iOS 9.1 Beta 5 Changes, Fixes & Bugs

[dcp10]

In summary; some folks say iOS 9 lags, some say it doesn't. A third group says so what if it does

Is there really a point to any more posts on this subject, ? Really?

Future proofing this thread for any additional betas or the GM

Some folks say it's fixed, some say it's not.

Mods- time to shut this down.

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[XTheLancerX]

That's pathetic.. I'd be complaining now stop, see the problem is there aren't enough people that see this as a problem, my wife thought iOS 9 was fine, when it was doing nothing but lagging I don't understand it, it drives me nuts. But unless Apple hears this from enough of us they will ignore it, as they have done since iOS 8

I know!! I hate being mean to people when they say there aren't any issues, but there ARE. There's no way their particular device works different than mine, especially when I JUST did a complete DFU set up as new install, and I see the exact issues on all my friends devices and even the display units in all stores. They either have reduce motion and/or reduce transparency enabled or just don't perceive lag too easily. I wish I couldn't see any issues because it's awful and it ruins my experience!

 

[XTheLancerX]

You missed or purposely ignored one key word he said. "since"

Nah, I didn't miss the word. iOS 6>iOS 7.1.2>iOS 8.4.1>iOS 9.x.x so far in terms of smoothness. Since iOS 6, iOS 7.1.2 was the smoothest, but it still wasn't as good as iOS 6.

 

[blassley]

I know!! I hate being mean to people when they say there aren't any issues, but there ARE. There's no way their particular device works different than mine, especially when I JUST did a complete DFU set up as new install, and I see the exact issues on all my friends devices and even the display units in all stores. They either have reduce motion and/or reduce transparency enabled or just don't perceive lag too easily. I wish I couldn't see any issues because it's awful and it ruins my experience!

Agreed sir! Sometimes I wish I was "dumb" when it comes to these kind of things, guess I wasn't born "lucky" haha

 

[Act3]

So is there a list on what this beta fixed or accomplished?

 

[toughnut]

Installed iOS 6 on my 6S Plus and it flies. Damn you Apple.

 

[atlchamp]

Are you being sarcastic? If not, you either are blind or you are blatantly lying. I don't remember the frame rate dropping at all when using the app switcher or while opening or closing apps or scrolling or ANYTHING on iOS 6. That all happens now, on every device. That's the reality of things.

Blatantly lying?? Dude relax. No frame rate drops at all

 

[blassley]

Installed iOS 6 on my 6S Plus and it flies. Damn you Apple.

When?

 

[XTheLancerX]

Agreed sir! Sometimes I wish I was "dumb" when it comes to these kind of things, guess I wasn't born "lucky" haha

I wouldn't say dumb, because that will feel demeaning. They simply just don't see it, and there isn't anything wrong with it. They're just the lucky ones lol.

So is there a list on what this beta fixed or accomplished?

Pretty much, very little to nothing was accomplished in this update, as far as I can tell. Opening apps is slightly better in my experience. Not perfect still, however.

Sorry this has gotten off topic. This "UI smoothness" crap just can't ever fully get out of my system. It's just so frustrating watching the newest tech struggle over the stupidest things they should not be struggling with.

 

[CupertinoSlave]

I wouldn't say dumb, because that will feel demeaning. They simply just don't see it, and there isn't anything wrong with it. They're just the lucky ones lol.

Pretty much, very little to nothing was accomplished in this update, as far as I can tell. Opening apps is slightly better in my experience. Not perfect still, however.

Sorry this has gotten off topic. This "UI smoothness" crap just can't ever fully get out of my system. It's just so frustrating watching the newest tech struggle over the stupidest things they should not be struggling with.

Its such a simple thing for Apple to fix and its been going on since the betas of iOS 9.0. Cant they just use the code they used in iOS 8/7 for animations?

 

[blassley]

Its such a simple thing for Apple to fix and its been going on since the betas of iOS 9.0. Cant they just use the code they used in iOS 8/7 for animations?

The problem is they rebuilt iOS 9 from the bottom, different code, and different UI's so in short , this would not be the case :/

 

[eicca]

iPhone 5 here. Beta 5 performs slightly better than beta 4, which was my favorite of all the 9.1s so far. The final release ought to be real good.

 

[C DM]

I know!! I hate being mean to people when they say there aren't any issues, but there ARE. There's no way their particular device works different than mine, especially when I JUST did a complete DFU set up as new install, and I see the exact issues on all my friends devices and even the display units in all stores. They either have reduce motion and/or reduce transparency enabled or just don't perceive lag too easily. I wish I couldn't see any issues because it's awful and it ruins my experience!

Well, if a few frame drops in a few places ruins the experience for someone, well, there's not much to say about that aside from that's very unfortunate.

 

[VSMacOne]

Beta 5 so far is the most solid for me on 6sPlus. No lag, no latency no nothing. Just fast. Will see how the battery does over the next couple of days but overall it's great.

Also, the Settings.app in multitasking view is not blank anymore. Check the attached screenshot.

