People with older iPhones often wonder if they should be upgraded when new versions of iOS are available. The biggest concern for older iPhone users is that the need to keep older hardware up to date with the latest features may slow down or consume more power.

The iPhone 5s is the oldest iPhone model that can be upgraded to iOS 12. The phone with the A7 processor was released in 2013. The question is, should the iPhone 5s upgrade iOS 12?

Apple released the performance features of this system when it released iOS 12, including smoother animation, faster application startup speed and keyboard display speed.

According to Apple’s statistics, in iOS 12, the application starts up 40% faster, loads twice as fast, and the keyboard displays 1.5 times faster than before. Activating the camera from the lock screen is also a key point for iOS 12, which Apple says is about 70% faster on the iPhone 6 Plus.

You may have seen many old iPhone models upgrade iOS 12 test, foreign media CNET this week again tested the iPhone 5s running iOS 12 in some real-world scenarios, the results show that compared with iOS 11, iOS 12 makes the iPhone 5s faster.

In addition to the speed of opening the map is basically the same, iOS 12 open Instagram, mail, Safari and other applications faster than iOS11, the lock screen interface into the camera and Siri response is faster. Here are some details of this test:

iOS 12 has a lot of features that can only be used on the new iPhone. Features such as Animoji, Memoji, and AR application support will not appear on the iPhone 5s. But CNET editor PatrickHolland stressed that in the iPhone 5s, the oldest iPhone model supported by iOS 12, you can also get some new features, such as the Do Not Disturb mode and screen usage time of the control center.

PatrickHolland also lists several notable new features that iOS 12 brings to the iPhone 5s, including notification grouping, Siri shortcuts, FaceTime voice group chat, custom control centers, and new battery usage charts.

According to Patrick Holland, installing iOS 12 requires about 2GB of free space, but in addition, iPhone 5s upgrade iOS 12 basically does not require much thinking, this decision should not be so difficult, this system is Apple to iPhone 5s A gift from the user.

Finally, is your iPhone 5s upgraded to iOS 12? Have you found any advantages and disadvantages after the upgrade?