See the speed difference between iOS 11 and iOS 12 on older devices

You've probably noticed over the past few days that the new iOS 12 that Apple unveiled a week ago is a big step forward in terms of optimization. An article appeared over the weekend describing the changes the new operating system brought to my five-year-old iPad. Unfortunately, I did not have empirical data available to demonstrate the changes. However, an article with a similar topic appeared abroad yesterday, so if you are interested in the measured values, you can look at them below.

The editors from the Appleinsider server published a video in which they compare the speed of iOS 11 and iOS 12 using the example of the iPhone 6 (the 2nd oldest supported iPhone) and the iPad Mini 2 (with the iPad Air the oldest supported iPad). The main goal of the authors was to verify the promises that in some cases there is up to a twofold acceleration of certain tasks within the system.

In the case of the iPad, booting into iOS 12 is slightly faster. Tests in the Geekbench synthetic benchmark did not show any significant increase in performance, but the biggest difference is in the overall fluidity of the system and animations. As for the applications, some open the same time, with others iOS 12 is one or two seconds faster, with a few it is even more seconds.

As for the iPhone, boot is 12 times faster in iOS 6. The fluidity of the system is better, but the difference is not as much as in the case of the older iPad. Benchmarks are almost identical, applications (with some exceptions) load significantly faster than in the case of iOS 11.4.

My personal impressions from the previous article were thus confirmed. If you have an older device (ideally iPad Air 1st generation, iPad Mini 2, iPhone 5s), the change will be most noticeable to you. Accelerated launch of applications is rather the icing on the cake, the most important thing is the significantly improved fluidity of the system and animations. It does a lot, and if the first beta of iOS 12 is this good, I'm very curious to see what the release version will look like.

Source: Appleinsider