[masraum]

Originally Posted by john70t

Mom's 8-10 started becoming unintelligible.
Both her iPhone and her iWatch.
It became pure electronic jumbled garbage. The old 4 bit lossy .mp3 sound quality from the 1980's was far better.

She started having to scream into both thinking that this was normal. Also the disconnects.
(Even I couldn't hear it)
So many important conversations were ruined.
If she was trying to call emergency services in a life-death situation...she would not be understood.

She thought buying a newer device version was the best action to take.

I thought a class action suit against Apple for sabotaging their own purchased products would be more appropriate.
Like a dealership going to homes and yanking caps and wires.

But are they sabotaging, or like most computers, does the OS and things being asked of the hardware eventually outstrip the capabilities of the old hardware. The home page may look the same, but there are often so many new features that do run fine on the new hardware. So, folks with new hardware get whiz-bang new features and love them. Folks with old hardware have the opportunity to get the new whiz-bang features, but because they have old hardware, their stuff performance is going to suffer.

As the phone gets long in the tooth, why not just turn off automatic updates?

Also, there's often guides online of settings that can be changed and services that can be disabled that help an older phone run better. Often things like turning off background processing for certain apps that don't need it, turning off location services or having them only function when in the app, etc....