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saudor

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Hey guys.. does anyone know if 9.2 improves performance to some degree? 9.1 (final) unlike the betas seem to be slower on both my devices (ipad4, 5s) Did a restore on both of them and seems to be the same. Battery life is meh but tolerable.

Above all, trying to unlock my 5s tends to activate siri - is anyone experiencing this too? Thanks!
 

George Waseem

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Hey guys.. does anyone know if 9.2 improves performance to some degree? 9.1 (final) unlike the betas seem to be slower on both my devices (ipad4, 5s) Did a restore on both of them and seems to be the same. Battery life is meh but tolerable.

Above all, trying to unlock my 5s tends to activate siri - is anyone experiencing this too? Thanks!

I have the exact same devices and believe me, I suffered a lot with both of these devices but now the performance is definitely good, my iPad 4 was extremely bad with iOS 8, got a little better with iOS 9, 9.1. It feels amazing now with 9.2, Over 75% of lag is totally gone. The app switcher is feeling much better, in 90 % of cases it doesn't lag at all. My iPhone 5s was amazing with 8.4 got much worse with 9 and 9.1, I didn't try 9.2, I downgraded to the last version of iOS 8 (8.4.1) which performs good but has a lot of battery drain bugs that Just ruin the experience, I've watched some videos on 9.2 and it looks pretty good to me, still not better at performance compared to 8.4.1 but much closer. I hope the battery issues are gone. I have to take care not to use the phone for much time so I wouldn't charge it 2 times daily. iOS 9.1 was just engineered so bad that it was actually a single beta. iOS 9.2 is somehow great as apple has really done a good job with it, they took the perfect time for some details to fix them and prevent lags and bugs. I also think apple is just preparing something big as the beta 5 didn't still come out and it's actually been 2 weeks since iOS 9.2 b4 came out. Wait for 9.2 to come out and believe me it's not even comparable to 9.1. I hope my reply has somehow helped you :)
 
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