Does your iPhone feel like it’s been running slower since the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus came out? It turns out there’s a good reason for that.
Data firm Statista plotted the historical trends of the search term “slow iPhone” across the past seven years, and discovered that invariably, it peaks when a new Apple phone gets released.
There are a couple reasons for that. First, the very fact that a “newer” iPhone has come out psychologically makes you feel like your old phone is slower.
But there’s also quite possibly a real slowness correlation at work there too. Apple tends to release new versions of iOS simultaneously with new iPhones, and major new iOS updates do tend to make older hardware run slower.
The lesson here? If you’re worried about your iPhone being slow, first of all, consider holding off on updates when Apple drops new versions of iOS until you see the benchmarks come in. And don’t overthink it: Just because Apple has released something faster, doesn’t mean your iPhone’s suddenly running slower.
Source: Statista
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
4 responses to “Why your iPhone suddenly feels slow”
I don’t know if I agree with this. When I jailbroke my phone, I installed an app that made the transition animation go fast and it completely took away the lag that we have on standard iOS. I wish we could set how fast the transition speed goes in the settings like the fonts and display size can be adjusted.
And that’s why we jailbreak :)
I’m aware that it’s pure superstition, yet I’m convinced that every iPhone I’ve ever owned has started acting glitchy a few weeks before a new model comes out. #AppleConspiracyTheories #iWantToBelieve
When people are shown an ORIGINAL iPhone 1, they are amazed at how fast it is.