update ?
Yes, it is true, and was proven by an ex Apple person & in court from lawsuit. You’re wrong. The batteries don’t degrade & age as fast & as much like/as you think. They’re forced to performing worse by Apple on purpose, hence why if you buy that special charger that returns your battery to normal/‘peak’ performance, your phone & battery works fine again after
why apple when comes new iphone 📱 sell only clasic 12 12 mini and no pro models
I didn’t run into problems with iOS 15.x.x on my iPhone 6S. It seems to run smoother & faster overall. It could be because I replaced the battery a few months ago.
i upgraded from the 6s to the xr over christmas because my 6s had become completely unusable on ios 15. the battery life was like 2 hours and i had 100% battery health. i miss the headphone jack and touch id but i'm still glad i updgraded. hope your 6s doesn't run into the same issues!
@@abstractcities yeah, battery life on iOS 15 on an iPhone 6S isn’t good. I get maybe 2.5 hours of screen on time with heavy use before I have to charge it. Fortunately, I do have an iPhone 13 Pro Max as well. & battery life that thing is stellar.
I literally have an iPad Pro 11 inch 2021 model and I feel this most recent update heavily slowed down my iPad, the battery drains so quick, and most of the time the 120hz refresh doesn’t even work and I’m stuck with 60hz, not to mention all of the bugs on the daily. I seriously restart this thing all the time. And all of these things are only in the most recent update.
what? i have ipad 7th gen but it doesnt drain that quickly
I have the 6s, still saving up for a newer iPhone.. I changed the battery of it on the chirstmas eve for US$29 (PHP 1500) and it's currently doing a great job STILL..
Bottom line: Apple makes it as difficult as possible to hang on to old device so you eventually throw in the towel and buy a new one.
why give a correct and concise answer when you can make a 2min video without answering the question
Mean they support devices for 7+ years vs andriod for 1-2 years.
That's not the bottom line at all; the whole point of this video was to inform people that a old iPhone is not slowing down due to maliciousness on Apple's side, but rather the new software simply being more demanding on the CPU.
I have upgraded the battery and still my iPhone lags and stutters. I have iPhone 12.
Great videos! Keep it up!
My Xr got a slower after a year and updated to iOS 15 the battery life is still at 90%
my launch day XR is at 85%
@@Lixxo my launch day xs max is at 82% i bought my XR at dec 2020
"Which is free if you purchased AppleCare+" so it's not free. Because you paid for it. Same applies to "free with PS+" or "free with Game Pass" etc., stop considering paid elements free.
Love the channel and content
1:56 nice
nice
Not funny
1:50 Battery replacements actually are not free with AppleCare+. They’re only free if the battery is faulty, not if they just degrade over time. I bought AppleCare+ with my 11 Pro Max back in 2019, and went to get a new battery in October 2021 because my AppleCare+ was about to expire and thought it would be free… I was denied because my battery wasn’t faulty, it had simply degraded.
The first thing I noticed after the 'upgrade' was how hot my laptop was. I could barely touch it. Then I noticed my wif-fi symbol had reduced from full strength. Rot in hell apple. This is your back-door way of making stuff redundant so you force us to replace it.
U know what i love that channel . Keep that quality
my ipad had a restart loop and then just... died after a software update and i literally have no idea what happened to 99% of the data on there
Why do custom ROMs on Android then make an old device extremely smooth on the newest software?
Thats my Honor 9 I bought in 2017.
Bought for 130$. Still running snappy as hell
@@dhirajgawande007 that's my point. Apple just wants users to upgrade by putting out sucky updates.
@@jor4n767 well, If I was CEO i would do anything necessary to make profit. In the end, the end users should be smart enough to make the correct choice.
@@dhirajgawande007 true, but I would choose the ethical way by actually bringing something new, instead of ruining older phones.
@@jor4n767 well, there's nothing new going on in the mobile phone market if you see. Every brand is just making faster chargers. That's the only new thing they are introducing. I don't think in the coming future like 3-4 years down the line, there will be anything innovative. That's just my thinking bcoz whatever we have in a mobile phone is kind of enough.
