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iOS 9.2 Beta 3 Bug Fixes, Changes and Performance Adjustments
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I love my 6 plus again.
Seriously though, ever since 9.2 beta my 6 Plus has been running so smoothly I couldn't believe my eyes at first. A few days ago I was able to get a replacement phone running iOS 8.4.1 that people talk so much about, which made me super hesitant to restore. But after comparing it with iOS 9.2 beta running 6 Plus, I realized it's about the same... sometimes iOS 9.2 beta was faster!!?
Haven't found any issues myself yet, but I'm pretty bad at spotting those... Sometimes I just dismiss them and later find out they're actually bugs that got fixed.
Oh yeah, editing in just to mention that it's still not perfectly smooth. For example as many pointed out, scrolling in music shows stutters. But HUGE improvements in app switcher which was my main concern, so I'm fine with this.
Seriously though, ever since 9.2 beta my 6 Plus has been running so smoothly I couldn't believe my eyes at first. A few days ago I was able to get a replacement phone running iOS 8.4.1 that people talk so much about, which made me super hesitant to restore. But after comparing it with iOS 9.2 beta running 6 Plus, I realized it's about the same... sometimes iOS 9.2 beta was faster!!?
Haven't found any issues myself yet, but I'm pretty bad at spotting those... Sometimes I just dismiss them and later find out they're actually bugs that got fixed.
Oh yeah, editing in just to mention that it's still not perfectly smooth. For example as many pointed out, scrolling in music shows stutters. But HUGE improvements in app switcher which was my main concern, so I'm fine with this.
Spotlight still lags.Control Centre lag still not fixed.Stuttery scrolling in WhatsApp,Facebook,Tapatalk still not fixedAccording to @RebornProphet, his iPhone 6 is running great. My 6+ is running silky smooth.
No idea how, it's noticeably smoother than beta 2 and compared to 9.0 and 9.1 it's night and day.
I get the feeling you're never going to be happy regardless. As I've said, I posted a lot about lag on the 6 on 9.0 and 9.1 and have pointed out areas where performance could be improved in 9.2. I am OCD when it comes to iOS lag, my friends actually think it's funny, but I take it seriously.
If I can instantly notice and more importantly FEEL improvements, then trust me ... they are there.
Spotlight lags the first time you activate it, as it has always done since iOS 7. After that it's noticeably smoother. And there is no scrolling lag either. The scrolling stutter you see is down to the apps, not the OS.
iPhone 6s Plus is almost lag free too. I am still able to replicate the Control Center lag ONLY when it is pulled up over Siri. Also the lag in Landscape mode for 3D Touch is 50/50 now. Everything is WAYYYY smoother in this beta and I feel like the next one or two betas will be the GM candidate, tomorrow will be a full day with the beta while I am out so I will do extensive testing.
We'll be happy when it returns to iOS 8 level. Let's leave the feelings out for now and stick to our eyes.
As I said, I am OCD when it comes to iOS smoothness. 9.2 beta 3 is a huge improvement over beta 2 and a quantum leap over 9.0 and 9.1.
Where I notice it most is how it feels under the finger tips, it's smoother and more responsive. And as I said to the other guy, yes Spotlight does stutter when you first activate it (as it has since iOS 7) but after then it's so much smoother than it was on its predecessors.
As for iOS 8 levels of smoothness, we're 99% there on iPad Air 2 and pretty much there on the iPhone 6. There will be some people who have set themselves into such a mindset and placed iOS 8.4.1 on such a ridiculously high pedestal that iOS 9 is never going to match it.
It's like nostalgia with old classic video games, they become so built up in our minds as being so great but when you go back and ever relive them, the reality kicks in. iOS 8.4.1 was very smooth, but it too had its areas of lag and stutter on the devices it was "intended to run on". iOS 9.2 is shaping up to be a fantastic release.
You have completely forgotten 8.4.1.Use the app switcher,control centre and Spotlight drag down on it and then tell me with a straight face that 9 is smoother
The app switchers are totally different there is no point in comparing their smoothness.
You can't activate Spotlight while the App Switcher is on screen, same goes for Control Centre. Spotlight is far smoother AFTER the initial first activation (swipe down) which has been the case since iOS 7 on all devices. From then on its noticeably smoother. Swipingin and out of Spotlight after that first time of activating it is smoother.
You're one of these people looking for lag by locking the OS up in a convoluted series of tasks. Open this, rotate here, double tap home, rotate again, enter Spotlight, look lag! Even iOS 8.4.1 would lock up if you done a series of tasks which aren't done in every day use.
And the App Switcher on iOS 9.2 is now as smooth as the one on iOS 8 was, as in there is no lag now. Not when scrolling not when tapping an app preview, not when it zooms in full screen. There are some who will never actually accept iOS 9 no matter how obvious the improvements over 9.0 and 9.1 are.
Every beta for me has been an improvement in animations, battery life and opening of apps. Making IOS smoother. Even the Developer Beta for Mac OS X 10.11.2 El Capitan is the same (always getting better in new betas)
And why not ? It's an APP SWITCHER. They didn't remove it or alter its initialization. We can compare them both function and performance wise.
Just as you can compare the recent apps menu change in Android 5.x vs 4.x. If the new one lagged, people would be upset.
The App Switcher is a bit weird in beta 3 (guess it was implemented in beta 2), but it scrolls way to fast. If I want to reach an app which is let's say 4 apps to the right I almost every time scroll past it, where on iOS 9.1 this wasn't a problem?
They didn't even fix a minor bug that on Air 2 when you open the App Store and the wish list in it and then switch to homescreen through app switcher there is terrible lag
That's weird, ever since b2 for me the app switcher has been slower than usual. No matter how hard I scroll to the side it's set so that apps switch over one by one and it doesn't scroll fast at all anymore???
That's not an isolated incident. The software appears to struggle to render multiple layers for whatever reason. The same frame drops happen if you are in the Amazon app with the 'shop by department' list open and navigate to home screen via app switcher.