 

[XTheLancerX]

Well, if a few frame drops in a few places ruins the experience for someone, well, there's not much to say about that aside from that's very unfortunate.

It's not just a couple 1 frame hiccups though, it's entire interactions that are carried out at a sustained 40FPS or so or less. On my iPad and iPhone, Control center is on one end of the spectrum as not that bad, but really annoying (40-50FPS) but on my iPad, the App Switcher is on the exact opposite side of the spectrum, consistently carried out at like 15-20FPS when opening or closing the switcher. Scrolling consistently stutters, and swiping away apps is consistently ~30FPS if there are blurred apps in the background.

 

[Luis Mazza]

Bunch of whiners. Lag here, lag there. It seems you have no real bugs to talk about, then you just whine, squeal and scream about lag. Throw your device away or uninstall the huge amount of garbage you have and get a life!

 

[rmadera]

Bunch of whiners. Lag here, lag there. It seems you have no real bugs to talk about, then you just whine, squeal and scream about lag. Throw your device away or uninstall the huge amount of garbage you have and get a life!

And here's another one! Ding ding ding!
Have you not been following the thread? Lag is a real bug. Just because you don't perceive it as one doesn't mean it isn't one. And "uninstalling"? This isn't OS X. Deleting apps doesn't do anything to help performance on iOS. People like you are precisely why Apple hasn't bothered to fix these issues. As customers who support Apple by buying their products, we at least have the right to talk about issues that we're having in the hopes that they'll eventually fix them.

 

[XTheLancerX]

Bunch of whiners. Lag here, lag there. It seems you have no real bugs to talk about, then you just whine, squeal and scream about lag. Throw your device away or uninstall the huge amount of garbage you have and get a life!

Well who wants a quality experience from a device they spent an arm and a leg for anyway? Let's all just accept garbage software that runs worse than many low end android devices.

By the way, I have like 15 apps on my phone, about 40 pictures, no music, no movies from iTunes. It definitely isn't lagging because of having too much stuff. Which I don't think happens much with flash storage devices anyway but I may be wrong. Roughly same amount of stuff on my iPad that I whine even more about, so.

 

[rmadera]

Well who wants a quality experience from a device they spent an arm and a leg for anyway? Let's all just accept garbage software that runs worse than many low end android devices.

By the way, I have like 15 apps on my phone, about 40 pictures, no music, no movies from iTunes. It definitely isn't lagging because of having too much stuff. Which I don't think happens much with flash storage devices anyway but I may be wrong.

You're not wrong. It doesn't happen on iOS, especially with the way it handles background processes and apps in general.

 

[PurrBall]

Beta 5 so far is the most solid for me on 6sPlus. No lag, no latency no nothing. Just fast. Will see how the battery does over the next couple of days but overall it's great.

Also, the Settings.app in multitasking view is not blank anymore. Check the attached screenshot. View attachment 592129

Well then in that case it must have been fixed in 9.0.2.

 

[theyearof84]

Well then in that case it must have been fixed in 9.0.2.

Lol.

 

[sbailey4]

Are you being sarcastic? If not, you either are blind or you are blatantly lying. I don't remember the frame rate dropping at all when using the app switcher or while opening or closing apps or scrolling or ANYTHING on iOS 6. That all happens now, on every device. That's the reality of things.

But you had the leather stitching and green felt! Times change. Now you have blur and transparency and it works a little different. No issues here either on iP6. Getting better and better.

 

[Luis Mazza]

And here's another one! Ding ding ding!
Have you not been following the thread? Lag is a real bug. Just because you don't perceive it as one doesn't mean it isn't one. And "uninstalling"? This isn't OS X. Deleting apps doesn't do anything to help performance on iOS. People like you are precisely why Apple hasn't bothered to fix these issues. As customers who support Apple by buying their products, we at least have the right to talk about issues that we're having in the hopes that they'll eventually fix them.

Well who wants a quality experience from a device they spent an arm and a leg for anyway? Let's all just accept garbage software that runs worse than many low end android devices.

By the way, I have like 15 apps on my phone, about 40 pictures, no music, no movies from iTunes. It definitely isn't lagging because of having too much stuff. Which I don't think happens much with flash storage devices anyway but I may be wrong. Roughly same amount of stuff on my iPad that I whine even more about, so.

Quality experience is a system reboot.
And yes, uninstalling crappy notifications and having an excessive number of apps in the background does affect performance.
You believe in unicorns as well.

 

[rmadera]

Quality experience is a system reboot.
And yes, uninstalling crappy notifications and having an excessive number of apps in the background does affect performance.
You believe in unicorns as well.

Uninstalling notifications? What the heck are you talking about? "Having apps in the background" doesn't affect performance. iOS handles background tasks intelligently precisely so that running apps can't affect performance in any material way.

 

[Luis Mazza]

Uninstalling notifications? What the heck are you talking about? "Having apps in the background" doesn't affect performance. iOS handles background tasks intelligently precisely so that running apps can't affect performance in any material way.

It's magic!