So apple is only going to stretch existing things as long as they can to make the profit. Bcoz if they provide every feature of Android phone (which they can), they will have nothing to provide for the coming future. For instance they can provide fingerprint scanner on screen, which they will after 10 years just to call it revolutionary.
Dear Greg, apple accepted that they intentionally downgrade the performance by slowing the older iphones.
I clicked on the video knowing that it would never admit this lmao
@@thebosscrystal cuz this channel is an apple boot licker. I like apple, but this is just hard to watch
This cant be real... a fx prosser can run windows 11. A processor that is a decade old. A phone that cost about $1000 should last 5 or more years with little to no slowdowns. My pc was $800 i still run games on high its almost 6 years old. My phone is the cheapest Samsung model from 2 years ago no slow downs nothing. Thats just crazy, this is a cult.
My dad has an iphone 5s for almost a decade now and it still works which is just amazing
Not to flex or anything, but my first gen iPhone SE is still running strong with its 70% battery capacity 😅
Does Apple still replace batteries in the original iPhone SE? I know they had a $35 battery exchange for older phones a few years ago.
But why are the software updates never load fully ?? See that the loading bar never gets full ??
My 12 Pro is at 83%. I’m excited for my phone to slow down.
Good luck. I’m on an iPhone 8 and it runs like it was brand new still.
@@mrmrwayne9850 I actually upgraded from the 7. I would have kept the 7 if it wasn’t for my battery dying all the time. Since I got the 12 Pro, I opted to using my phone more, in turn is killing my battery much faster.
@@danielschmaderer Oh yes, that’s one thing to mention. My battery life sucks. I would upgrade but that’s way too much money 😔
@@mrmrwayne9850 totally understand. The premium phones are no joke with the $1000 and up price tag. Realistically, I would have been fine getting the nonpro version, or even the new SE.
@@danielschmaderer Understandable. I'm very envious of you, though!
iOS 15 killed my iPhone 6S Plus
Edit: I changed the battery 1 week prior to updating. It’s slow and buggy
@AppleExplained
Hey Greg 🤗
Please Do A Video On “Why WhatsApp Isn’t Available for iPad”
Hope You Saw This 🤔
Is this why my iPhone 5s and iPad mini fourth generation lag an absolute crap ton after powering on, even when the software has not updated?
Apple not only has been accused of slowing down iPhones, they have been found guilty and fined for it.
yep.
How about Apple pops up a warning or disclaimer to older generation iPhones before an update is started, to inform them that the latest software may slow down their device because it's old or due to battery degradation. But I guess Apple thinks users whose devices is slowed by a new update with likely upgrade their device instead of downgrading their software
"newer OS should reduce bugs"
not really. new MAJOR versions usually introduce more bugs than they eliminate.
new MINOR or PATCH versions kill bugs.
This is a little thing but. When I upgraded to iOS 15 on my iPhone 8 on TH-cam, when flicking down from a playing video to recommended it lagged just a little. But it was noticeable. But later it’s gone. Dunno why I said this but here
So when I plugged my iPhone 12 Pro Max in with magnet charger instead of green in the circle it showed whit?
I am on an iPhone XR with 88% battery health and around 55/64GB used space and my phone definitely feels slower than when I first got it. I may try wiping and restoring to see if that speeds things back up.
Don't upgrade your phone past 2 iOS of the original one your phone comes with. Phones are paid off in 2 years with most phone plans, and most people swap them out at the 2 year mark since they are "due for an upgrade". They slow down your phone to encourage this some more.
I have a 2014 iPad (in fact, I watched this video on it) and I had to delete some UI animations and unnecessary features because it is slow.
Maaann I don’t think it’s across the board. My XR still has the original battery, its at 85% battery health and it still works pretty well. I play COD Mobile Genshin Impact, it all works snappy and fine
My 8 is at 78%, same
my XR is launch day and still at 85 aswell, but mine is definitely slower lol
So basically they slow down the old phones by making the new operating systems more resource intensive 👀
That’s part of re-calibration. For your device to adjust with the new software.
