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iOS 9.1 Beta 4 Changes, Fixes & Bugs
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I'm experiencing this, even when using headphones! It's so frustrating... At least my headphones have a play/pause button I can hit (and I've got an Apple Watch, so that works too). It took me a while last night to figure out why my music kept quitting on me when I was doing dishes in the kitchen... I've had similar issues with AirPlay from YouTube in the past; I'd have to keep the touching the screen to keep it from auto locking.
Device: iPhone 6S
OS: iOS 9.1 Beta 4 (Public Profile)
Yes to one of your points, the artist information is missing on mine too. Quite annoying.
This is happening to me as well, both on my iPhone 6s Plus and iPad Air 2. And FYI they're both on 9.0.2. Strange.
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That issue has been around since at least iOS 8.4 days. Supposedly something on Apple's side (as in App Store server side of things).
Okay, my issues with 9.1 Beta 4 and 9.0.2, as is makes almost no difference. The only thing that is fixed in 9.1 is Recent Calls (Phone.app) scrolling animation, it's smooth again.
iPhone 6
• Stuttering Control Center
• Stuttering scrolling in apps (Twitter, Tapatalk etc.)
• Stuttering Spotlight search (swipe down)
• Somewhat low FPS scrolling between homescreens
• Occasionally low FPS in multitasking menu, when switching between apps
• Restrictions on Apple Music, iTunes etc, that disable explicit content will turn on automatically whenever they want. For example: after reboot, after changing App Store account or just after few hours.
iPad Air (in addition to issues listed above)
• Some apps are worse on 9.1 than 9.0.2
• Multitasking switcher is absolutely awful, I am getting less than 30FPS while scrolling, switching apps
• When you're in Safari and you tap on address bar to type an address, keyboard sometimes just jumps from nowhere to the screen (missing animation) or is very choppy
• Overall experience feels unresponsive.
Though, I can say that finger gestures are much easier to trigger.
I have tried setting up as new both devices, numerous times. Updating from 9.0.2 to 9.1, restoring from backup. Thus, I figured that this isn't my device's fault. The problem is with Metal. I have an older iPhone 5 and there is not a single issue that I have listed above.
iPhone 6
• Stuttering Control Center
• Stuttering scrolling in apps (Twitter, Tapatalk etc.)
• Stuttering Spotlight search (swipe down)
• Somewhat low FPS scrolling between homescreens
• Occasionally low FPS in multitasking menu, when switching between apps
• Restrictions on Apple Music, iTunes etc, that disable explicit content will turn on automatically whenever they want. For example: after reboot, after changing App Store account or just after few hours.
iPad Air (in addition to issues listed above)
• Some apps are worse on 9.1 than 9.0.2
• Multitasking switcher is absolutely awful, I am getting less than 30FPS while scrolling, switching apps
• When you're in Safari and you tap on address bar to type an address, keyboard sometimes just jumps from nowhere to the screen (missing animation) or is very choppy
• Overall experience feels unresponsive.
Though, I can say that finger gestures are much easier to trigger.
I have tried setting up as new both devices, numerous times. Updating from 9.0.2 to 9.1, restoring from backup. Thus, I figured that this isn't my device's fault. The problem is with Metal. I have an older iPhone 5 and there is not a single issue that I have listed above.
people who tell you to restore are full of ****. Its a software bug that cant be fixed until apple fixes it. Hopefully in the next beta (Beta 5) they will address the animations. Even their newest feature, 3D Touch has framedrops.
It depends on the issues. Some can't be fixed, some just might be, depending on what's being observed and to what degree.
Wow you can tap 3-5 times in 1/2 a second? Man you are FAST! They will probably have to add telepathy to the next version of iOS so it can read your mind and open the next app you are thinking about.
I don't get it. I don't notice any issues like this on my iPhone 6, with the exception that pulling down spotlight can be a little choppy (even on the iPhone 6s - it appears to be particularly poorly optimized). I've always considered myself fairly sensitive to poor performance, but iOS 9.0.2 runs great on my iPhone 6; I really have no complaints.
Either there is for some reason a huge difference in performance across what should be identical hardware, or some people are incredibly sensitive to the tiniest drop below 60 fps.
I would love to see some videos shot at 60 fps of all the slow performance areas people are complaining about, so we can try to get an objective assessment of what's going on.
here is a 60 FPS video of someone who claims there is no lag and says everything is smooth.
SPOILER ALERT: Its a lagfest
wow. calm down.
has anyone else encountered the message in the screenshoy above? it's strange because it doesn't do it for all my videos. also i'm downloading originals not optimizing.
I don't spend time digging around for anecdotal videos that won't prove anything to anyone anyway. This isn't something that's going to change anyone's mind. The reality is that people have different experiences, and those that believe that that's not the case, and it's all either one extreme or the other extreme don't want to face the simple reality, and no amount of videos will change that for them as they will find whatever it is that they want in those videos to support their point (even though whether or not they find something it still doesn't mean that it applies to everyone or even most anyway).
If you want something that comes closer to a somewhat more objective take on it (even though there still isn't a fully objective take that would apply to everyone anyway) based on a more thorough and general overview of it all, http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/09/ios-9-thoroughly-reviewed/ should do a fairly good job.
To be fair, that looks like it was iOS 9.1 beta 1, as the video was uploaded on September 10th. Also, since the iPad mini he was using didn't have Touch ID, it could have very well been the 1st gen (the one that came out in 2012) which basically had identical specs to the iPad 2. He didn't specify.
EDIT: Yep, looks like he was using the 1st gen iPad mini, as he pointed out that there was no new Spotlight screen. This was one of the features that was cut from iOS 9 in A5 devices.
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Well either way it's irrelevant. They always stop signing the old software when a new version is out.
I find it funny that the guy says stuff like "I'm not seeing any lag, it's very fluid" and I can see stuttering in almost everything he touches. I think that people who claim there is no lag, just aren't sensitive to it so they completely over look it.
Also, did you know that some people can't even see screen tearing in video games when v-sync is off? I find that remarkable because I can see even the slightest hint of screen tearing when it occurs. It really bothers me, but some people are blind to it. It's amazing how different humans can be.