Is iOS 8 slower on older devices?

Greg

Aside from all the bugs and most apps not iOS 8 ready yet..........

I was thinking about an article I read on discchord a while ago.
http://discchord.com/blog/2014/7/28/ny-times-apple-is-fucking-us-all.html

iPhone 6 is out now and so is iOS 8. But there are no new iPads out and the iPod Touch doesn't get a successor from what I heard.

My question is; from all the people who already installed iOS 8, is it slower on older devices?

BiancaNeve

But not that much.

Macao95

It's slower in newer devices. At least on my Air.

Greg

@Macao95 said:

It's slower in newer devices. At least on my Air.

If iPad air 2 comes out, the current Air is outdated and Apple ofcourse wants you to buy the new one. So probably iOS 8 wil slow down the current Air.
It's criminal if that is really on purpose, but what can you do?

Hmtx

"is iOS x slower than iOS <x" Answer is always yes if you are upgrading, right?

Generally the newest hardware is as fast on the latest OS as the previous device was on the previous OS. But a new OS never makes a current iDevice faster from what I hear.

bennorland

It feels a bit slower on my iPhone 5, but having said that I suspect some of the things that make it feel laggy may be tweaked in coming updates. For example: I am trying out a new keyboard as my primary keyboard, and there's a very noticable lag as the third party keyboard loads. I can well imagine that will be improved by either Apple and/or the developer over time.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Greg said:

It's criminal if that is really on purpose, but what can you do?

"This too shall pass" (Persian: این نیز بگذرد‎, pronunciation:īn nīz bogzarad, Arabic: لا شيء يدوم‎ ("Nothing endures"), Hebrew: גם זה יעבור‎) is an adage indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words. Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which has the ability to make the happy man sad and the sad man happy.

Korakios

I am on ipad3 and will stay for some months on iOS7 . I remember that from ios6 to ios7 my ipad was a bit laggy on ios 7.0 but on 7.1 things got so much better. My only concern is updating some apps or not, but I check on this forum frequently for compability issues...

EDIT: @Greg I think some people think ipad4 as an older device, but the real issue will be with ipad2, mini and ipad3(even if the 3 has more ram&better gpu)...

funjunkie27

I think that if the Persian poets had to deal with iOS8, "This too will pass" would have ended up as "wtf!?"

Macao95

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@Greg said:

@Macao95 said:

It's criminal if that is really on purpose, but what can you do?

"This too shall pass" (Persian: این نیز بگذرد‎, pronunciation:īn nīz bogzarad, Arabic: لا شيء يدوم‎ ("Nothing endures"), Hebrew: גם זה יעבור‎) is an adage indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words. Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which has the ability to make the happy man sad and the sad man happy.

I don't remember writing this and I find nothing on my posted comments.

JohnnyGoodyear

@Macao95 said:

@JohnnyGoodyear said:

@Greg said:

@Macao95 said:

It's criminal if that is really on purpose, but what can you do?

"This too shall pass" (Persian: این نیز بگذرد‎, pronunciation:īn nīz bogzarad, Arabic: لا شيء يدوم‎ ("Nothing endures"), Hebrew: גם זה יעבור‎) is an adage indicating that all material conditions, positive or negative, are temporary. The phrase seems to have originated in the writings of the medieval Persian Sufi poets, and is often attached to a fable of a great king who is humbled by the simple words. Some versions of the fable, beginning with that of Attar of Nishapur, add the detail that the phrase is inscribed on a ring, which has the ability to make the happy man sad and the sad man happy.

I don't remember writing this and I find nothing on my posted comments.

Entirely my bad 'quoting'. A thousand apologies. It was something @Greg said in response and while quoting you saying: It's slower in newer devices. At least on my Air.

I have edited the offending quote and will also go thrash myself on the kidneys with an endless rubber hose...