For those claiming 9.0 GM is not laggy...

[bandofbrothers]

I can confirm iOS 9 GM stutters on my 6+ when opening and using the app switcher.

Hi,

Can you confirm what the experience is like on your iPhone 6 Plus using safari for surfing , reading and sending eMails ,sending texts and making phone calls.

Lag from opening up apps and opening up the switcher or control centre are background worries for me.

I'm at this time a little more interested in using the phone as above.

 

[Beavix]

Can you confirm what the experience is like on your iPhone 6 Plus using safari for surfing , reading and sending eMails ,sending texts and making phone calls.

It works fine, the only annoying thing is there seems to be a 1/2 sec. delay when doing some things like opening the apps or going back to the home screen. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I feel I'm faster than the phone

 

[bandofbrothers]

It works fine, the only annoying thing is there seems to be a 1/2 sec. delay when doing some things like opening the apps or going back to the home screen. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I feel I'm faster than the phone

Thank you.

They are my main concerns but I'm in no way making light of people's experiences and expectations.

I can personally live with what I'm reading as long as I can use the phone as I mentioned above or I'll stay on iOS 8.4.1

 

[wsc9005]

iOS 9 is definitely not better than iOS 8.4.1 on an iPhone 6 Plus. Do not comment about it unless you are using an iPhone 6 Plus.

This version is supposedly to be a refinement release, as advertised or mentioned in WWDC back in June. However it is not good enough, not on a 6 Plus.

 

[newellj]

No. Each iteration should be better than the last. The only pass I'd give is for iOS 7 where things were drastically different. iOS has not been smooth and lag free since iOS 6.

8 on my 6 stutters. Those who can't see it are blind or ignorant...and honestly, I wish I didn't notice it either, because it bugs the heck out of me.

It is true and yes, I'm bitter that Apple hasn't released a stutter free iOS since 2013.


People are dumb.

It is not unreasonable to expect a new OS on new hardware to be better than an old OS on old hardware, right?

Did you notice stutters on 8.4.1? Didn't think so.

You don't notice it, but it is there. Fear not, you fall into the largest group of people.

People are dumb dude. I don't doubt for a minute those people actually thought it was the new iPhone.

So this is the sum of your facts and your argument? That you are right and others are wrong, that you are smart and others are dumb?

 

[ipooed]

Well my wife gave me permission to upgrade her 6 to 9GM (I am running 8.3 on mine) battery drain WOW (even with spotlight turned off) not sure if it still "indexes" lag is there compared to what I am used to on 8.3

I do like the new font and overall look but I am not ready to compromise my phone, she is using it saying nothing is wrong (she also can use a iPod touch 5 while her phone is charging and she says it's fine, even though it's a lag fest)

I truly believe it's what people can deal with a lag and stutter might drive some mad while others just shrug it off

I guess from iOS 4-6 I was just spoiled and devolved a standard on Apple and iOS firmware.

I wasn't long giving her phone back to her saying "you deal with it" give me mine.

 

[Dreamliner330]

So this is the sum of your facts and your argument? That you are right and others are wrong, that you are smart and others are dumb?

Precisely. I believe that people don't notice the stutters, but they exist. Which is exactly why the poll/thread I created asked iOS 9 users if they noticed any problems in iOS 8. Obviously, the ones that didn't notice any problems in 8 didn't notice problems in 9.

Heck, even the guy a few posts back who noted that his wife's iOS 6 iPhone 5 was really smooth was impressed, lately people have been conditioned to the new iOS stutters/glitches.

Most people are pretty dumb, you don't have to look too far to figure that out.

 

[Beavix]

Oh God, I switched to a dynamic wallpaper on the 6 Plus and now the lag of the app switcher UI is unbearable. This is ugly.

 

[zoneee]

There are quite a few discussions about 8.4 and 8.4.1 causing performance and other issues for people (compared to let's say 8.3). There were plenty of discussions of 8.0 being worse than 7.x. Now 8.x is being held up as some standard.

It happens every year basically. Same things at about the same time. Nothing really new.

Bottom line is that many of the worse issues come down to just a small group
of people who have something with their installation or configuration or something like that. Various other issues are bugs and instabilities that apply to more, but many of those aren't things that many people run into or affected by all that much even when they do run into them.

This is bs, no offense.
It doesnt depend on configuration or installation, it is random. same build same phone same update/install method, different results. I had great battery and no lag with 8.3, really bad with 8.4, fixed with 8.4.1. other people will say the opposite. Truth is you cant predict it, you cant understand why, and thats why a lot of people are mad at apple, because they cant consistently improve their software. some people work with their phones, you know?

 

[C DM]

This is bs, no offense.
It doesnt depend on configuration or installation, it is random. same build same phone same update/install method, different results. I had great battery and no lag with 8.3, really bad with 8.4, fixed with 8.4.1. other people will say the opposite. Truth is you cant predict it, you cant understand why, and thats why a lot of people are mad at apple, because they cant consistently improve their software. some people work with their phones, you know?

The randomness is what makes it based on something different like installation and configuration or something similar. It isn't just random because of something supernatural. That said, the underlying point in that is that it is different for different people, which is what the reality is.

