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When it comes to upgrading your iPhone's operating system, Apple is known for its commitment to backward compatibility. The company has made significant strides in ensuring that older devices can run the latest versions of iOS without sacrificing performance or functionality. However, with each new update, users may notice a hit on battery life or a slight decrease in overall performance.

To play standard-definition video from the iTunes Store, an Intel Pentium D or faster processor, 512MB of RAM and a DirectX 9.0–compatible video card are required. On the other hand, PC with a 1GHz Intel or AMD processor with support for SSE2 and 512MB of RAM can also play standard-definition video.

If you want to upgrade to the new version of iOS on your compatible iPhone, here's how to download iOS 14. Apple has made significant improvements in mitigating performance issues with recent updates, although there has been little mention of this focus since iOS 14 was previewed at Worldwide Developers Conference.

Apple's compatibility stretches back years, even if older devices can sometimes see a hit on performance or battery life with each successive iOS update. Devices running Google's mobile OS usually get to see two major software updates - sometimes fewer on budget devices.

However, moving around widgets apps on the iPhone SE's small screen is a bit of a challenge. Picture-in-picture works just fine on my iPhone SE, for example, but you can imagine how small window actually is on the SE's already compact 4-inch display.

That said, in my experience, a lot of the new features introduced in iOS 14 benefit from the larger screens of more modern iPhones. I have noticed a hit on battery life, though it's hard to tell whether that's iOS 14's doing or whether it's because I'm using a phone I bought four years ago.

Just because Apple says you can run iOS 14 on an older device, does that mean your experience will be up to par? All summer long, I've had iOS 14 developer beta running on an original iPhone SE, and I haven't seen any performance lags at all.

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