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iOS 11 performance on 7+ is still crap

Love Divine

Love Divine

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Still extremely disappointed with the performance on my 7 plus. iOS 10 ran like butter. Initially, as soon as I upgraded to 11, I noticed:

- A large drop in performance. Frequent lock-ups (NEVER happened before), restarts (never happened before), slow responsiveness to touch etc. This was an abrupt and huge change
- Speaker phone stopped working
- Control center for music app stopped responding
- Sharp, abrupt drop in battery life

The speaker and control center bugs have been fixed in the latest update, but the slow performance still remains. The phone regularly hangs, lags to touch, and the app switcher frequently becomes molasses. Keyboard lags like crazy, causing me to mistype.

This is unacceptable to the point it's almost pushing me to get a new phone. Anyone else experiencing this?
 
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Yes. My experience on 7 Plus encompasses stuttering here and there, heavy battery drain(halved battery life) and home button delay. The home button delay and battery drain in particular makes me feel like I want throw the phone against a wall that's how it irritates me. This is on 11.2 Beta 4. Sad to say but Apple no longer cares about the 7 Plus. Top tier performance is reserved for the iPhone X and since I was not enjoying my 7 Plus I bought the X. That's the only way.

The 7 Plus will never perform like how it was on iOS 10. That was a one time only. I recommend never upgrading your iPhone each time you buy a new iPhone. Stay on release version because Thats the only iOS optimised for that particular device.
 
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Radon87000 said:
The 7 Plus will never perform like how it was on iOS 10. That was a one time only. I recommend never upgrading your iPhone each time you buy a new iPhone. Stay on release version because Thats the only iOS optimised for that particular device.
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While I can agree with this idea for the most part, to be fair though the 6s originally came with iOS 9... and yet iOS 10.3.3 runs beautifully on it as well :)

I don't plan on updating beyond 10.3.3 unless I feel there is a consensus on the forum of a certain future version of iOS 11 which somehow has just as good performance/battery life. I don't expect this to happen but hey... a guy can dream right? :p
 
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Love Divine said:
Still extremely disappointed with the performance on my 7 plus. iOS 10 ran like butter. Initially, as soon as I upgraded to 11, I noticed:

- A large drop in performance. Frequent lock-ups (NEVER happened before), restarts (never happened before), slow responsiveness to touch etc. This was an abrupt and huge change
- Speaker phone stopped working
- Control center for music app stopped responding
- Sharp, abrupt drop in battery life

The speaker and control center bugs have been fixed in the latest update, but the slow performance still remains. The phone regularly hangs, lags to touch, and the app switcher frequently becomes molasses. Keyboard lags like crazy, causing me to mistype.

This is unacceptable to the point it's almost pushing me to get a new phone. Anyone else experiencing this?
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A lot of that isn't what many have experienced. It sounds like your best bet at this point would to try a clean restore.
 
My 7+ was broken and with hardware defects since day 1 and I cannot exchange it, but I've already said that. Point is, I still have iOS 10 and although I don't care about performance because it always ran extremely poorly, at least battery life is decent and within range of normalcy. Staying in iOS 10 guarantees I still keep the one thing that works correctly.
 
The battery life has been reduced by 30% on iOS 11. I tested my iPhone 7 Plus on macOS using CoconutBattery app and it states that my battery health is still at 100%.

The reduction in battery life can be attributed to bluetooth/wifi radios being continously ON even if we turn them off. Unnecessary bloat of APIs and High CPU usage to cope up with aggressive telemetry and spying hardcoded into iOS 11.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Youtube are the 4 most battery consuming apps out there.

In the name of Metal 2, they have regressed UI performance of older gen iPhones.

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A lot of that isn't what many have experienced. It sounds like your best bet at this point would to try a clean restore.
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LMAO dude.
Do you always have few defensive templates ready to reply to anyone who posts about iPhone performance issues?
 
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d5aqoëp said:
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Youtube are the 4 most battery consuming apps out there.

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Haha this is actually pretty funny for me considering I am a past Windows Phone user. Google, Facebook, Instagram didn't have apps on that platform and I used to use the browser to use them and Windows users used to grumble at the lack of proper apps. Even after buying a $1000 phone seems I still have to resort to this on iOS. Apple should ban all these apps from the store till they come up with a app which doesn't guzzle battery. A day or two will knock some sense into them

I have noticed on Windows Phone that third party apps do a better job than these multi billion companies do and even on iOS in the form of ProTube and Apollo.
 
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Let's all hope 11.3 saves us. Even with 11.2 Beta 4, the battery life and performance issues aren't remotely close to 10.3.3.
 
d5aqoëp said:
The battery life has been reduced by 30% on iOS 11. I tested my iPhone 7 Plus on macOS using CoconutBattery app and it states that my battery health is still at 100%.

