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iOS 11 on iPhone 6s - Performance.

It's not my iPhone but I put iOS 11 GM Candidate on my wife's 6s. Seems fine to me. While there may be a very occasional stutter, overall performance is fine. I could use it as my daily driver. As for my 7 Plus, it seems totally fine. No increased stuttering or lag. The feel of iOS 11 on the 7 Plus is excellent.

Put it this way: iOS 11 on the 6s is noticeably better than the 6 on iOS 10. This is likely due to the doubled RAM in the 6s. I am very happy I skipped the 6.
 
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I recommend anyone who experience issues to restore and erase all contents like did. My 6S runs flawlessly now.
 
ios 11 runs on my 6s like a tired fat*ss dog. A little stutter here and here and here and you end with "a little stutter" everywhere. More precisely, every animation that runs for the first time in minutes, it stutters but after that it s fine but no one is gonna do the same stuff twice to see some smooth stuff. So far, 11 is **** on both 6s and 7.
 
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I installed iOS 11 GM right on top of 10.3.3. In these days I already had to hard reboot three times the phone because suddenly when on home screen I can’t swipe pages nor open any app. Just the sleep button works, even though not to show the power off screen.
Battery is a little worse than 10.3.3 but that’s expected.
Obviously I won’t erase all data because it’s not a Windows PC and I expect to just upgrade from stable release to stable release.
 
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You forget though that Everytime you upgrade over old versions, that stuff gets left behind old cruft ect.... I'm not sure why folks are so against doing clean installs and would rather sit around and grip about how the new os is crap and not working right like there old version.
 
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Clean installs can be a PITA.

I still do it every so often but often times I skip it with a new OS release. IOW, I don’t do clean installs every year with every new OS release.
 
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My 6s is also perfomning beautifuly with ios11. It certainly feels smoother than ios10 in every sence except so minir lag when engaging in 3D touch features. The removal of 3d touch multitask is a crime but I was happy to read a few hours ago that it will eventually return in a future ios11 update.

All in all i am mighty impressed. I have been running since beta 1 and the gm is just wonderful. This phone doesnt feel 2 years old i swear! I am a huge performance and framerate sensitive guy and i want everything to feel smooth and snappy and ios 11 truly feels even better than ios 10. To give an example scrolling through my messages in ios 10 was laggy but in ios 11 its buttery smooth.

Frankly i dont get all the negative talk about it, not that i am trying to say people dont know what they are talking about, but i have been using ios in beta for like 1 and half month and i really have a very good experience. Phone feels fresh.

All i need is 3d touch multitask... and i am set.
 
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TwoBytes said:
It's intentionally bad performance and battery drain...as if apple wants people to buy new phones.....
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Then the deliberate "poor performance" code is broken on mine...

6S, performance fine and battery seems good overnight, just as before...
 
Just the Control Center makes it worth the upgrade.Battery is not that good and there are some performance hiccups from time to time. But generally the design and the control center makes it worth it :)
 
utente__mac said:
I installed iOS 11 GM right on top of 10.3.3. In these days I already had to hard reboot three times the phone because suddenly when on home screen I can’t swipe pages nor open any app. Just the sleep button works, even though not to show the power off screen.
Battery is a little worse than 10.3.3 but that’s expected.
Obviously I won’t erase all data because it’s not a Windows PC and I expect to just upgrade from stable release to stable release.
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Had to hard reboot mine four times yesterday and just now. 6s on iOS 11. Kinda sucks cause it stink to have to hard reboot to call 911 or anything else in an emergency. Really want to keep iOS 11 but need the reliability.
 
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I don't get how the expectations of 'it just works' matches up with 'you should do a clean install every upgrade crowd.'

Once the iPhone went from a device to the tech crowd to mainstream, the expectation should be that upgrades are easy. There are a lot of casual users that likely aren't even backing up their phone. Expecting them to do a clean wipe and install every year is a bit much. I think about my mother and mother-in-law who live out of town and are in their 70s. They love their iPhones and iPads. They both use it to text, call, and FaceTime family and use way more apps than I ever would have guessed. But they aren't going to wipe their phones and reinstall things every year.

They probably wouldn't even bother to upgrade except iOS starts pushing you to download and install an upgrade. If Apple is going to aggressively push people to upgrade, then it needs to work cleanly as an upgrade.
 
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Valkyre said:
My 6s is also perfomning beautifuly with ios11. It certainly feels smoother than ios10 in every sence except so minir lag when engaging in 3D touch features. The removal of 3d touch multitask is a crime but I was happy to read a few hours ago that it will eventually return in a future ios11 update.

All in all i am mighty impressed. I have been running since beta 1 and the gm is just wonderful. This phone doesnt feel 2 years old i swear! I am a huge performance and framerate sensitive guy and i want everything to feel smooth and snappy and ios 11 truly feels even better than ios 10. To give an example scrolling through my messages in ios 10 was laggy but in ios 11 its buttery smooth.

