Since v31 I have been having issues with my iPhone 8 playing the game.
I have enabled "reduce motion" and this helped a bit, but I still have frequent crashes and serious overheating.
Several other friends reported the same issues, and all of them have detected a deterioration since the last update.
I wanted to understand if there is something wrong with my device or if the Contest is slowly but steadily pushing out the "old" hardware by implementing resource-intesive features from the newest hardware. I have opened a ticket and this is the answer I received:
The iPhone 8 is a pretty old device at this point, and while it does meet the minimum requirements to play the game, you may experience some issues like overheating or crashing. The Contest is constantly growing more technologically advanced, with better graphics, maps, and more. This can cause issues when running on older devices, because it has to work much harder than newer ones to run the game. As the device has to put more power into running the game smoothly, it will usually get hotter as a result. The game will automatically try to lower graphical quality to run on lower end devices, but that can only go so far.
What is your experience with iPhone 8 or lower? In fact the Contest still supports all the way down to iPhone 6, which is 3 generations before iPhone 8.
Do you have any tips and tricks to improve the performance?