The reduction in battery life can be attributed to bluetooth/wifi radios being continously ON even if we turn them off. Unnecessary bloat of APIs and High CPU usage to cope up with aggressive telemetry and spying hardcoded into iOS 11.

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Youtube are the 4 most battery consuming apps out there.

In the name of Metal 2, they have regressed UI performance of older gen iPhones.


LMAO dude.
Do you always have few defensive templates ready to reply to anyone who posts about iPhone performance issues?
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You mean actually suggestting something as opposed to just sitting on a bashing bandwagon not offering anything? Funny how that seems to strike a nerve.
 
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What should I say...iOS 11 is a complete disaster which let‘s me think about an update on my iPhone 6 I didn’t actually plan to do this year. It performed quite well with iOS 10.
 
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What should I say...iOS 11 is a complete disaster which let‘s me think about an update on my iPhone 6 I didn’t actually plan to do this year. It performed quite well with iOS 10.
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Then it’s all going according to their plan. But it’s short-term thinking on their part. What they fail to realise or account for is the longer-term damage to their reputation.

I used to be an instant upgrader, or even earlier now with the public beta program. This used to be a safe bet because Apple had fairly high standards for its software releases. Apple gloats about this confidence in the face of long-trained reluctance from Windows users to do the same.

But now Apple are getting a taste of their own medicine by letting their standards fall off a cliff. You won’t see it so much now, but with iOS 12 more people will be trigger-shy than they have been this year. Apple will probably devise even more forceful strategies to get people to upgrade.

I’m certainly going to avoid new versions of iOS until they’re proven worthy by the community after 3-6 months, or Apple allows downgrades.
 
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You mean actually suggestting something as opposed to just sitting on a bashing bandwagon not offering anything? Funny how that seems to strike a nerve.
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So as usual you didnt even bother to read my reply. I have given reasons as to why the battery life is less. Unlike you, I actually read before commenting and don’t jump on bashing bandwagon without giving explanation as why I say it.

The nerve seems to have struck with you actually LMAO.
 
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So as usual you didnt even bother to read my reply. I have given reasons as to why the battery life is less. Unlike you, I actually read before commenting and don’t jump on bashing bandwagon without giving explanation as why I say it.

The nerve seems to have struck with you actually LMAO.
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And none of that changes what was brought up in my post. That aside, it certainly goes to show how much there's to an argument when it goes down the ad hominem path. Thanks for reaffirming that.
 
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simonmet said:
I’m certainly going to avoid new versions of iOS until they’re proven worthy by the community after 3-6 months, or Apple allows downgrades.
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I have read people mentioning to install TV OS profile on their iPhone or iPad to prevent any updates from showing up. Logically this sounds correct but I will try it for iOS 12.
 
Meh, iOS 11 worked fine on my 7 Plus before I got rid of it- and that was 11.0. Surely it's better now on 11.1. iOS 10.3.3 was far better and should be the performance standard for every version of iOS, but I haven't had major issues with any versions of iOS 11 on either my 7 Plus or 8 Plus.
 
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Same here and it seems like this has been a general census among users. Even when you look at the polls made around here and the posts on reddit. I personally have been having so much trouble with iOS 11.
 
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Here's a recent poll from around here at https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/current-overall-experience-of-ios-11-since-launch.2090163/ What exactly is the general consensus there?
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I'm not sure, it doesn't say much but the "just bad" choice seems to be leading. The comments seems mixed. As of this comment, it's at 25%, but that could change.

Can't wait for the bugs to be ironed out. iOS11 so far is the most buggy iteration of the iOS for me. I've never had issues with iOS since starting with the 4S.

I'm also unable to access my notes since updating. I have to restart my iPhone every two days. I've done clean install. My battery can't last all day, even with LTE off for the majority of the time. This wasn't an issue with iOS 10 or any my previous phones.

Help. :(
 
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I'm not sure, it doesn't say much but the "just bad" choice seems to be leading. The comments seems mixed. As of this comment, it's at 25%, but that could change.

Can't wait for the bugs to be ironed out. iOS11 so far is the most buggy iteration of the iOS for me. I've never had issues with iOS since starting with the 4S.

I'm also unable to access my notes since updating. I have to restart my iPhone every two days. I've done clean install. My battery can't last all day, even with LTE off for the majority of the time. This wasn't an issue with iOS 10 or any my previous phones.

Help. :(
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That's the thing, there isn't much in the way of consensus indicating something all that strong one way or another. And while "just bad" is leading, it's only doing so by one vote and a fraction of a percentage point. At the same time the "good" options combined outweigh the "bad" ones, and "neutral" just fills in the middle.
 
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That's the thing, there isn't much in the way of consensus indicating something all that strong one way or another. And while "just bad" is leading, it's only doing so by one vote and a fraction of a percentage point. At the same time the "good" options combined outweigh the "bad" ones, and "neutral" just fills in the middle.
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Gotchu, my bad. Do u have any idea on how to fix my notes problem?




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