
(Note that the percentages are here for reference, but these times are so short that anything within 10 percent is easily within the margin of error.) Advertisement If opening an app and waiting for it to load on a fresh iOS install feels slow, that usually means that the rest of the phone (including waiting for the keyboard to pop up, waiting for pages to load, and other tasks) will feel slow, too-especially as you download more stuff and connect more accounts. In the past, this test has been a fairly reliable indicator of how each phone will actually feel in day-to-day use. I then opened each of these apps three times and averaged the results. iOS 14 won’t slow down your phoneįor this performance test, I did a fresh install of iOS on each device, signed it into a test iCloud account, and let the phones sit for a while to complete any indexing or other behind-the-scenes tasks. This year, we were pleasantly surprised on the performance front, but the second-generation iPhone SE makes upgrading much easier to justify now than it was last year. In the move from iOS 12 to iOS 13, we found that the phones slowed down a little but remained perfectly usable the same was true of iPadOS on older hardware, which we didn’t re-test this time around.


Originally released in late 2015 ( the 6S and 6S Plus) and early 2016 ( the SE), both phones include an Apple A9 processor and 2GB of RAM, and both devices boast the bare minimum you need for things like augmented reality apps or hardware accelerated decoding of h.265/HEVC video. Further Reading iOS 13 on the iPhone 6S and SE: New software runs fine on a phone that’s still fast
