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iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch

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Re: iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch

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Post by 7speter »

bartread wrote: post #11

I ran a 5S that I bought in December 2013 as my primary phone all the way up to around March 2020, just as the pandemic was really winding up. The battery, after ailing for a little while, had eventually just given up. I'd gone skiing a couple of times, with the last trip being just before lockdown, and I think it was the cold exposure of the second trip that dealt the mortal blow, and it died shortly after I returne…

Next time, if you try changing your phone’s battery, you should watch a few youtube videos showing how to take it apart, too.

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Post by 7speter »

accrual wrote: post #31

Anyone using the original iPhone SE or the second SE? I wonder how those are fairing on their final update(s).

I think the battery on my SE2 gave up the ghost… or the charging port, because the battery wouldnt charge all the time by the end.

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Post by falkenstein »

happy about this since I still daily an iphone se 2016 (same form factor as the 5s but 6s internals) and about to change it's tiny battery and maybe get yet another iphone og se just in case this one stops working. abysmal battery life and tiny screen makes for the perfect dumb smartphone. aside from google search, the phone is virtually ai free (most of the ai and majroity of the social apps do require at least ios16 o 17), i do have to have an older android to use 'institutional' apps (meaning that there's a phone always at home with my banking and govt id apps). sent from the tiny screen of the SE

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Post by accrual »

barbs wrote: post #78
accrual wrote: post #31

Anyone using the original iPhone SE or the second SE? I wonder how those are fairing on their final update(s).

I'm on my 8th year of using my original iPhone SE, have replaced the battery a few times and the screen a couple of times. It's still doing what I need it to do on iOS 15, but I noticed a few big names apps have stopped supporting iOS 15 in the past year so the installed versions are the last compatible versions (e.g. the installed versions of Uber and Netflix are > 6 months old). Performance-wise, it can stutter a b…

That's impressive, thanks for sharing! I miss my original SE, the size was perfect. And I felt iOS 15 and 16 were really solid updates.

Re: iPhone 5s Gets New Software Update 13 Years After Launch

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Post by youngtaff »

Grazester wrote: post #54
youngtaff wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google have burnt me twice by abandoning phones… first was Nexus 4, next was Pixel 4a Both were abandoned within two years of me buying… never buying a phone from Google again

As power user, didn't you do your homework before buying the device?

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