Can you explain why True Tone is turn on by default when you turn on the iPhone for the first time?
Can someone explain why camera photos takes so long to show up on photos app and any app using pictures? So frustrating if you need to send an email or message of a photo very quickly. 🙏
Can the same be said for ipadOS?
I want you to make a video on the $999 iMac stand...I bet that's something you just can't find anything to support the price
When I exit out of the app and use another one, it seems normal until I resume on the other app that I was using previously using and it just restarts the app
To force you to buy a new iPhone.
I have an Iphone 12, running the latest IOS and i notice it being laggy and unresponsive to my tough on screen sometimes, and the battery on this phone is at 89% max capacity
You're the best apologist I've ever seen in my life.
After downloaded and prepared the downloaded iOS, you should see shutters when unlocking the device
Is this channel related to Simply Tech? Because they have videos in almost the same topics but yours are always first. Or are they just cloning your channel content ideas?
Running iOS 15.3 on my iPhone 11 with a new battery still runs everything as smooth as the day I bought it in 2019. Least for what I use it for.
This is precisely why I personally replaced the battery in my iPhone 11 at the end of last year, after only less than a couple years of use. I’m getting the same performance I received when I first purchased said iPhone. But, I’ve yet to replace the battery in my iPad Pro (owned since late 2019), without any compromise in performance and that’s because an iPhone is used far frequently than an iPad. We keep them turned on much longer than we should to stay in touch using LTE/GSM.
can you do why dose iphone ran out of battery fast when update a new softwae
I’m still on an iPhone 7. No lag .Never changed the the battery.
@Apple Explained
Can u make a video about why iPads don’t have wireless charging
Could you please explain why the face id on iPhones won’t work when the phone is on its side??
I noticed a massive slowdown when I upgraded my iOS to 15.4 and I have a habit of keeping phones forever. I still have my pink Razr flip phone. Why am I like this? I have an 11 and searched what settings to change to increase battery life. As long as my phone lets me play music while I work, then I’m happy. I don’t want to talk to people, I especially hate talking on the phone.
Thanks, one of the most useful videos you have ever made!
What is a legacy iphone? Also why are they eliminating iPhone 11 and 12? I would appreciate if you do a video explaining this concepts
Same evening, the update (22/08/22 Australia) the update on my MacBook Pro and IPhone SE 1yo both effected. MacBook won’t start up, iPhone se struggled from a no charge stand point to even stay on. I noticed quite quickly after update during my daily phone usage, wasn’t happy persay.
It’s definitely an interesting topic for myself. 🤔
Tbh my iPhone se has been lagging since the update and apps will just freeze for a good minute then my phone just resets
hey, i have a question i have a ipad 8th gen it’s having some issues with certain apps can you make a video about it ( this started when i updated to ios 15)
Why apple doesn’t make official cases for airpods line up ??
I just updated to IOS 15.4 on my current phone, an iPhone 8. It runs even smoother than it already did. Very fast, very reliable still. It’s 4 years old.
Exactly the point they are indirectly forcing u to upgrade since updating needs more processing power & battery power
that’s just a myth i have ios 15 on an xs and it’s never performed faster
Next video idea: Why You Can Change Apple Watch Bands
My iPhone SE isn't usable anymore after this fucking update.
Before with iOS 12 everything was super responsive and fast and everything worked like a dream. Now the apps often freeze or don't react at all anymore. It's a catastrophy Apple!
I have an iPhone 11 and it’s at 91%, is it gonna be ok if I upgrade to iOS 15??
Damn so it recommends you to upgrade everyday and it makes it lag for older iphones, maybe if they just made a separate update for older phones then we do not need to spend money on apple plus but of course they would want you to get apple plus because they love MONEY
I have an iPad mini 4 that I maybe used 3 times total. After updating it to the latest it’s basically useless now.
Love your videos it’s amazing 🤩