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Current Overall Experience of iOS 11 Since Launch
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What's hilarious about it? (The good votes are still well ahead, even if neutral doesn't get counted.)
41% VS 38%.Seems 50/50 to me. Not really good feedback actually. Neutral is actually a massive fail for flagsip devices costing almost 1000 bucks
Looks like 43%, but why try to be accurate when trying to quote numbers if it's all just rounded and equalized to fit something. Kind of like a 0.25 fraction of a second delay is pretty close to 0 so it's essentially no delay.
And even with some 50/50 take it, it's certainly far from the terrible horror for everyone that some posts not just indirectly imply, but basically say that it is.
Yeah, it's not a fail, let alone a massive one. But sure, things can certainly be spun to fit a narrative where goalposts are moved and even good is a fail because it's not perfect.
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Stories like these.. especially worded in that manner is going to give apple more ideas.
So... just chiming in to report back that most of my performance niggles seem to be gone by 11.2 now.
Well, most.
My iPhone 6+ still a step or two below how it was with iOS 10.3.3 in performance and things still stutter more than I'd like, but it's finally back on par with Nexus 5X (not Pixel) running Android 8.0. So maybe Apple is finally paying more attention to optimizations and refinements. That's good.
Calculator bug is also fixed and the calculator went from unusable to now functional again, too.
Now, the bad:
Calculator still has animation bugs. Press 1+2+3 really fast and then press C to clear. The + key will be stuck and if you press, say... 4, next, then =, the result will be 7. That's wrong. Factually.
Here's the sequence:
1+2+3C4=
Expected output: 4
Got: 7
In fact, you can keep pressing = and it'll treat it as if the + key is held. That's also wrong.
The calculator is functional but still very broken.
Lock screen and home screen wallpapers are still treated as separate entities even when they are set to the exact same image. So the unlock animation and pulling the cover page down from the top looks weird. Past versions of iOS were smart enough to detect this and the unlock animation would at least try to avoid doing more unnecessary animations.
Orientation lock still doesn't really lock orientation in some odd cases. And I've only been able to fix these after a restart.
So things are better. I'll change my vote to "Good" simply because now the device is more reasonable as a daily driver again. But bugs remain.
And some interface elements still look odd/glitched sometimes like notifications having texts past windows/boundaries.
I'm just going to ignore text alignment and consistency issues since it's looking increasingly like they won't ever fix those.
Well, most.
My iPhone 6+ still a step or two below how it was with iOS 10.3.3 in performance and things still stutter more than I'd like, but it's finally back on par with Nexus 5X (not Pixel) running Android 8.0. So maybe Apple is finally paying more attention to optimizations and refinements. That's good.
Calculator bug is also fixed and the calculator went from unusable to now functional again, too.
Now, the bad:
Calculator still has animation bugs. Press 1+2+3 really fast and then press C to clear. The + key will be stuck and if you press, say... 4, next, then =, the result will be 7. That's wrong. Factually.
Here's the sequence:
1+2+3C4=
Expected output: 4
Got: 7
In fact, you can keep pressing = and it'll treat it as if the + key is held. That's also wrong.
The calculator is functional but still very broken.
Lock screen and home screen wallpapers are still treated as separate entities even when they are set to the exact same image. So the unlock animation and pulling the cover page down from the top looks weird. Past versions of iOS were smart enough to detect this and the unlock animation would at least try to avoid doing more unnecessary animations.
Orientation lock still doesn't really lock orientation in some odd cases. And I've only been able to fix these after a restart.
So things are better. I'll change my vote to "Good" simply because now the device is more reasonable as a daily driver again. But bugs remain.
And some interface elements still look odd/glitched sometimes like notifications having texts past windows/boundaries.
I'm just going to ignore text alignment and consistency issues since it's looking increasingly like they won't ever fix those.
Do you pay top dollars for average products or best in class?50/50 and the neutral votes are suggesting an average experience. The hardware is top notch and the software should complement this hardware. There is a reason Pixels are praised for their software. There have been no such issues reported on such a scale with Amdroid Oreo and iOS 11 should be held to this standard. Even if 40% customers are claiming bad performance that's a very bad number. When I go to buy a motherboard or any computer component I don't buy products with average ratings and the same goes for software.
How is it not a fail? It's ruined the battery life of older devices. The release is so horrible with performance that we went from the 6s destroying the Note 8 in speed tests on iOS 10 to Note 8 demolishing iPhone X on iOS 11. That's how big the downgrade is. We are just a month away at worst from the "supposed to be perfect" 11.3 and 11.2 still feels like iOS 11 is still in beta.
