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iOS 9.1 Performance and Battery Thread!
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Updated all of our devices, a 6s, 5s, 2 iPad 4's. The 6s and one iPad was on beta program. The update from beta is even better than the beta they all run great. The 6s is faster more fluid and the 5s has never ran so well. The iPads are also great. So far great update for me.
All good here on iP6. Seems even better than beta 5. Still has the strange visual from/to overlap in the DND scheduled time but otherwise seems even more responsive and all working very well. Too soon for battery info but no obvious drop from beta 5. Pleased with the update so far.
Just run Geekbench on mine: 9.1 is slightly lower than 9.0.2, but scores are still within range of what Samsung A9 chip is getting:
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/3917496?baseline=3896913
http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/compare/3917496?baseline=3896913
Not sure I am putting much merit on geekbench. My phone definitely feels more responsive and fluid over the beta 5 but the geekbench scores are actually lower????? hmmmm
I've been seeing this 3D touch lag since launch day. It's more of a hesitation and stutter. It only happens after waking the phone up from sleep. Once I'm using the phone, any new 3D touch actions there is no lag. None of the updates have fixed it for me. When I turn off Siri Suggestions in Spotlight Search, the lag is gone after waking from sleep. Not sure where I read to do that but it works and doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
A couple bugs I was experiencing have appeared to be fixed....
I don't see much of an improvement with UI frame rate and stuttering.
I don't care about it too much anymore. I blame myself for falling for Apples marketing with iOS 9 having better performance. Seriously it's the 9th version and every revision has brought a degradation in performance, if I haven't learn my lesson by now then I can only blame myself.
I don't see much of an improvement with UI frame rate and stuttering.
I don't care about it too much anymore. I blame myself for falling for Apples marketing with iOS 9 having better performance. Seriously it's the 9th version and every revision has brought a degradation in performance, if I haven't learn my lesson by now then I can only blame myself.
Performance is nice, can't tell about the battery as all three devices (6S, 5S and IPad Air 2) seem to have an issue where something on Apples end is burning through the battery faster than it should. (Standby / usage time nearly identical; no apps being used, no background activity). Stops when I sign out of iCloud, which isn't really a solution.
3D Touch is still not fluid @ 60fps..... Seriously.... If you're going to advertise such a feature you'd think they'd put some effort to making it as fluid as possible!
The ARM big.LITTLE "octocore" is just a little more than a marketing term. Yes they do have 8 cores, but they're not all active. Plus, hardly any apps really use multi-processing beyond 2 cores.
Seems not to be a difference in performance/battery other than the obvious bug fixes. Devices still operating "smoothly".
When updating multiple apps (more than 10), iPad mini will become super laggy when running apps. Only the system is running good, but not great.
It's in fact the new cause of problem from the day one release of iOS 9. No previous versions of iOS requires indexing like that.
"Indexing" is a self repeated BS just like clearing Dalvik cache on Android.
I doubt the process should at max take more than 3 hours but it is a proven thing that iOS does after some updates, benchmark results being worse during that period is a dead giveaway.