iOS 9.2 (Beta 1) Bug Fixes, Changes and Performance Adjustments

[RebornProphet]

I'm still hopeful that it's just a case of Metal being optimised for us on an OS, although developers have managed to put together some incredible gaming titles using Metal so surely if anyone can harness the power of Metal it should be the people who created it.

The reason for older devices running fine is probably down to Open GL being used as opposed to Metal. Time will tell, but I'd still say that come maturity iOS 9 will be fine on most if not all newer devices ... the issue I have with that is that Apple shouldn't have released it if it wasn't ready, but this is what iOS is now. They spend a year getting the current build to its best then release a new .0 build and we go again.

 

[Radon87000]

Have you tried out 3rd party keyboards like Swype or Swiftkey especially when you do a Spotlight search (swipe down gesture) does it still stutter/lag when showing the actual 3rd party keyboard? I have major lag/stutter with my iPad mini2 since iOS9 and still with 9.1. The lag is less with my 5s but also there.

I gave up on third party keyboards as they are laggy,break the design language of the OS and just don't feel seamless and refined like on Android.

 

[masands]

iPhone 5 running buttery smooth. Sucks to be you iPhone 6 users haha

 

[Baby12]

Have you tried out 3rd party keyboards like Swype or Swiftkey especially when you do a Spotlight search (swipe down gesture) does it still stutter/lag when showing the actual 3rd party keyboard? I have major lag/stutter with my iPad mini2 since iOS9 and still with 9.1. The lag is less with my 5s but also there.

As I sad. Everything works good on 5C and 5 because these devices do not support metal. I don't use 3rd party keyboards so I won't tell you clearly

 

[Baby12]

I'm still hopeful that it's just a case of Metal being optimised for us on an OS, although developers have managed to put together some incredible gaming titles using Metal so surely if anyone can harness the power of Metal it should be the people who created it.

The reason for older devices running fine is probably down to Open GL being used as opposed to Metal. Time will tell, but I'd still say that come maturity iOS 9 will be fine on most if not all newer devices ... the issue I have with that is that Apple shouldn't have released it if it wasn't ready, but this is what iOS is now. They spend a year getting the current build to its best then release a new .0 build and we go again.

Sometimes I play high intense graphics games on 6 and run perfectly great with metal

 

[DCIFRTHS]

iPhone 5 running buttery smooth. Sucks to be you iPhone 6 users haha

How old are you?

 

[arvs47]

The biggest mystery of all indeed.

Did you know why it perform better than 5s and 6 its big fire before the end
Next year ios 10 only supports 5s onwards

 

[Blaster13]

No one is doing that. What people are doing is:

Draw up the Control Center. See the lag. Use the phone. See lag everywhere. If issues were really concentrated to very specific use cases, people wouldn't be complaining so much. Is that really so hard to understand?


No. I made a side-by-side video (iPhone 5 on the left, 5s on the right). You can clearly see that the animation on the 5s simply drops a lot more frames than the 5.

ThTs 9.1 not 9.2

 

[canesalato]

Did you know why it perform better than 5s and 6 its big fire before the end
Next year ios 10 only supports 5s onwards

and how would you know that?

 

[Radon87000]

Did you know why it perform better than 5s and 6 its big fire before the end
Next year ios 10 only supports 5s onwards

I doubt it.Iphone 5 will probably get iOS 10.It will probably be laggy as hell though

 

[Blaster13]

The reason for that would be that most don't notice it. They can't perceive it.

Maybe but I'm pretty good at noticing the slight stutter/lag and I have not as of yet. Not saying it is not there but it's not very noticeable for me at moment

 

[Blaster13]

Another thing I have noticed.....
When people are making these so called lag videos... They are slowly moving things like cc up so very slow but in fact if you just pop it up like its meant to be that will give a fuller picture to people.
I mean who sits there and slowly moves it up or notification tab down. Who slowly move the pages across and stuff. If your going to make a video at least make it exactly like real work use and not slowly do things.

 

[Merkie]

ThTs 9.1 not 9.2

9.2 is no different.