Yeah, it's not like Android or other software/hardware/etc. forums aren't full of complaints...oh, wait. The deflections, goalpost moving, hyperbole...the silliness is just too much.
There is no poll on Android Oreo where 40% customers say it's a bad release. On the contrary this comes on the first page for Android Oreo performance.
https://www.fastcompany.com/40461849/android-8-0-oreos-speed-and-stability-saved-my-aging-smartphone
You will not find a single article on the web saying iOS 11 saved my smartphone. Not one. I can find multiple posts on this.
Applying the same logic that you applied to iOS with respect to this kind of thing (as in iOS 9 to iOS 10), that basically means that previous Android versions were so bad that it couldn't get any worse and the latest was simply an improvement based on that. Yes, that was the logic you used to explain improvement from iOS 9 to 10, as an example.
My overall experience on iOS has been "very good" to say the least. My X runs iOS 11 flawlessly. I have noticed some blips on iOS 11 for my Mini 4, but nothing that makes me wish I could go back to iOS 10.3.3. My SE is still on iOS 10 since I like to keep one iDevice on the previous software.
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my report to apple bug reporter haven't seen the fix for lags and stutters yet so i'll keep texting them until we see a better change on ios 11
yeah truth be told I believe overall animations affected performance on ios 11 honestly all I'm currenty on ios 11.2 and all I see is pressing home screen within apps to go home makes a dancing stutter which is quite funny you'd think it was incorporated into the ios but no it's a lag because the app is struggling to sit back in although ios 11.2 has seen a little change in performance but it isn't very much okay yet there's still lags and animations stutters
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my report to apple bug reporter haven't seen the fix for lags and stutters yet so i'll keep texting them until we see a better change on ios 11
only a few minor changes noted in ios 11.2 with the camera app opening
faster there's still lags and animations being jerky across the ios
faster there's still lags and animations being jerky across the ios
"Very good"
You describe iOS 11 as very good but are unwilling to run iOS 11 on your iPhone SE. I wouldn't say that is very good.
Definitely don’t think this release was an Apple quality release. It reminds me of Android Lollipop.
I don't believe the first calculator function you describe is wrong. This behavior does occur (and it doesn't matter whether you do the calculation really fast or not). After you enter 3 when you press the C button you're just clearing the last digit entered, the 3. Notice that when you press the C button it changes to AC (I assume that means all clear) and if you press it again the entire calculation is cleared. So when you only press the C button once, you're deleting the 3, and by then pressing 4 you are in fact replacing the 3 with the 4 in the calculation: 1+2+4=7.
Now, the fact that it keeps adding 4 with you press = may be a bug, but I have found a couple of online calculators that do the same thing, and anecdotally I think I've seen this behavior in other physical calculators over the years. And, not surprisingly, the macOS calculator behaves the same way.
The skeletons are tumbling out of the closet. On iOS 11, the CPU slows down as your battery wears and the only way to get back the original performance is by paying Apple for battery replacement or buying a newer iPhone . Another instance of planned obsolescence
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7isatv/ios_slows_down_cpu_based_on_battery_wear_iphone/
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7isatv/ios_slows_down_cpu_based_on_battery_wear_iphone/
Reading the replies (and even the OP) in that thread seems to indicate that the precious, best ever and magical iOS 10 (from 10.2.1 onwards, to be exact) is also affected.
Wouldn't it be great if you had a thread to dedicate to this planned obsolescence -raving? Oh wait, there was one and it was locked. Read into that, maybe.
Wouldn't it be great if you had a thread to dedicate to this planned obsolescence -raving? Oh wait, there was one and it was locked. Read into that, maybe.
Has anyone here besides me used Android? I’ve had various performance issues and application crash issues on Android than I have iOS. I’ve had only one stutter on iOS so far. It was when updating apps - sizable one. If you want to move to Android be my guest. iOS is a far superior experience in my opinion. I’m using an SE too by the way.
how long you been using iOS? Been using ioS since 2008, have had to hard reset my phone more times this past year than I have ever had in the previous 8 years.
just had to hard reboot for the camera app screwing up... many screwups in iOS 11, and alot of people in the forums either denying them, got heads in sand, work for apple, or have a " I spent this much money apple cant do wrong" mentality. Unfortunately, all of that hurts the consumer , you know, the ones who helped Apple gain almost a trillion dollars.
I spent a bit of money on apple and am not afraid to call it as it is.
I spent a bit of money on apple and am not afraid to call it as it is.
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From the original Nexus to the Note 5.
For me the iPhone worked better with my work setup so I stuck with it - aside from having an iPad and a rMB.
Still, from iOS 7 on I have had more issue with iOS than Android. Then again I usually used Nova as my launcher of choice.