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I’ve used it for years on macOS and iOS and it’s terrific. The free version is sufficient for most ads, but the upgrade enabled additional blocking behaviors, including custom blocking. The iOS version also comes with an app firewall that block ads in other iOS apps.

Huh… How’d that one go missing?

Added.

Technically, sure.

But the fact that one of the top comments here is telling people how to disable it with a bunch of responses thanking them says something about how annoying this feature is to a lot of people.

Answer: A bunch of people read a clickbait article a long time ago suggesting that the fact that apps can see what you copied to the clipboard was a supposed breach of privacy (despite the fact that the clipboard was literally designed to work that way from the beginning). Then after the uproar, Apple added this notification to allow you to see when apps access the clipboard and deny it if you desire.

What exactly do you suspect is abnormal about this?

This isn’t burn-in and was fixed in an iOS update. It was posted all over this subreddit long ago.

What rock have you been living under?

As someone who has used and developed software for all of the above mainstream (and some not-so-mainstream) operating systems since the 1980s, and uses each of them without issue on a daily basis, I can confidently tell you that’s a you problem.

BINGO.

People buy Apple products because they:

• are of excellent build quality,
• have significantly better security and privacy protections than competing products, and
• provide a superior overall user experience compared to the competition.

User experience is something that must be experienced to be truly appreciated and is not something that can be easily quantified with a number on a spec sheet. Specifications alone don’t tell the whole story and don’t indicate what truly matters the most: how good the overall user experience is. This is something that people who are hopelessly fixated on specifications have a really hard time understanding.

It will increase the risk for all sorts of attacks and nonsense.

they will make the battery smaller like they have been doing

Actually, with very few exceptions, Apple has steadily increased battery size over the years:

• iPhone 3GS 1219 mAh

• iPhone 4 1420 mAh

• iPhone 4s 1432 mAh

• iPhone 5: 1440 mAh

• iPhone 5s 1570 mAh

• iPhone 6 1810 mAh

• iPhone 6 Plus 2915 mAh

• iPhone 6s 1715 mAh

• iPhone 6s Plus 2915 mAh

• iPhone SE 1624 mAh

• iPhone 7 1960 mAh

• iPhone 7 Plus 2900 mAh

• iPhone 8 1821 mAh

• iPhone 8 Plus 2675 mAh

• iPhone X 2716 mAh

• iPhone XS 2658 mAh

• iPhone XS Max 3174 mAh

• iPhone XR 2942 mAh

• iPhone 11 3110 mAh

• iPhone 11 Pro 3046 mAh

• iPhone 12 2815 mAh

• iPhone 12 Pro 2815 mAh

• iPhone 12 Pro Max: 3687 mAh

• iPhone 12 Mini 2227 mAh

• iPhone 13 3227 mAh

• iPhone 13 Mini 2406 mAh

• iPhone 13 Pro 3095 mAh

• iPhone 13 Pro Max: 4353 mAh

• iPhone 14 3279 mAh

• iPhone 14 Pro 3200 mAh

• iPhone 14 Pro Max: 4323 mAh

• iPhone 14 Plus 4325 mAh

• iPhone 15:: 3349 mAh

• iPhone 15 Pro:: 3274 mAh

• iPhone 15 Pro Max:: 4422 mAh

• iPhone 15 Plus:: 4383 mAh

That’s the 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro, right?

I have one. I definitely wouldn’t call it slow, but it’s certainly not as fast as newer machines.

The fans definitely should not run frequently unless the internal airways are clogged with dust. When is the last time you took off the bottom cover and cleared dust from the airways?

Have you replaced the thermal grease yet? It’s about time to do that as well, since old thermal grease won’t move heat away from the internal components as well as it did when it was new.

How sure are you that software running on the device isn’t hogging system resources? Have you looked carefully at Activity Monitor to see which processes are utilizing the most CPU and RAM? How full is the internal startup volume?

Apple mobile devices always experience a temporary drop in performance immediately after an OS update/upgrade while the operating system rebuilds caches and indexes, and downloads and installs app updates. Naturally, while the device is busy doing this, battery performance will also be impacted. This typically lasts from an hour or two to a day or two depending on the age and speed of the device and network bandwidth, after which performance returns to normal. The overwhelming majority of posts I see online complaining about iOS devices supposedly being slowed down or batteries draining abnormally fast by iOS updates are in this category.

Whenever Apple releases a major upgrade for older iOS devices, major new features and functionality are included, which means the device can do more things than it could before. And whether it’s a major upgrade or just an update, known security vulnerabilities are patched. Naturally new features come with a cost, and that cost is generally that the device must work a little harder to do the extra work. However, at the same time, Apple is always refining features to make devices work more efficiently.

For instance iOS 12 has been shown to be significantly faster than iOS 11 on the same device - even on very old devices:

https://youtu.be/Ius4c3pyd2M

And iOS 13 was even faster than iOS 12:

https://youtu.be/LPXDKSzv0NY

The same applied to iOS 15:

https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/will-ios-15-slow-down-iphone-3808590/

Even with older devices such as the first-generation iPhone SE, iOS 15 can be safely installed. Safari gets faster and the overall performance is not slowed down by the latest system.

The same goes for iOS 16:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UC5l0EJheD0&t=118s

And so on…

Typically, you can expect a major iOS upgrade to slow some operations down just a little bit, but also speed up some operations as well as add many new features you didn’t have before. On really old devices that are near end of life, the speed decreases may be more noticeable than on newer devices. But in general it all works out to a net benefit in real world use.

Nah.

Apple: BAD!

No need to think any further.