 

[zoneee]

The randomness is what makes it based on something different like installation and configuration or something similar. It isn't just random because of something supernatural. That said, the underlying point in that is that it is different for different people, which is what the reality is.

Yeah, but my point is that this randomness is out of user's control, it doesnt depend on his config or use, it depends on something i still didnt understand. i could never find a pattern, like this os will run well/bad on this device with this update method or with these apps.

 

[C DM]

Yeah, but my point is that this randomness is out of user's control, it doesnt depend on his config or use, it depends on something i still didnt understand. i could never find a pattern, like this os will run well/bad on this device with this update method or with these apps.

That part of it is true. It can still be based on some or all of those things, but there's not much to indicate on what exactly, or why, or what can be changed to make it better. Sometimes reinstalling gets things back to normal for people, sometimes not using a backup, sometimes it's none of those. So it's still often unknown as to what is behind it, but there's still something behind it, and it doesn't apply the same way to other people (and again that's basically the point that some can have issues while others might not have them).

 

[zoneee]

That part of it is true. It can still be based on some or all of those things, but there's not much to indicate on what exactly, or why, or what can be changed to make it better. Sometimes reinstalling gets things back to normal for people, sometimes not using a backup, sometimes it's none of those. So it's still often unknown as to what is behind it, but there's still something behind it, and it doesn't apply the same way to other people (and again that's basically the point that some can have issues while others might not have them).

yup. It is just frustrating not being able to know beforehand whats going to happen to your device before you install. shame on apple for this.

 

[madara889]

Overall ios9 is laggy

 

[C DM]

Overall ios9 is laggy

It seems that some people are experiencing this, while others are not.

 

[KALLT]

I made a quick video of iOS 9.1 Beta 1 on my iPhone 6. I recorded it through QuickTime (can cause a bit of slowdown) from an old 09 17" Macbook Pro. But the video shows a pretty good representation of how quick it runs.

Seriously? This is not how my iPhone 6 works. Opening Spotlight always stutters unless I opened it a few seconds before. Especially when dragging it from the top it nearly always stutters. I don’t know how it can be so different.

Admittedly, iOS 9.1 has improved things quite a bit over the GM. I am confident that the GM is an old build and that 9.1 is what Apple has been working on the most the last couple of weeks.

 

[Armen]

It is true and yes, I'm bitter that Apple hasn't released a stutter free iOS since 2013.

What do you hope to accomplish with this thread exactly? Unless the majority of iOS users are complaining about performance like you are or people stop buying iPhones because of it Apple isnt going to change anything.

I've had the iPhone since the 3GS. Every iPhone model is good for at least 2-3 versions of iOS until it's age shows. By this time most people already get a new iPhone.

 

[TommyA6]

I'm sure you understand any software is always a work in progress. iOS 9 GM isn't going to be the last version of iOS 9.

Give iOS 9.1 Public Beta a shot. It's pretty damn good compared to 9.0 GM.

I'm sorry, but when one of your (very few) major features is improved performance and animation smoothness, customers have every right to expect it from the very beginning of public availability.
iOS 9 has almost no new features, and Apple yet again managed to screw things up performance wise.
iOS 7 performance was a step back from iOS 6 perfect smoothness, but it was a complete redesign.
iOS 8 performance was a step back from iOS 7.1 great performance, but at least it was feature packed.
iOS 9 performance is a step back from iOS 8.4.1 pretty good performance and it has almost NO NEW FEATURES!
That to me is inexcusable.

 

[Armen]

iOS 9 has almost no new features, and Apple yet again managed to screw things up performance wise.

According to who? You? I'm running iOS 9.1 PB1 on my 6+ and it performs just as well as 8.4.1

Pro Active Siri is a huge feature but what do most people care? All they do is text on their $650.00 smartphone.

 

[Damolee]

What I don't understand. iOS 9 "feature" was meant to be great performance and improved battery life. It offers neither. I'm at a complete loss here. Waste of time even releasing it.

 

[Prabas]

For me iOS 9 hasn't changed anything. Everything is as smooth as it was before and battery is as good, definitely not worse. Yes, there were issues with last beta versions, but GM and 9.1 Beta 1 are really great.

 

[T5BRICK]

iOS 9 seems to run fine on my 6 plus. There are stutters here and there, but I don't expect perfection in a x.0 software release. I'm not sure why anyone would...

 

[TommyA6]

According to who? You? I'm running iOS 9.1 PB1 on my 6+ and it performs just as well as 8.4.1

Pro Active Siri is a huge feature but what do most people care? All they do is text on their $650.00 Smart Phone.

Proactive Siri is one feature, and it isn't available worldwide.

Have you tried rotating screen in spotlight? It still drops frames like in iOS 8.4.1
App switcher still drops frames when entering an app (That wasn't present in iOS 8.4.1)

 

[TommyA6]

iOS 9 seems to run fine on my 6 plus. There are stutters here and there, but I don't expect perfection in a x.0 software release. I'm not sure why anyone would...

Because the whole point of iOS 9 were performance and smoothness improvements.

 

[T5BRICK]

Because the whole point of iOS 9 were performance and smoothness improvements.

It's a x.0 software release. What do you expect? This happens EVERY year.