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How is the stability? (Merged)
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In an earlier post I said I would skip this years beta, but a few hours later I took the plunge, lol.
So far no issues on my 2018 ipad pro, or my iphone 11. Ya ya ya, it's my daily driver devices and I know what I've signed up for and don't need to be reminded.
Also at first I was very 'meh' to ios15/ipad15, but I must say it's been very stable and the subtle changes are starting to really help with the overall 'feel'. Performance hasn't taken any noticeable hit and the animations are a bit more 'fluid'. probably all in my head.
Haven't tested the shareplay feature yet, but everything feels more polished. Either way, if you're not prepared for some oddities, wait for the public.
So far no issues on my 2018 ipad pro, or my iphone 11. Ya ya ya, it's my daily driver devices and I know what I've signed up for and don't need to be reminded.
Also at first I was very 'meh' to ios15/ipad15, but I must say it's been very stable and the subtle changes are starting to really help with the overall 'feel'. Performance hasn't taken any noticeable hit and the animations are a bit more 'fluid'. probably all in my head.
Haven't tested the shareplay feature yet, but everything feels more polished. Either way, if you're not prepared for some oddities, wait for the public.
It runs wonderfully for me.... on iPhone 12 Pro.
On my iPad Pro, different story... feels buggier and home screen messes up a bit. It runs, just not as smoothly as on iPhone so far.
On my iPad Pro, different story... feels buggier and home screen messes up a bit. It runs, just not as smoothly as on iPhone so far.
It’s great on my 12 pro, but I’m seeing a lot of problems on my aging 6th generation iPad. No show stoppers, just glitchy audio and hesitation with multitasking. To be expected with an older device, particularly in an early beta. Hoping it’s not 3 weeks before beta 2, but resigned to the fact it may be.
No body really complains about the stability of iOS betas because they know what to expect going into it. What people always seem to overlook however, is app compatibility and it's this that will either make or break iOS betas for you.
Try reading this thread for knowing how stable it is for people:
iOS 15 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
This thread to see what apps do and do not work:
iOS 15 Broken/Buggy Apps
Too often people around there jump in and once they start their device as normal, they often find out that a crucial app doesn't work and they get all mad at Apple. lol
Been running it since day 1. My biggest issue is that when connecting to wifi, "iCloud Relay" keeps turning itself on, and a lot of times it will randomly fail. When this happens anything I visit on Safari will give me the error, "Your iPhone is not connected to the internet". Easily fixable, but definitely annoying that I have to toggle it so often. Other than that I've had some heat near the processor randomly, but nothing crazy. I don't think I've had any resprings/reboots. Battery isn't noticeably better or worse than iOS 14 was. iPhone 12 Pro Max, btw.
That’s what the IOS15 Beta forum is for right now so you can make your own determination as to its stability for your needs. It’s stable for some and not for others.
It depends on your device. For me:
iPhone 7 (A10) - Stable but will miss some features
XS Max (A12) - Stable
iPad Pro 9.7 (A9X) - Lag and missing features
While its great that Apple offers upgrades for so long, there really is a sweet spot for OS versions on older devices where the device really runs smoothly. We know the beta performance will improve but with iOS15 then there's a lot of features that simply won't go to devices lower than A11 and (to me) the improvements are too minimal to risk a one-way upgrade.
iPhone 7 (A10) - Stable but will miss some features
XS Max (A12) - Stable
iPad Pro 9.7 (A9X) - Lag and missing features
While its great that Apple offers upgrades for so long, there really is a sweet spot for OS versions on older devices where the device really runs smoothly. We know the beta performance will improve but with iOS15 then there's a lot of features that simply won't go to devices lower than A11 and (to me) the improvements are too minimal to risk a one-way upgrade.
On iPhone 12, I have encountered:
- Multiple widgets stacks randomly and repeatedly insert Siri Suggestions widget
- Laggy overall, although not objectionably slow
- Video playback often freezes, sometimes resumes only with audio playback
- Optimized Battery Charging is sometimes wonky
- Sometimes gets stuck using Wi-Fi, even after I have long drove away from the network (need to reboot to resolve)
- VPN sometimes sucks up a lot of battery life
haha yes everyone seems to be responding about iOS 15 and not iPadOS 15. Most of this forum is about iOS 15 too. Thanks!
Beta 2, quite stable on the 2020 iPad Pro 11 inch. Safari sometimes crashes, and the battery is a bit less, but that's mostly it.
Does spatial audio with headtracking work with Music and Youtube on ipados 15? Why are so few people talking about it? It's huge?
PB is very stable, no crashes so far, everything running smoothly.
Just installed PB and so far it is quite good; no resprings and twitter app just crashed couple of times but, it still works. Bit loss of frames here and there, especially when it comes to widgets on iPadOS screen..
safari does seem to be fine. Surfshark has stopped working and i can't seem to find a way to turn off Private Relay; Its not there for me on icloud settings page.
safari does seem to be fine. Surfshark has stopped working and i can't seem to find a way to turn off Private Relay; Its not there for me on icloud settings page.