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How's iOS 11 running on your device


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papbot

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Curious, is the experience any better/different on a new device (iPhone 8 or X) as opposed to upgrading an older device (6, 7)?
I have an 8 Plus and 2017 12” iPad Pro. The experience on both has pretty much been the same. 11.0 - bad to very bad. 11.1 good. 11.2 bad. So far iOS 11 has probably been the worst release of any iOS I’ve used. I consider the 11.0 version that was released to really just be another beta. 11.1 felt like what should have been released.
 
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JM

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I have an 8 Plus and 2017 12” iPad Pro. The experience on both has pretty much been the same. 11.0 - bad to very bad. 11.1 good. 11.2 bad. So far iOS 11 has probably been the worst release of any iOS I’ve used. I consider the 11.0 version that was released to really just be another beta. 11.1 felt like what should have been released.
Where you around for iOS 8, and how did it compare to that? (8.0 onward.)
 

dk001

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Bayshun

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I have run into a ridiculous number of problems since the update to the most recent version of iOS when compared to prior versions. My phone reboots randomly and regularly, Safari regularly just does not load webpages (not even Google) and requires a restart of the app to get working, the whole OS lags randomly during use, touches are often unresponsive; the list goes on and on. Just now, the home bar disappeared and I got stuck in app with no way to get out of it without rebooting the phone. The app itself worked fine: I could browse, watch videos, do searches, etc., but I couldn’t get out of it. For the first time ever with an Apple product, I’m really starting to feel ripped off.
 
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kagharaht

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Restored as new. It’s been stable and back to normal now. No more texting delays. So there you go. Do that and it will fix your issues unless you have hardware problems.
 

JM

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I have it only on my iPad 2017 and i experience a lot of app crashes in apps i use a lot for school so .... apple messed up big time
I also get a very annoying lag everytime i try to access my widget tray
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1RzJPhlEOkhLpi8aqQas30RqZjivuH_2j
omg, F that. Staying on 10.3.3.... That's annoying.... I bought a 7 so I wouldn't have to deal with lag, which the 5s had on iOS 10.3.3. (lag opening messages and maps... lag on share sheet to messages or mail from pictures.... lag pulling down a notification because the 5s was slower processing all the Messages garbage introduced in iOS 10.)

Sorry, that lag would frustrate me terribly :(
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Restored as new. It’s been stable and back to normal now. No more texting delays. So there you go. Do that and it will fix your issues unless you have hardware problems.
I hope the restore as new would fix the lagging issues and instability.... I have no desire to go back to iOS 8 frustrations.
 

C DM

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Oct 17, 2011
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omg, F that. Staying on 10.3.3.... That's annoying.... I bought a 7 so I wouldn't have to deal with lag, which the 5s had on iOS 10.3.3. (lag opening messages and maps... lag on share sheet to messages or mail from pictures.... lag pulling down a notification because the 5s was slower processing all the Messages garbage introduced in iOS 10.)

Sorry, that lag would frustrate me terribly :(
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I hope the restore as new would fix the lagging issues and instability.... I have no desire to go back to iOS 8 frustrations.
One of the main questions there would be whether or not others are experiencing the same kind of thing with their widgets? Is it mainly those with that particular iPad model? Or is it in a sense random/isolated experiences that some are having?
 

brownbird

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Does anyone know offhand if you can jailbreak an iPhone 8 to ios 10.x? As I recall, some of the mac firmware disallows an OS install that is older than the machine itself. Wonder if this is the case with iOS devices too.
 

C DM

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Does anyone know offhand if you can jailbreak an iPhone 8 to ios 10.x? As I recall, some of the mac firmware disallows an OS install that is older than the machine itself. Wonder if this is the case with iOS devices too.
No jailbreak (even if one existed, which it doesn't right now) would allow for a version of an OS that never existed for a device to be installable on that device.
 

Radon87000

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Nov 29, 2013
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The fact that the bad and neutral votes are so high prove what a train wreck of a release this has been. Apple just beat Microsoft in releasing Windows Vista 2017.

I will leave you guys with a fact

We had the 6s beating the Note 8 2 years later on iOS 10. On iOS 11 we have Note 8 absolutely thrashing iPhone X in speed tests and ram management.
 

JM

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One of the main questions there would be whether or not others are experiencing the same kind of thing with their widgets? Is it mainly those with that particular iPad model? Or is it in a sense random/isolated experiences that some are having?
Fair enough. It's worrisome enough to wonder if the upgrade is worth the gamble, though. It could be an app not optimized, sure, that's causing the lag.
 

