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iOS 10 is the OS that iOS 9 promised to be...
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9 was awful for me. Battery would disappear before I knew it despite doing a full clean install without even restoring backups. I was about to give up and figured it was bad hardware and then I loaded up PB4 of ios10. Wow! Phone is *snappy* and battery life is hours better.
Battery is better!? not being sure about battery life is the one thing preventing me going iOS 10
***i went for the jailbreak instead
Battery is better!? not being sure about battery life is the one thing preventing me going iOS 10
***i went for the jailbreak instead
Ya I was shocked. But here I am at 8:30pm with 40% battery left.
Dev beta 6 is giving me super battery life too, never had more than 20-30% battery life by bed time on 6s plus, last night i had 47% so could have gone another day with heavy usage!Battery is better!? not being sure about battery life is the one thing preventing me going iOS 10
***i went for the jailbreak instead
So funny how iOS 8 is now used for the ultimate performance example. iOS 8 was the slowest release in it's time.
Perfectly shows that people's perception is really crap.
Perfectly shows that people's perception is really crap.
As I recall 7.1.2 is way more stable and smooth than 8.4.1 and even 9.3.*
My iPhone 6 shipped with iOS 8 so that's the only other OS I can compare 9 to on my iPhone 6.
How is that funny?
I find iOS 10 on my iPhone 5 far more satisfactory than iOS 9. iOS 9 introduced a lot of stutter and lag to my devices despite very few changes, yet iOS 10 seems on par with, sometimes better, sometimes slightly worse than iOS 9, despite iOS 10 being a bigger upgrade.
All and all the iPhone 5 with iOS 10 is impressive. On the Mini 2 however, it leaves a lot to be desired, though that thing has been a stutter/lag fest since iOS 8 unfortunately.
iOS 9 remains the most disappointing version ever for me. The first version to promise improvements in stability and speed, yet demonstrating the opposite. Have never seen an iDevice that speed up with iOS 9, just a heap that slowed down.
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Or just highlights how bad 9 was. iOS 8 definitely slowed things, but 9 was the icing on the cake. 7 at least had an excuse for the slow down, and 8 also had a lot of new features.
All and all the iPhone 5 with iOS 10 is impressive. On the Mini 2 however, it leaves a lot to be desired, though that thing has been a stutter/lag fest since iOS 8 unfortunately.
iOS 9 remains the most disappointing version ever for me. The first version to promise improvements in stability and speed, yet demonstrating the opposite. Have never seen an iDevice that speed up with iOS 9, just a heap that slowed down.
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Or just highlights how bad 9 was. iOS 8 definitely slowed things, but 9 was the icing on the cake. 7 at least had an excuse for the slow down, and 8 also had a lot of new features.
Because it's every year the same. Eventually the actual iOS version becomes super fast and the new one is a total disaster. Only difference here is that you saying it's actually the new one which is better. Nevertheless the funny part is that iOS 8 was also "slow" so that example for speediness really does not make sense.
And as I said, it just proves perfectly that the perception of people here is freaking bad.
Even funnier is that 99.9 percent of all iOS users won't ever and couldn't spot the difference. Sometimes I think some of you guys here think Apple is developing iOS for just a little fun and doesn't care how it works out. Some of the best developers of the world are working on iOS. Just relax and enjoy.
I didn't have any issues with iOS 8 other than the status bar doing odd things after unlocking the phone.
On my iPhone 6, iOS 8 FLEW and felt a lot like iOS 10 does now.
One thing that I hope Apple implements again is the ability to tap something before the animation has completely settled down (like in iOS 8). It makes navigation so much faster.
So yeah, in many, many ways, iOS 8 WAS actually faster and smoother than iOS 9. I don't know how you can argue that it wasn't.
Like I said before, I only have 1 iPhone and since it didn't ship with iOS 7, I only have 8 and 9 and 10 to compare. Out of all 3 versions, 8 is the performance king whereas 9 sucked and 10 is catching up to 8 quite nicely.
iOS 8>10>9
So yeah, I'm quite excited that Apple is this far along with iOS 10 and it's not even out of beta yet!
Are you sure the slight increase in animation speed isn't clouding the truth of how fast it is? Sure in some system apps it might appear to be slightly faster because the animations but overall 10 still looks a titch slower loading most 3rd party apps than 9.3. And yes they haven't been "optimized" for iOS 10 yet but I remember the same thing being said back when iOS 9 was in beta and then well... iOS 9 remained and remains slower than 8.4 on the 6. And yes man oh man I miss the touch input during animations. Why they took it out? Who knows? It totally changed the feel for someone who uses their iPhone in a fast way.
I hope iOS 10 does actually get faster or at the very least up to par with 9.3 but it hasn't quite yet.
