In the wake of the iOS 8 release, number of users are saying that it has slowed down their device.
Some users have accused Apple of rolling out the update to slow down their devices so as to get them to buy the iPhone 6, which was released Friday.
“I must be one of the only people who’ve realised theses apple updates like iOS 8 slow your iPhone down to make you buy the new iPhone,” one person wrote on Twitter. Added another: “I’m glad iOS 8 is here to make my iPhone slow just in time for the release of the 6.”
Many users said the iPhone 4s was the device that suffered the most.
According to Ars Technica’s Andrew Cunningham, “The 4S has stayed pretty speedy over the years, but how does iOS 8 treat it? ... It’s missing out on several features that depend on newer hardware. [It’s] 3.5-inch iPhone screen size...is now the smallest of four...that Apple supports. iOS 8’s new stuff is all about fitting more information on those larger screens.”
“We were expecting speed to stay roughly the same in the jump from iOS 7 to iOS 8, more or less as it did when we moved from iOS 5 to iOS 6 on the 3GS. [But] application launch times...reset those expectations. ... iOS 8 can add as much as 50 percent more time to the same task...animations on the Apple A5 SoC are markedly more choppy and inconsistent,” he adds.
As a result, early indicators have shown that more Apple users have put off downloading iOS 8 than when iOS 7 came out last year, possibly to determine if the new OS would bog down their devices or to wait for more updates to come out.
At the same time, many have complained that iOS 8 has drained the battery life of their devices.
