Ios 14 is it worth for iPhone SE first gen, iphone 7

[Lord Dredd]

My SE 1st is on ios13 and the 7 is on 14.2...
Don't wish to update them any further as i fear they ll become slow and the battery backup would take a hit.
What's your view???

I am using them both in New Delhi with volte and LTE based GSM carrier.
Thanks

 

[iPhonNick]

I can't speak for the 7, since I don't have an iPhone 7. But I can speak for the SE 1st gen. I'm running iOS 14 on my SE since beta 7 and it is great. Performance is better, compared to iOS 13 and battery life is very good on my side. My SE still has the original battery that is almost 5 years old and, for the most time, I'm ending the day with 70+ % of battery life left. Battery health is about 85%, according to coconut Battery. The phone itself shows 87% with peak performance enabled.

 

[Apple_Robert]

After switching Apple ID, iOS 14 has been running well on my OG SE.

 

[Lord Dredd]

I can't speak for the 7, since I don't have an iPhone 7. But I can speak for the SE 1st gen. I'm running iOS 14 on my SE since beta 7 and it is great. Performance is better, compared to iOS 13 and battery life is very good on my side. My SE still has the original battery that is almost 5 years old and, for the most time, I'm ending the day with 70+ % of battery life left. Battery health is about 85%, according to coconut Battery. The phone itself shows 87% with peak performance enabled.

That's encouraging indeed
Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Lord Dredd]

After switching Apple ID, iOS 14 has been running well on my OG SE.

What happened when it had the original apple id, if I may ask? thanks for the feedback.

 

[Apple_Robert]

What happened when it had the original apple id, if I may ask? thanks for the feedback.

I was experiencing a lot of battery drain. I also had a problem with one of my mail accounts (work mail) not working like it should. The latter is the main reason I switched ID.

 

[Wolfpup]

They run fine, but even if they didn’t, it’s either upgrade or replace the hardware, as it’s not safe running old software that’s connected to the internet. You should be updating the first chance you get, any time there’s an update.

 

[BugeyeSTI]

IOS 13 was buggy as hell, not sure why you'd pick that version of iOS to stay on. iOS 12 was much less buggy than iOS 13 and iOS 14 has had only a few minor bugs in my experience.. I went straight from 12 to 14 skipping 13 completely and I'm satisfied with it's performance (on my backup 6S)..

 

[leifp]

These fine folk always do a review on how the new iOS runs on old phones:

iOS 14 on the iPhone 6S and SE: Performance is fine, other stuff is not

iOS 14 won't ruin older phones, but a second-gen iPhone SE is a tempting upgrade.

arstechnica.com

 

[Mr Todhunter]

My SE 1st is on ios13 and the 7 is on 14.2...
Don't wish to update them any further as i fear they ll become slow and the battery backup would take a hit.
What's your view???

I am using them both in New Delhi with volte and LTE based GSM carrier.
Thanks

Funny that I’m also running the same iPhones, with original batteries as well. Anyway they are not slow at all. But the battery drain is another thing. The SE runs 14.1 and has no battery problems. The 7 runs 14.3 and at first the could drain from 100% down to 0% overnight while idle. I had to reset it twice, also turn it off and on a couple of times. After that it started behaving better and now the battery lasts about 50 hours (with light use.)

 

[Lord Dredd]

Well i am gonna update the 7 tonight. Will take the call for the SE this weekend.

BTW Merry Christmas to all
Stay safe
Wear masks plz

 

[Lord Dredd]

These fine folk always do a review on how the new iOS runs on old phones:

iOS 14 on the iPhone 6S and SE: Performance is fine, other stuff is not

iOS 14 won't ruin older phones, but a second-gen iPhone SE is a tempting upgrade.

arstechnica.com

Incidentally this was the first review I read about a week or so back regarding the 14 on SE and decided against updating tbh.

 

[madrich]

If you are happy with your current iOS then stay with it.

 

[alpi123]

If you are happy with your current iOS then stay with it.

Also this. My 6s works fairly well on iOS 13 and I plan on staying with it, who knows how it will handle iOS 14 and if it's not good I can't go back. I'm personally not missing out on any features.

 

[Lord Dredd]

Bumping this up just to let you guys know that despite a persistent urge to update my SE just to see how it performs , I haven't given into th temptation
My SE is still on iOS 13 and performs very very well .

 

[Lord Dredd]

Hey all
Bumping this once more, now that ios 15.2 is doing rounds for both ip7 and ipSE ( first gen) thought of troubling you guys again for opinions.
Incidentally i am still using them both along with a lg g8x thinq.
Wanted to ask if it's worth updating the 7 to 15. My SE is happy with ios 13 and am not gonna update that.

Would appreciate any feedback/suggestions regarding the 7

Thanks and Happy Holidays

 

[now i see it]

Still some headaches w iOS 15. Why not wait until .4 ?(or later). There really isn’t a special feature in iOS 15 that makes it worth the trouble yet.

 

[Wolfpup]

Hey all
Bumping this once more, now that ios 15.2 is doing rounds for both ip7 and ipSE ( first gen) thought of troubling you guys again for opinions.
Incidentally i am still using them both along with a lg g8x thinq.
Wanted to ask if it's worth updating the 7 to 15. My SE is happy with ios 13 and am not gonna update that.

Would appreciate any feedback/suggestions regarding the 7

Thanks and Happy Holidays

You'd better not be using these online like that. You're vulnerable to countless flaws. It's not really safe to wait a day on updates, much less YEARS.

 

[Madhatter32]

I have a 6s running fine on 14 and it performs well enough for me. Caveat -- I'm not a power user. I use it primarliy to communicate -- like, you know, a phone.

 

[Lord Dredd]

I use my iphone just for voice calls & what'sapp

 

[winxmac]

I have an iPhone 6s on iOS 13.4 which when disconnecting the charger while it is between 1 to 100% battery it restarts or shuts down completely and thinking that it could be software related, I updated it to iOS 15.3 Developer Beta 1 and unfortunately nothing changed... It is a hardware issue... Regarding the performance, I have used it for about 2 hours and so far I think it is as close as possible if it was on iOS 14.8.1

If you are into jailbreaking, staying on an older version is a must... Also, performance of iPhone 6s on iOS 13.x is better than on iOS 15.x but if I can downgrade it to iOS 12.4.1 I would...