I hope iOS 10 does actually get faster or at the very least up to par with 9.3 but it hasn't quite yet.
That's interesting because I only use system apps on my iPhone. No 3rd party apps at all. So I've only been comparing Apple's to Apple's ;-)
Also, I'm never going to notice a millisecond in difference between opening an App on 9.3 and opening an app on 10. What I do notice is how smooth the entire interface is in iOS 10. I don't see frames dropping and it visually looks very fluid. It looks to me like a constant 60fps (like how iOS 8 used to be on my iPhone 6)
That's really what I'm talking about. They really messed up the smoothness in iOS 9 and it looks like with iOS 10, they're taking it back to where it needed to be.
As mentioned, Apple touted better performance with iOS 9. It was all over their preview and marketing materials however it pretty much was the same or worse for most folks. Certainly not better for anyone I ever saw. Again I am talking performance wise here. I happen to like 9 from the features standpoint.
I myself was using an iP6 and I was not in the stutter/lag camp of complainers. However it DID have more stutter and lag than iOS 8. It just wasn't that big a deal to me as some of the many posts seemed to elude to. Like press control center while in SIRI and it drops a frame and stutters (um ok so who does that anyway). And if you move control center up REALLY slow, you have to do it slow, you will see the drop. (again who does that verses flipping it up with the flick of your finger). Anyway that doesn't change the fact that those issues did exist and were worse than iOS8 just not as bad as some made it out to be. However, IMO iOS9 was always more stable hands down. Anyway I agree and am glad to see iOS10 shaping up to finally be a nice OS again both with features AND performance!
PS glad it finally fixed your auto brightness issue!
It's quite likely that whatever they tried to do in iOS 9 with Metal didn't quite pan out as they well as they hoped and now is more or less just the foundation for and why iOS 10 feels smoother. (Coupled with the fact that iOS 10 kernel is unencrypted, which as Apple has said allows them to further do OS optimizations)
Honestly after using iOS 9, and then iOS 10, I have come to the thought that iOS 9 felt like the beta for iOS 10. Terrible in the beginning. I remember when I had an iPhone 6, and I updated to the GM, and it was very buggy and lag was present all over. Same situation on one of my friends' iPhone 6, and my 5s. It was kind of disappointing. iOS 9.3 has been magic, although I no longer have an iPhone 6 to see what kind of magic it was on there, but even on my 6s, 9.0 vs 9.3 was a massive improvement. But iOS 10, despite its beta bugs, has been perfect for me right off the bat. iOS 7 to iOS 8 on my 5s included a noticeable performance decrease, same with iOS 8 to iOS 9 on my iPhone 6, but on my iPhone 6s, there is no noticeable difference from iOS 9 to iOS 10. iOS 10 is off to a great start. Haven't been able to say that about a major version of iOS in a while
the initial builds of iOS 9 definitely felt slower on the 6 plus and had more stutters. Even iOS 8 had slightly more stutters on the 6 plus and was smoother on the 6. I think it took 9.3 to smoothen things out . 9.3 was quite good. iOS 10 feels fast right from the pb 2 which was not the case with iOS 9 versions. I think the expectations for iOS 9 were very high since apple had advertised it as performance improvements and that was clearly not the case. Apple didn't talk about performance improvement at all in iOS 10 and instead focused on notifications /messages etc so the performance improvements is a pleasant surprise. Also the animations have change slightly from previous versions of iOS so the system appears more fluid
Yes. And we'll also see a few "iOS 9 was the best version of iOS" threads, because the previous version of iOS is always the best once it stops being the worst.
That's not true. When Apple comes out with something truly better, I will say it's better. I'm not just going to say iOS 9 was the best simply because I got used to it.
So ios 10 is really smoother then ios 9?
Ios 8 was super smooth, fluid UI, perfect animations. With ios 9 every animations should be prime to become almost smooth and sometimes you can see frame drops unlocking the phone or opening a app. Terrible to see!!
I'm not interesting in the time occurs to open an app, but I want see a phone with a very fluid interface, like ios 8 was.
Ios 8 was super smooth, fluid UI, perfect animations. With ios 9 every animations should be prime to become almost smooth and sometimes you can see frame drops unlocking the phone or opening a app. Terrible to see!!
I'm not interesting in the time occurs to open an app, but I want see a phone with a very fluid interface, like ios 8 was.
Pleased that you're having a positive experience with iOS 10 in Beta.
One thing though, we don't yet know what Apple's overall promise and marketing positions are for iOS 10 as that'll only be announced in full at the final big reveal in September.
Not really. iOS 9 was shown off at WWDC and that's when they started advertising it's features and benefits. iOS 10 was shown off at this years WWDC and they made no mention of better performance (probably because they're trying to sweep iOS 9 under the rug hoping nobody noticed)