IOS 9 for iPhone 5 S: reviews, descriptions, specifications and installation

Ideal does not exist, especially in the world of high technology, but the desire to achieve it is quite a natural process, which, apparently, was forgotten in the California corporation Apple. The company from year to year undermines the reputation of its most advanced operating system.

IOS 9 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch was released in September 2015 and covered a massive lineup, including older devices such as the iPhone 5S. Usually, questions about whether to update or not have never occurred, but more often users began to probe the ground and get acquainted with new software, relying on someone else's experience.

This material is devoted to all doubters and those who want to learn more about the operation of the system. We will give a brief overview and tell you what iOS 9 reviews. This OS is very ambiguous, so the features and capabilities of the product should be discussed in more detail.

Main innovations in the system

In the new update, the programmers from Cupertino were finally able to realize a lot of features long expected by the bulk of users. For example, full interaction with iCloud Drive. In addition to the ability to integrate the "apple" cloud into third-party applications, a full-fledged application appeared, allowing you to directly interact with the files that are stored in it. There are new opportunities for Spotlight, which can now perform simple calculations, look for data in third-party programs and even on the Internet. There was such a novelty as proactivity. The smartphone began to anticipate user actions, recommending suitable programs, activating the player when connecting headphones and the like. For the first time in 9 iterations, iOS received an energy-saving mode, which is designed to preserve the charge by blocking background activity and graphical surveys. There were also opportunities, whose work on the iPhone 5 S was in question.

Seeing the list of innovations, many users were puzzled by the question: "How does iOS 9 work on the iPhone 5 S?"

Night Shift

Thanks to the processor supporting the 64-bit architecture, this feature is available to all the lucky owners of the iPhone 5. S. Night Shift ("Night shift") is a gradual change in the white balance displayed on the display with a shift in the "warm" range. It has been scientifically proven that displays of modern gadgets negatively affect a person's ability to fall asleep, and one of the reasons for that is called the emission of the blue spectrum emanating from them. Night Shift allows you to relax the "cold" tone, making the use of the gadget more comfortable at night and helping the user to fall asleep. It's hard to say that it's more difficult to immerse yourself in the arms of Morpheus: a blue glow or another post in the networks, but Apple's example was followed by many market players, having implemented such functionality in their devices.

Content Blockers in Safari

64-bit architecture and here played into the hands of the owners of the gadget. The modern Internet literally teems with advertising, and Apple understands this, therefore allowed to make extensions for its browser, which can block content of various types, including advertising, banners, Javascript and so on. The feature found demand from the owners of iPhone 5 S and is actively used. Blocking advertising allows you to reduce the load on the processor, reduce the consumption of Internet traffic, increase the duration of time from one battery charge.

Handwritten notes

Another function that did not go to the owners of previous devices is the ability to sketch and draw in the standard Notes application. The feature pleased many owners of the iPhone, while being difficult enough to run it on older devices, therefore, users of the iPhone 5 S certainly should be congratulated: their gadget is still in the forefront.

Errors in the system

The ninth edition of the operating system from Cupertino rightfully earned the title, perhaps, the most unstable, filled with a lot of mistakes and misunderstandings that have a negative impact on user experience. At the time of release reviews about iOS 9 ranged from just bad to extremely negative. The list of the most obvious problems included:

• Automatically turning on the CAPS LOCK. This problem has worn many nerves for Russian-speaking users. Every time you try to enter a search query in Safari or write a message on Twitter, the keyboard is automatically transferred to the CAPS LOCK mode, which must be manually disabled. After the critical update of iOS 9.0.2 for the iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, the problem remained, which completely worsened the reputation of the company and Apple products (in particular, the operating system).
• Memory leaks. The second in the list, but not in importance, is the widespread problem of excessive absorption of RAM by the basic components of the system. The problem affected both users of gadgets and developers who faced a previously unknown task and were forced to re-optimize the software or to restrict access to it from older devices. Alas, gadgets with one gigabyte of RAM, such as the iPhone 5 S, were the most sensitive.
• Problems with activation. Another problem that received a wide response was the cumulative update of iOS 9.3, which led to the deactivation of devices. Similar was observed on the set of devices of the company, it is not excluded that with the unpleasant phenomenon the owners of iPhone 5 S. also collided.

Frame frequency

Despite the fact that global changes in the design of the operating system (the appearance of transparency, updated animation and others like them) occurred in iOS 7, each update loads the video subsystem more and more, slowing down the work of system components and standard applications. IOS 9 was no exception, and even the iPhone 5S, which seemed to be equipped with a fairly powerful processor and graphics, felt the influence of time.

The overall frame rate has not fallen, the system works smoothly, responds to the press in time, but when using a number of applications, such as "Music", or the multitasking menu, the frame rate drops noticeably. In the case where the pictures start to change too slowly, the user sees how the interface of the system "lags" and "brakes". Most of the losses are noticeable when scrolling, large lists are difficult to give even modern gadgets, what can we say about the device three years ago.

IOS 9 on the iPhone 5 S: reviews about performance

Despite the above problem with the sagging of the frame rate, the iPhone 5 S does a much better job than its predecessor. Users, in addition to smooth operation, note a quick response and download programs. Little serious products, such as GarageBand, are not cut in their capabilities and process data at a relatively high speed.

With serious problems faced by those who upgraded to the new firmware urgently, without waiting for patches and not "clearing" the system. Due to an incorrect sequence of installation or recovery of data from the cloud, the system did not manage to index all the data and in the early days showed extremely poor results in terms of performance and operating time. Perhaps, in view of these circumstances, the stream of criticism flashed towards iOS 9 on the iPhone 5 S. User reviews were saturated with disappointment, despite the fact that to solve their problems it was enough just to "zero" the gadget. You can do it on the smartphone itself, for this you need:

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Go to the "Basic" menu.
3. Then go to the submenu "Reset".
4. After selecting the sub-item "Reset content and settings" and enter the password from the Apple ID account.

This procedure allowed to prevent a lot of problems and unpredictable behavior of iOS 9 on iPhone 5 S.

Feedback on the operation of the system

Users have been unconcerned about the upgrade, and it's not just about performance, but also about the health of applications. Many third-party programs refused to function adequately after the update, which caused another wave of criticism on the Internet. The problem of sudden "departures" could be attributed to poor optimization on the part of the developers of the applications themselves, but it also occurred when working with standard programs.

Also, users could not help but note the fact that the battery charge began to melt just before our eyes. This problem, like most others, is connected with the indexing and incompatibility of content that has migrated from the previous iteration of the platform. It resolves the trouble of completely resetting all settings with the removal of content.

After the release of a number of critical updates, many problems have sunk into oblivion, then third-party developers have tightened up, helping to optimize the system. How does iOS 9 work on the iPhone 5 S? Feedback from users can be compared with comments in the era of iPhone 4s and sudden changes in iOS 7. The gadget is not old enough to completely give up positions, but already makes it clear that you need to prepare for a major acquisition. Support this position and feedback on iOS 9, who tirelessly say that the phone is over. Of course, the decision to take every single user. As for the owners of the iPhone 5 S, there's nothing to be afraid of: it's worth the risk.