I completely agree, your friend who said the updates are designed more for newer devices is not correct at all. As Anna said, especially iOS 12 was very much a release where Apple concentrated on fixing bugs, improving performance and efficiency instead of introducing a lot of new features. During the keynote they actually specifically mentioned this and showed how much better iOS 12 ran on an iPhone 6. Keep in mind as well that while iOS 10 is still mostly supported, I just received an email from Dropbox where they announced that they will drop support for iOS 10 as well as hardware which does not support 64-bit architecture. This means the iPhone 5/5C or earlier and the iPad fourth generation and earlier. If you use Dropbox the app will soon no longer work on any of those devices or on newer devices which haven't been upgraded at least to iOS 11. The current version of iOS is 12.4 and just as Anna, I highly recommend you update. Just make sure you follow a few basic rules:
1. Go to the app store app and check for updates and make sure all your apps are updated 2. Close all apps from the app switcher 3. Turn your phone off, wait 30 seconds and turn it back on 4. Go to Settings > General > Software Update and install iOS 12.4 5. After the installation finishes and the phone has rebooted, leave it plugged in over night since there is a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes after such a major update. Then in the morning I would do another reboot of your phone and you should be fine and most likely you will notice your old phone is snappier than before. Regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Anna Dresner Sent: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 8:55 AM To: VIPhone Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: updating Hello Deidre, Apple put a lot of work into improving the performance of older devices in iOS 12. I would encourage you to update. You'll get a lot of security fixes as well. Also, it's possible that apps will perform better, since developers tend to gear their apps to newer versions of operating systems first. Best, Anna On Aug 7, 2019, at 8:04 AM, 'deidre muccio' via VIPhone <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey all > I'm one of those old dinasaur's who never updated beyond 10.3. I've > got plenty of storage left on my iPhone 6. One friend with a 5S said > the more recent updates were not any kind of improvement for his > phone, and he proclaimed that the updates were geared to newer phones. > I fear the jump from 10.3 to 12.3 might cause some problems at this point. > Speaking of newer versions of Apps, I downloaded the Facebook App > recently and have deleted it several times already. It's back on the > phone again with the same issue that drove me to delete it twice > already. I get bumped out of the post I am reading and don't know why. > I assume it is because some notification is coming in or perhaps the > newsfeed is being refreshed automatically. It's annoying. I wish I > hadn't deleted my older version some time ago. It worked just fine > without all the bumping me back to the top of the page. Unfortunately, > or unfortunately, the Facebook App is so much easier to use with a > screen reader than accessing it through their main site. > Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so did you ever resolve > it? > > Deidre > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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