iPhone 5 and the latest ios

adonis10

I have an iPhone 5 and am currently running iOS 6.1.4, and am considering upgrading to the latest one 8.3. I have a few questions:

- it requires 3.5gb of space even though its only 1.2gb itself. Why?
- is 6.1.4 1.2gb as well, meaning once it's all done I'd have the same amount of available space? Or is the 1.2gb in addition to what it already eats up?
- have you noticed a performance increase/decrease? Older phone and newest iOS sometimes = poor performance.

I'd rather not do it because, frankly, I think the interface from 7 onwards looks like a baby designed it, however a lot of the apps I'm using and starting to use require 7 or later, so I'm kinda stuck!

Advice appreciated.

AndyPK

I resisted for a long time too, but not as long as you!

You should have done what I did, and when I heard 8 was going to be released I upgraded to 7 ! so I could stick with that for a while.

I have a 5 with IOS7
and a 5S with IOS8

IOS7 seams to be stable and ok.

IOS8 is ok since the recent updates.

AlecEiffel

I ran an iPhone 5 on the latest iOS til recently. Ran fine, I found the ui much nicer than the old style - a lot cleaner looking than the cheesey leather and baize effects. You need the extra space when doing ota updates as it creates temp files on the phone to update, if you use iTunes you don't need the extra, though the os itself does use more room than it used to. Such a big jump in ios version as you've not updated for ages, I would personally back up to iTunes or iCloud then plug in to iTunes and do a full restore to the latest version of iOS as it will be cleaner and most likely run smoother, then restore your stuff from your backup.

adonis10

AlecEiffel wrote: »

I ran an iPhone 5 on the latest iOS til recently. Ran fine, I found the ui much nicer than the old style - a lot cleaner looking than the cheesey leather and baize effects. You need the extra space when doing ota updates as it creates temp files on the phone to update, if you use iTunes you don't need the extra, though the os itself does use more room than it used to. Such a big jump in ios version as you've not updated for ages, I would personally back up to iTunes or iCloud then plug in to iTunes and do a full restore to the latest version of iOS as it will be cleaner and most likely run smoother, then restore your stuff from your backup.

Thanks.

So plug in, backup to iTunes then how to I restore to the new iOS, as opposed to downloading it and then restoring?

AlecEiffel

Plug in
Backup now
Click restore
It will bring up a couple of dialogue screens to agree to
It will download the latest os and overwrite everything on the phone from scratch (as opposed to updating the existing install)
When done it will ask if you want to restore from the backup.

Always worthwhile doing an iCloud backup before you start too.

AndyPK

Note your emails will be lost doing it that way.

Doing an encrypted backup will keep your saved passwords. (For web pages)

adonis10

AndyPK wrote: »

Note your emails will be lost doing it that way.

Doing an encrypted backup will keep your saved passwords. (For web pages)

What about all wifi passwords etc.?

I'd really rather not lose anything, so am I better off sticking with what I have until I decide to upgrade my phone?

AlecEiffel

Your backup will save your passwords etc. unless you use iCloud photo sharing etc (in which case your photos will be saved there) all photos will be backed up and then restored. I've never lost anything through backup and restore, but iCloud and iTunes backup is a belt and braces approach. Have a read here https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204136
If you don't wanna do it don't do it, but it's designed for this.

AlecEiffel

AndyPK wrote: »

Note your emails will be lost doing it that way.

Doing an encrypted backup will keep your saved passwords. (For web pages)

Yeah you lose passwords saved in your browser this way. Account passwords for apps are saved though unless you're restoring to a different device.

adonis10

I'm not too concerned about app and website passwords as I know them all. It's more the million different wifi passwords (multiple work locations and stacks of friends and family houses etc.) that I could really do without losing. Obviously not the end of the world, but a right ball ache all
The same.

AndyPK

Yes WIFI passswords are lost by default. (on a restore)

As I said, I think if you do an encrypted backup they should be kept. You should do a backup anyway! so may as well do that !