I have updated it successfully. I have an iPad mini at hand.
Overall performance is just OK, but it is not so awesome as we might wish.
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iOS 9.0 Beta 1 Bug Fixes and Changes
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Overall performance is just OK, but it is not so awesome as we might wish.
Sorry to use this way for expressing.
Overall performance is OK, but just OK. Still laggy in some circumstances. For example, if you drag down in home screen to pop up spotlight search, you will need to wait more than 1s to start typing because keyboard does not show up in time.
App switch is a little bit laggy, but fine.
I didn't test it much. I just updated this firmware minutes ago.
Strangely enough, switching between Samantha and Siri Female did produce different voices when using Siri. Samantha seemed more clear and fluid when using Siri.
So its slower than iOS 8??
A bit of a let down if that is the end result given they were apparently optimising especially for A5 devices (and they've chosen yet again to keep the Mini 1 and Touch 5 around for longer)
We cannot simply confirm this because this is still a beta software. it also slows down iPhone 6 plus as well a little bit, to some extent. Looks like the only device can run iOS 9 flawlessly is iPad air 2.
Apple may do some further optimisation for old devices.
And A5 devices will not support more new features than A6 devices, I guess.
No share button for Mail.
I mean, you still cannot share your mail to other apps.
great find! finally on screen time! i know its been on android for like...ever but I'm finally glad its on iOS
What if the app icon is a magazine or newspaper front page? Could you post a screenshot?
Video playing on a little floating window over other apps or the home screen.
I am sorry but I have already updated all my iOS 8 devices to iOS 9. However, you can see the screenshot from Apple site in here.
http://www.apple.com/au/ios/
The newsstand app icon is at the right side of iTunes store icon. That app is the one deleted from iOS 9.
Not sure if those apps will be categorised as something else in the future.
When you check notification centre widgets, there are two traffic conditions widgets. If you click either one of them, springboard will crash, and restore.
Smart List artwork on iOS 9 has been fixed! Now it will show random 4 artworks in artwork area rather than an ugly gear icon. If you have less than 3 different artworks of your songs, you will see the first one on your playlist item. Unfortunately, this should update all across the music app, but current beta does not, except you restart music app.
However, you still can only see a gear icon in playlists list.
Handoff feature seems not fully available in this beta, and it may not work properly.
Smart List artwork on iOS 9 has been fixed! Now it will show random 4 artworks in artwork area rather than an ugly gear icon. If you have less than 3 different artworks of your songs, you will see the first one on your playlist item. Unfortunately, this should update all across the music app, but current beta does not, except you restart music app.
However, you still can only see a gear icon in playlists list.
Handoff feature seems not fully available in this beta, and it may not work properly.
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It's still a beta, it has a lot of crappy logs that will not make it to the final version. It's completely normal to have worse battery life on the early betas.
It does. In the 20% low power prompt, there is a button to enter low power mode.
I am going to restore it back to 8.4 tomorrow. The battery is horrible and my wifi keeps on dropping
I agree. You would better revert back to iOS 8.4 beta. As least that beta software works fine. Battery issue is intolerable.
Sorry to call you out on this, but this is pre-release software, a beta, and a beta 1 to top it all off. There is no way one can make this conclusion and be confident about it while saying it.
Now, if we come to September/October and the performance is still similarly lackluster...feel free to flame me back. But this is totally unwarranted IMHO.
The battery life usually takes a couple days to stabilize, especially when iOS 9 now has an expanded index to build for Siri/Spotlight. It takes several hours to finish the index from what I've seen.