Frankly i dont get all the negative talk about it, not that i am trying to say people dont know what they are talking about, but i have been using ios in beta for like 1 and half month and i really have a very good experience. Phone feels fresh.

All i need is 3d touch multitask... and i am set.
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Where did you readit will return?
 
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Pretty much he said they didn’t include it because of having to meet a deadline. Include it later rather than releasing iOS 11 when it is finished.
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Yep. I never got to grips with gesture, but it seems there are plenty of people who'll be happy to see it back, so I'm happy for them.
 
I never do clean installs and iOS 11 is really nice and fluent on my 6S with the animations overall feeling faster than on 10.3.3. My battery life is also better, although I think that 10.3 and later had a negative impact on my phones battery life.
 
Overall I'm happy with iOS 11 on my 6s. I did a clean DFU install via iTunes.

The only tiny thing I've noticed is that sub-menus within Settings seem to hang sometimes. Battery life was poor too for the first day and a half, but seems to be alright again now.

It certainly seems to be smoother and quicker than iOS 10 (apart from the sub-menus thing, but that's a minor irritation).
 
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You forget though that Everytime you upgrade over old versions, that stuff gets left behind old cruft ect.... I'm not sure why folks are so against doing clean installs and would rather sit around and grip about how the new os is crap and not working right like there old version.
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This is really well-written. Thanks!
 
it was fine up until a few days ago, i am on the public tester GM. I'm not sure what's going on but it's degraded over the past few days. it's stuttering a lot more for some odd reason. performance on the PB's were fine after PB7, but now it's degraded.
 
No problems in terms of performance.
The loss of 3D Touch multitasking is really annoying.
Battery life has been absolutely ruined. I don't know if there's been an issue with my update or what but at 1pm today after my usual routine I was in the gym where I'd maybe have 70% and it was done at 20% then switched itself off. I'm really hoping this is a one off, I've spoken to Apple Support who ran a diagnostic and the battery was in excellent condition.
 
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It's a bit of a buggy mess on my end, some issues with laggy performance and notifications that are blank and freeze. Battery life is worse, that is usually the case for any new iOS release until the maintenance release comes out.

The best feature I found is in the app management. It will now show when you last used an app and you can delete without deleting the data. That's nice for those on the lower storage devices.
 
Right now iOS 11 on iPhone 6S is just like running iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s... Which means that App crash, Camera Load takes forever is now acceptable at this moment.. Because iOS 11 is the 3rd major update and it's been 2 years since 6s was released... of course it will NEVER BE AS FAST like it did on iOS 9... iOS 10 made 6S still fast but iOS 11 made it worst.
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EugW said:
It's not my iPhone but I put iOS 11 GM Candidate on my wife's 6s. Seems fine to me. While there may be a very occasional stutter, overall performance is fine. I could use it as my daily driver. As for my 7 Plus, it seems totally fine. No increased stuttering or lag. The feel of iOS 11 on the 7 Plus is excellent.

Put it this way: iOS 11 on the 6s is noticeably better than the 6 on iOS 10. This is likely due to the doubled RAM in the 6s. I am very happy I skipped the 6.
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I think iPhone 6S on iOS 11 is slightly slower than iPhone 5/5S in iOS 10.. Unless YOu are talking about iPhone 6 on iOS 11 vs 6S due to doubled ram 6S will perform better... iPhone 5/5S camera loading is only 0.5 seconds.. while my 6S camera loading on iOS 11 takes 1.5 Seconds unlike in iOS 10
 
I'm mostly happy with the upgrade to IOS-11 on my 6S. When I first completed the install, I definitely noticed some glitchy behavior and some lagging, but I have no issue today. So I don't know if its because the phone finally settled down after all the initial indexing, etc. or perhaps the updates now to 11.0.3 helped or maybe both. I will also add that my wife has an iPhone 6 (not 6s) and she is quite frustrated with the lagging. Her biggest complaint is there seems to be a lag with the keyboard when texting. So I do wonder if the difference in hardware from the 6 to the 6S is significant. Of course my experience is purely anecdotal but worth noting. I'm going to try a clean wipe and install on her phone next to see if that helps.

Two new features with IOS-11 that has made it very worthwhile for me: 1) Switching to airplane mode does not turn off bluetooth now. So that way if you are sitting on a plane while listening to bluetooth headphone or AirPods and need to switch to airplane mode, it does not disconnect them. With iOS-10 I had to disconnect, turn bluetooth back on and reconnect. Not a big deal, but I really like not having to do that anymore. Now my bluetooth headphones stay connected without playback interruption when switching to airplane mode. 2) My contacts with Outlook 2016 have not synced properly for several years. I can't remember which IOS version it first got broken with, but it has been very frustrating. I had huge problems with duplicate contacts, contacts created in Outlook not transferring to my phone and vise versa, and contact photos never synced. All that has been fixed with IOS-11. All my contacts including contact photos sync quickly and correctly. I'm very happy about that.
 
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