Your Question: Does Updating iOS Slow Phone?

An update to iOS may slow down some iPhone models to protect their older batteries and prevent them from suddenly shutting down. … Apple quietly released an update that slows down the phone when it is putting too much demand on the battery, preventing these sudden shut downs.

Do Apple updates make your phone slower?

Apple at the time did admit that the updates indeed slowed down the phones to prevent their aging batteries from causing the devices to randomly shut down. Some customers and critics questioned if the move was instead designed to prompt more sales of new iPhone models, which Apple pushed back on.

Does updating phone make it slower?

Shrey Garg, an Android developer from Pune, says that in certain cases phones do get slow after software updates. … While we as consumers update our phones (to get the most out of the hardware) and expect better performance from our phones, we end up slowing our phones.