You possibly have a good point. I don't keep any photos in the Apple system, they're all on Google, so the re-indexing you suggest will not have occurred in my Air 2. Must say I'm liking how the dock and split-screen work in iOS 11.
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iPad Air 2 horrible performance with iOS 11
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You possibly have a good point. I don't keep any photos in the Apple system, they're all on Google, so the re-indexing you suggest will not have occurred in my Air 2. Must say I'm liking how the dock and split-screen work in iOS 11.
Been over a week and I have no photos in the photo app and I see stutter here and there
Restart it. Try a factory refresh. My 9.7” Pro was running sluggish with iOS 11 I turned it off and back on again. Ands it’s a speed machine now.
Thanks for all the input. Performance has certainly improved tonight so perhaps it was just an indexing issue as was suggested. I do have lots of photos of my grandson. My 10.5 arrives tomorrow but I’m glad things have improved on the Air 2 which will likely be going to my wife. The switch to the 10.5 will be a good opportunity to dump some of the lessor used apps and do some general housekeeping although I’ll have double the storage on the new one.
If the iPad Air 2 can still run games like Real Racing 3 without problems, it should easily handily iOS animinations. Let’s be honest.
I have seen some stutters on my 2nd generation iPad Pro too.
Performance on my Air 2 seems fine, though battery capacity clearly decreased. In contrast my iPhone 6 suffers massively, it slowed down quite a lot.
My iPad Air 2 seems to be performing as well as it did before the iOS 11 upgrade. Over the past week, I have not stressed it with higher end productivity tasks.
I am just at a loss to explain how a previous generation or two can work without hiccups over a newer generation/processor. I mean aren’t Apple devices supposed to get better with each generation? Sorry yours is having so many issues.
This is so random...my battery life (lives) has been unchanged. Performance, though, has suffered.
The Air 2 (not the Mini 4) is still such a powerful device that I would think that Apple will eventually get 11 to run well.
I never had to do that outside of troubleshooting. I‘ve owned pretty much every generation of iPhones and they all worked well without having to do any special forced restarts, simulated battery pulls, and based on that, I‘m just interested in learning scenarios where the majority of users would benefit from this stuff. Anecdotes aren‘t that interesting to me as long as there is no measurable benefit.
This problem is mostly caused by old non-working apps clogging storage and RAM. Clean up your storage by removing apps that’s not updated to iOS 11. After I did,mine is working completely normal.
Now that I realize just how many, especially of my gaming apps, not working anymore, I‘m a bit annoyed by the way. But as you say, Apple will have done this for some reason.
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My 9,7 iPad pro Lte does the same when I close apps by doing the 5 fingers app minimisation
Same. Air 2 performance okay but battery seems worse.
I haven't bothered to update my iPhone 6 as the performance is already sluggish and will probably be worse with the update as you've alluded to. Also I'm buying the iPhone 8 very soon or possibly the X and want to save the ios 11 experience for then.
Thanks. I guess that's a good sign, in a way. Maybe Apple really will figure out that 11.1 or 11.2 is going to have to deliver some improved performance.
My iPhone 6 performance already got worse with one of the last iOS 10 updates, especially when browsing the net. Using iOS 11 clearly all apps and especially switching between them feel slow and sometimes show some only half loaded apps for a couple of milliseconds.
If this should be done Apple had figured out a way to do this either automatically or would prompt the user. Which support documents on the Apple site recommend these steps?
It's common knowledge to those who are more serious in the workings of iOS. Developers, Beta testers. It's also one of the first steps done at Apple stores or through AppleCare calls when one has an issue. So I'm sure there is a Apple support document somewhere if that is important to you, then feel free to look for yourself. There are very easy steps for iOS devices to troubleshoot on your own. A good number of the issues people have been fixed with these steps. If it does not then your issue is more serious. It saves your time to try them first. http://www.techrepublic.com/article...s-on-your-iphone-following-a-software-update/
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It's certainly a tribal knowledge kind of thing - I also do it on my Android devices after updates.