[Electronics-Talk] Update slowing down old iPhones

[Jim Barbour]

I have two, mostly negative, thoughts about this.

First, this is a general response from Apple when They don’t know what else is wrong. It is what they ask you to do right before they swap out your phone. It doesn’t mean it never works, just that it is not a targeted solution to this particular problem.

Second, it is not possible for you to restore a fresh iOS on your phone and then restore your stuff. Restoring your stuff means restoring IOS either from a previous iTunes or iCloud backup. In practice, you would install a fresh version of iOS, then go find the apps that you want and reinstall them, and then reconfigure your phone and your apps.

This is sometimes necessary to fix a problem, or to prove to Apple but the problem is not in your config‘s. But, it is most certainly inconvenient.

Jim

Written While on the Move

> On Dec 3, 2017, at 6:49 AM, Tracy Carcione via Electronics-Talk <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I have heard that an update to the latest IOS can slow down old phones, and
> today I heard something that's supposed to solve the problem, so here it is:
> 
> Back up the phone, then wipe it back to factory settings.  Install the IOS
> update, then restore your old stuff.
> 
> 
> 
> I'm not sure it's worth the effort, but perhaps.  Though Apple did wipe my
> old iPod Touch a while back to fix a problem, and I haven't been able to
> update the IOS since.
> 
> Tracy
> 
> 
> 
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