Older iPhones don’t get slower

“Does Apple slow down older iPhones to make you buy new ones?” asked Samuel Gibbs in The Guardian. It’s a “perennial question” among iPhone devotees, some of whom swear that their current phone gets sluggish in the run-up to the release of new models. But benchmarking company Futuremark says that “despite what you might feel on a day-to-day basis, your iPhone’s processor and graphics chip are as fast as the day you bought it.” Futuremark collected results from more than 100,000 tests on recent iPhone models, and found that speed and graphics loading remained consistent over time, even with new versions of the iOS software. The likely culprit for the sluggish sensation? Apps. Increasingly complex features are added with each release, “which can lead to the app performing worse over time.”