Raysofhope

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Nov 1, 2012
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It's been terrible! I am experiencing lots of lags and can't synchronize anymore my contacts with my Bluetooth car radio. It was perfect until I changed to iOS 11
 
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Radon87000

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One of the main questions there would be whether or not others are experiencing the same kind of thing with their widgets? Is it mainly those with that particular iPad model? Or is it in a sense random/isolated experiences that some are having?
Yes I was experiencing lags on iPad Pro 12.9. That was on 11.0. Downgraded instantly and since then I have zero stutters on iOS 10 which is to say 2 months of stutter free device. I encounter stutters on 7 Plus running iOS 11 on a daily basis.
 

bashman2020

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It's been terrible! I am experiencing lots of lags and can't synchronize anymore my contacts with my Bluetooth car radio. It was perfect until I changed to iOS 11
the poll says it all , point being that the overall UI experience on ios 11 is laggy and not smooth as it was on ios 10 with no UI lags or animations struggling to sit in on older devices
 

C DM

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The fact that the bad and neutral votes are so high prove what a train wreck of a release this has been. Apple just beat Microsoft in releasing Windows Vista 2017.

I will leave you guys with a fact

We had the 6s beating the Note 8 2 years later on iOS 10. On iOS 11 we have Note 8 absolutely thrashing iPhone X in speed tests and ram management.
the poll says it all , point being that the overall UI experience on ios 11 is laggy and not smooth as it was on ios 10 with no UI lags or animations struggling to sit in on older devices
Well, if we are in fact looking at the poll, seems like it says that more people are having some sort of a "good" experience than a "bad" one. And if "neutral" and "good" are looked at together, it's quite a bit more compared to "bad".

So, seems like the poll isn't quite saying what you are implying it's saying (nor does it really say much of anything compared to iOS 10 or any other version, as that isn't what the poll is asking).
 
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slooksterPSV

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I haven’t had any problems and my SE started with 9.3.5 I think. Got it about 2 months ago.

I feel bad for those having issues but for those “threatening” to move to Android do what you need to. Use what works for you. Just know that you can’t get any Android Phone as you’ll have storage issues out of the box. My moms new Android came with 16GB... it’s full... nothing can or will move to the microsd. While mine has 64GB with 31GB used. The same apps she uses take up only about 4GB on mine minus the os of 8gb and that’s still 4GB free from 16GB

Now if it’s slow, backup your data and try a fresh clean factory reset. It may help. I can’t say for sure as I’ve upgraded every time.

Good luck
 

phoni

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Sep 18, 2012
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iOS 11 , designed by and for pre-teens.

Suggestion:
Apple, get rid of all the superfluousness and bloatware, and get back to intuitive user interface...form follows function
 

Radon87000

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Well, if we are in fact looking at the poll, seems like it says that more people are having some sort of a "good" experience than a "bad" one. And if "neutral" and "good" are looked at together, it's quite a bit more compared to "bad".

So, seems like the poll isn't quite saying what you are implying it's saying (nor does it really say much of anything compared to iOS 10 or any other version, as that isn't what the poll is asking).
Neutral score isn't a very good score for an OS which once prided itself for smoothness and stability. It's something I would have expected from Android of he past. 40% of the users are posting bad which is still a substantial number.
 
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Aydy

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The poll is far from scientific.
Who is asking for scientific? Are you insinuating if it’s non scientific then it’s not true? You do know that it is not just the MacRumors community who are finding issue with iOS11? Its across the board. Yes some users don’t seem to be affected or don’t notice but for the ones with issue it unfortunately does not end with one issue but multiple in many cases. And it’s all out there, under a quick google search.

I am sure Apple are aware of the issues, I am certain the staff at Apple are also facing some, if not all of the issues we are dealing with, heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if Tim Cs iPhone is glitching the same as ours. But his focus is elsewhere atm. People just want to know that there is a priority to get this fixed and the silence from Apple right now does not instill confidence and people with devices older than 8 are rightly concerned that This Is It! As good as it gets. There has long been a worry when updating an Apple device, other than the current release, that this would be the update to cripple said device but we don’t expect it 1 year after purchase
 
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C DM

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Neutral score isn't a very good score for an OS which once prided itself for smoothness and stability. It's something I would have expected from Android of he past. 40% of the users are posting bad which is still a substantial number.
Neutral is neutral. It means people are fine with what they have. It's not a negative thing. In the context of my earlier reply that plays a role.

Even leaving out neutral, more users are posting that its good, and that's from an online forum where by nature more negatives and complaints come out. Sure, there are those who are seeing things as not being good for them, but that doesn't mean that thing are therefore bad or really all that diffeent that typical.
 
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CTHarrryH

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And any poll on a forum where many people only come to complain isn't a very representative of the community at large. All that I know that are on IOS 11 are very happy with it - but that isn't a real survey either.
For 6 months a year people complain that nothing changes in IOS and then the next 6 months they complain about bloat and why did they make all the changes
 

Act3

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Neutral is neutral. It means people are fine with what they have. It's not a negative thing.

I look at neutral being a negative thing as tech should always be improving. Achieving "fine" or "satisfactory" should never be a good thing unless you have achieved below that to begin with.
 
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C DM

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I look at neutral being a negative thing as tech should always be improving. Achieving "fine" or "satisfactory" should never be a good thing unless you have achieved below that to begin with.
People can certainly interpret something differently depending on what view they take on it. In the context that most of this has been in response to (which is the post #90) where the interpretation that things are overall worse compared to before, neutral wouldn't fall into the category of things that would be part of that (since neutral doesn't mean worse, even if one thinks that things should be better).
 
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