Another thing I have noticed.....
When people are making these so called lag videos... They are slowly moving things like cc up so very slow but in fact if you just pop it up like its meant to be that will give a fuller picture to people.
I mean who sits there and slowly moves it up or notification tab down. Who slowly move the pages across and stuff. If your going to make a video at least make it exactly like real work use and not slowly do things.

My video was a quick flick.

 

[scjr]

Another thing I have noticed.....
When people are making these so called lag videos... They are slowly moving things like cc up so very slow but in fact if you just pop it up like its meant to be that will give a fuller picture to people.
I mean who sits there and slowly moves it up or notification tab down. Who slowly move the pages across and stuff. If your going to make a video at least make it exactly like real work use and not slowly do things.

Exactly.

I believe no matter how much Apple improves iOS 9, someone who's ultra sensitive to fluidity issues will find something they don't like. The OS runs great, other than some animation issues here or there. If the fluidity issues made iPhone unusable, that would be serious. They don't. So at this point, patiently waiting for Apple to fix these issues is all we can do.

 

[curropb]

Can anybody check if these bugs are still present in iOS 9.2?

Smartcover Volume Display iOS 9.1 bug

Unlocking the ipad with the smartcover, the "volume display" is not shown. However, if you turning on your ipad with the on/off button, there is not any issue.

TAPPING INDICATOR KEYBOARD BUG IOS 9.1 (REDUCE TRANSPARENCE ON)

If you "reduce transparence" ON, you don´t see the tapping indicator when you write in a white keyboard. No issues with black keyboard or reduce transparence OFF. This bug is present since ios 8.

 

[Blaster13]

9.2 is no different.
My video was a quick flick.

9.2 may not be on outside but very well could be on the inside so that arguments out the window.

And that video was no way a quick flick clearly see its slow

 

[Radon87000]

Another thing I have noticed.....
When people are making these so called lag videos... They are slowly moving things like cc up so very slow but in fact if you just pop it up like its meant to be that will give a fuller picture to people.
I mean who sits there and slowly moves it up or notification tab down. Who slowly move the pages across and stuff. If your going to make a video at least make it exactly like real work use and not slowly do things.

Simple.Because when I swipe it very fast,the lag may not be that visible but you can see it's dropping tons of frames.In fact anyone who has used a iPhone 6 on 8.4.1 will easily still see lag

 

[philipyoungg]

9.2 may not be on outside but very well could be on the inside so that arguments out the window.

And that video was no way a quick flick clearly see its slow

It's slow motion...

 

[canesalato]

It's slow motion...

 

[Blaster13]

Simple.Because when I swipe it very fast,the lag may not be that visible but you can see it's dropping tons of frames.In fact anyone who has used a iPhone 6 on 8.4.1 will easily still see lag

Exactly so in real terms use......
When you swipe up how it is designed you won't see it simples....

 

[Blaster13]

It's slow motion...

Ok post it properly without being slomo

 

[philipyoungg]

Ok post it properly without being slomo

This is iPad Air on 9.1 beta 4. It's still perform better than 9.1 official, so don't say that it's a beta. As always, change the quality to 720p60 for 60FPS. Similar performance also happens on Mini 2 & 3.

By the way, I want to hypothesize something. What if, metal is already optimized on iOS 9? I just recently read last year article about iOS 8, and they shows demo about metal with performance improvement. By that basis, metal should've optimized (at least, almost mature) and running well on iOS 9.

Is it possible this is not metal issue, but rather 64 bit device use more "resource" on metal compared to 32bit on OpenGL? Just my thought.

 

[Radon87000]

Exactly so in real terms use......
When you swipe up how it is designed you won't see it simples....

Oh really?Turn on reduce motion and transparency,than swipe up the control centre.Turn it off and do the same.The difference is night and day

 

[thiagueirass]

What about the iPad? The new version of iOS fixed the animation lags on spotlight search and multitasking switcher?

 

[scjr]

According to this video, iOS 9.2 is addressing and improving some of the animation issues.

The reviewer does mention he had lag and stutter issues in 9.1. He points out those areas in his review.