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I have an iPhone 6/64GB and it has been running really slow. Last thing I tried is to disable all location services (besides for specific maps apps) and helped a little bit. Apple diagnosed that its battery still good. Question, how is your iPhone SE performance?

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Switched to iPhone SE (after a few years on Android) 12 months ago. I have yet to encounter any situation where I've been annoyed with the phone's performance. Best, and snappiest, smart phone I've ever owned.

Annoyance has been reserved for individual apps, and the change of Control Centre in iOS 11.

Only thing I'm bothered by is the speed of the fingerprint scanner. It's the same scanner from the 5s, so 1st gen touch ID. Makes for a less than ideal wait time for what is a generally snappy phone.

Battery life is fantastic as well. I paired mine up with a thin silicone case and Qi receiver for wireless charging.

The iPhone SE I bought recently is really fast. Waited a while to update to the latest iOS version as it didn't look that good judging by the betas I was using on my iPad before it's official release. But it's running great after holding off for two months, zero problems.

GeekBench is like one or two dollar in the AppStore. If the score has a significant difference with other iPhone 6's probably you're having a battery problem.

Also factory resetting the phone can help. Try to figure out if there are any apps using a lot of battery in your battery overview. Some apps consume more in terms of background activity than others.

I had some issues with a relatively slow iPhone 6 recently - it didn't register as battery throttling. So I made an iTunes backup, factory reset the device, and restored from backup.

That got it back to about the speed I'd expect it to be. I still suspect that I'll take it in for a battery swap before the end of the year - but it might be worth trying if it's the slowness is a hindrance for you.

I did this as well for an iPhone 6 and 6s. Worked.

I'd still replace the battery regardless of what they tell you.

Apple once told me I had a good battery even though my phone would randomly shut off and attaching to a charger was the only solution to get the phone to turn on. Thankfully I had AppleCare and pushed for them to replace the phone.

Yup, download GeekBench and do a test

My iPhone 7 was had a crippled batter after one year - it performed like an iPhone 6..

coconutBattery now also reports the battery health of connected iOS devices. I wish this functionality was built-in.

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

I bought the SE when it came out almost two years ago and still love it. No performance issues at all.

Only thing I’ve noticed is that some websites clearly don’t really expect phones’ screens to be this small any more, though.

I had to upgrade from an iPhone 6 that I liked just fine, because the OS keeps getting slower and slower. I suspect it relates back to the 3d shimmer effects and adding depth to everything, and transition animations. I suspect Ives needs to be knocked down a peg so that the phone stops getting worse. Apple is still selling the 6s so they test that one a bit more, and it it's completely dead, but it's still pretty laggy compared to how it was when it first shipped.

People tend to disregard statements like this, but they are absolutely 100% true.

I'm still using my iPhone 5S on iOS 8, and I am very happy with its performance. I've never had any issues with sluggishness, lag, etc.

>on iOS 8

That's the ticket. The further the OS drifts the the original hardware, the more painful the experience.

The iPhone 6 has an A8 where the iPhone SE has an A9. My iPhone 6 also says the battery is good and its a year old (2017-02-21) since I had to pay for the replacement since the old battery swelled and killed the touch screen ($159.62), but it is really slowing down in the last 2 months and getting hot after about 3 minutes of use.

I believe the SE is running on 6S internals, so it should be improved over the 6.

I loved the performance and battery life of the phone, but I finally gave up on the form factor. Apple and developers now support the screen size as an afterthought and I'd become increasingly frustrated by new version of apps that squish their 5.5" UI into 4, so I finally had it and switched to a compact Android device. Apple could have avoided this by maintaining the size of the phone and reducing bezels, but it seems clear that they consider smaller phones a niche market that isn't interesting.

I replaced my iPhone 6 with an iPhone SE a few weeks ago. It was like having an old friend back, especially since I had an iPhone 4 for 4 years before the iPhone 6. It was nice to have a phone I can operate with one hand again, it felt very familiar, but at the same time it also worked better. Compared to the iPhone 6 it's is certainly faster, has a better battery life and also supports hey siri even when not plugged into the charger.

Back when Apple allowed downgrading, I would downgrade others phones to the original OEM version and the speed was quite good. Now a days I upgrade one revision and nothing more. The only apps I really need are Safari and mail which work fine.

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