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iOS 12 - speed and battery life
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So... full report.
As noted, battery life stats are different. This has made it hard for me to do a comparison but subjectively, battery life seems about the same as iOS 11 for both my X and 6+. Not seeing an extra hour or anything like that.
Performance-wise, X is more responsive to gestures and is now on par with my Android phone (finally), which is good. iPhone 6+ still has home button delay that's measurable using a high speed camera. I think Apple doesn't bother because they anticipate their future phones to have no home button. Performance-wise, 6+ is a bit smoother in animations, but app loading is not any faster, likely due to meager amount of RAM. X actually seems to open up the Facebook app quite a bit faster now after a clean install of the OS.
Certain apps are still crashing for me upon launch and on both phones so I guess those are the apps and much less the OS.
Overall, not bad. Surprisingly usable as a daily driver. No major deal breaker yet.
Then again, the notification situation is still horrible. I no longer have to scroll down a lot to see something but clearing all notifications is still quite a chore. iOS 10 with the old notification drawer did this a billion times better than the weird behavior introduced since iOS 11.
As noted, battery life stats are different. This has made it hard for me to do a comparison but subjectively, battery life seems about the same as iOS 11 for both my X and 6+. Not seeing an extra hour or anything like that.
Performance-wise, X is more responsive to gestures and is now on par with my Android phone (finally), which is good. iPhone 6+ still has home button delay that's measurable using a high speed camera. I think Apple doesn't bother because they anticipate their future phones to have no home button. Performance-wise, 6+ is a bit smoother in animations, but app loading is not any faster, likely due to meager amount of RAM. X actually seems to open up the Facebook app quite a bit faster now after a clean install of the OS.
Certain apps are still crashing for me upon launch and on both phones so I guess those are the apps and much less the OS.
Overall, not bad. Surprisingly usable as a daily driver. No major deal breaker yet.
Then again, the notification situation is still horrible. I no longer have to scroll down a lot to see something but clearing all notifications is still quite a chore. iOS 10 with the old notification drawer did this a billion times better than the weird behavior introduced since iOS 11.
So how can they announce those stats about how much faster (%-wise) apps will open w/iOS 12, etc., if those improvements aren’t necessarily observable in Beta 1? What are they basing those metrics on? Betas that haven’t been released yet?
I got out my old iPhone 6+ to test out the performance increases and they’re very real. This phone could honestly be still used as a daily driver it’s performing so well. Don’t get me wrong, some apps are still slow to load (Reddit, Messenger), but everything feels much more responsive and slick. It’s crazy how good the performance is on a first beta.
Seems exactly the same so far.
My take on iOS 12 is it’s not much of an upgrade and not much has changed so not many things will break if you install the beta.
Actually some behaviors in beta 2 seem faster than beta 1 like when you click on a contacts info in messages. In beta 1 there was a slight delay.
Performance for me on beta 2 took a nosedive. My battery shows running at peak performance but I wonder if it’s not and it’s bugged saying it is.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/8739555
Compared to this
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/8559694
EDIT: Nope throttled and not bugged, my CPU clock is 1849MHz like the rest of the previous results.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/8739555
Compared to this
https://browser.geekbench.com/v4/cpu/8559694
EDIT: Nope throttled and not bugged, my CPU clock is 1849MHz like the rest of the previous results.
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It's a TSMC 6S. 11.4.1 to 12b1 was a wash.
[doublepost=1529512693][/doublepost]Nevermind, I am an idiot. I had low power mode enabled
There is no decline in CPU performance. No increase either.
iOS 12.0b2 2541 4434
iOS 12.0b1 2527 4417
iOS 11.4.1 2539 4401
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Beta 2 feels faster to me. At least for some tasks. That’s likely just software optimizations. Working with the personalized Animoji and sharing location via iMessage both feels faster.
As for battery after 5 hours I’m down to 76%. I’ll continue to watch it and try to compare with my posts about beta 1.
As for battery after 5 hours I’m down to 76%. I’ll continue to watch it and try to compare with my posts about beta 1.
You think it’s going the same as beta 1? And hard to compare to iOS 11 cause the way it’s measured in iOS 12?
24.5 hours on beta 2 and I was down to 1% battery before charging.
So similar to beta 1 that I could wait 24 hours before charging but I think with beta 1 I was at 10%.
One thing that’s weird is in the battery screen if I go to the 24 hour view the measure of screen on and screen off is definitely wrong. Screen off is way too low. If I. Go into the 24 hour view screen off seems more reasonable.
I’ll post a screenshot soon.
So similar to beta 1 that I could wait 24 hours before charging but I think with beta 1 I was at 10%.
One thing that’s weird is in the battery screen if I go to the 24 hour view the measure of screen on and screen off is definitely wrong. Screen off is way too low. If I. Go into the 24 hour view screen off seems more reasonable.
I’ll post a screenshot soon.
To me this is weird. In the 24 hour view it says 2 hr 51 min hours on screen and 37 minutes offscreen. The Numbers seems pretty low. I used my phone average or above average all day.
When I go to the 10 days view and click on the same day it says 4 hrs 3 min on screen and 3hr 28 min off screen. That seems more reasonable as an estimate if my usage. Why is the 24 hour view so far off?
When I go to the 10 days view and click on the same day it says 4 hrs 3 min on screen and 3hr 28 min off screen. That seems more reasonable as an estimate if my usage. Why is the 24 hour view so far off?
Also if I go to ScreenTime it shows that I used my phone for 4 hr 19 min yesterday which is more in line with the 10 day battery screen than the 24 hour battery screen but not exactly the same.
To avoid that I unplugged my phone one morning at 7:30 am and let it run u til 7:30 the next morning with no charges in between. In that 24 hour period the 24 hour stats STILL looked off.