[fredoralive]

I use an iPhone SE (mk 1) that's basically a 6S, mostly works fine (have had to replace the battery). Things like web browsing, general apps are fine, nothing feels slow. Most things are responsive etc. Have no need to update as it does everything I want it to do with no issues.

I have had an oddity in the last year or so (so iOS 14 and onwards?) is that music playback software seems to get background killed (OOM?) fairly often if it isn't playing. Main issue for me is my general pattern with driving would be to cue up music / podcasts beforehand, pause it and when I select bluetooth for sound in car it would start playback. Now I seem to have to be careful not to actually do anything with my phone (like check websites or whatever) after preparing audio, otherwise there's a strong chance you'll just get nothing.

So not perfect, but this may be a weird edge case I'm running up against. Doubt the phone is going to get iOS 16 though, so will have to think about what to do.

I think those first few years of iPhone where phone power was really leaping up between models, and iOS was jumping in complexity alongside it did give Apple bit of a bad reputation. We got software updates (good) but they just didn't perform at all well on older phones (bad). It seems to have settled down a bit nowadays where iOS isn't outgrowing the old hardware as much. But of course then we had the infamous "people think we're intentionally slowing down old phones, lets ship a feature that protects the battery by intentionally slowing down old phones and not tell anyone" thing.