iOS 9.2 Beta 3 Bug Fixes, Changes and Performance Adjustments

[scjr]

Spotlight still lags.Control Centre lag still not fixed.Stuttery scrolling in WhatsApp,Facebook,Tapatalk still not fixed

Spotlight super smooth here. Control Center super smooth here. App Switcher super smooth here. Facebook smooth here. I'm so happy, I can't stand it.

 

[scjr]

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.

Bingo.

After this update, I thought maybe the lag gang was going to post things were very good. To my surprise, they are back to the micro stutter, magnifying glass analysis in force.

Tap here, hold down here, flip the phone, touch the left corner of the screen with your left thumb, as you use your right thumb to tap the home button, swipe up, swipe down and then turn around. See it? See it?

Moral of this story and as I said earlier, some folks will never be happy.

 

[omegis83]

I've got a pretty serious bug on 6S Plus...

I noticed my phone gets warm sometimes, with no use. The only app I have enabled background sync is Whatsapp. I don't even have Face Time or iMessage enabled. iCloud photos is disabled, as well as iCloud Drive. Find my iPhone is enabled and that's all. Not even any kind of push is enabled. Though I found that Documents & Sync under mobile data usage in System Services is using tons of data whilst on standby. This is consuming my mobile data plan and I don't know what is causing that, but it only happens on 9.2 (beta 2 and 3).

First I thought that could be the backup restoration I did from my 6 Plus, so I erased my 6S Plus and restarted clean. Still, the problem persists after some hours. Actually I tested this on 2 different 6S Plus and I have the same problem. WiFi assist is off.

I also thought it could be Siri, but "Hey Siri" is off.

I'm going back to 9.1 and I'll stay there until I'm sure this is fixed.

If you find anything unusual with your 6S on 9.2, keep an eye on mobile data usage on System Services/Documents & Sync. If you're using WiFi, you won't notice. Please, report this bug to Apple as it can quickly become critical for many users.

A quick Google search shows this has been an issue since 8.1.1

It could possibly be iCloud causing the issues, at least that's what the Apple discussion forums are discovering. I'd suggest signing out of iCloud on all of your devices if the issue persists on 9.1 and then sign back in to iCloud. It sounds like iCloud is hung up trying to sync to your iPhone so it may not necessarily be a 9.2 issue.

 

[Radon87000]

Bingo.

After this update, I thought maybe the lag gang was going to post things were very good. To my surprise, they are back to the micro stutter, magnifying glass analysis in force.

Tap here, hold down here, flip the phone, touch the left corner of the screen with your left thumb, as you use your right thumb to tap the home button, swipe up, swipe down and then turn around. See it? See it?

Moral of this story and as I said earlier, some folks will never be happy.

You must be blind if you can't notice the scroll stutter on Tapatalk and many other apps

 

[scjr]

You must be blind if you can't notice the scroll stutter on Tapatalk and many other apps

You may want to send feedback to the developers of those apps, but please advise them you're lag detecting magnifying glasses are in full force.

 

[Radon87000]

You may want to send feedback to the developers of those apps, but please advise them you're lag detecting magnifying glasses are in full force.

You are trying too hard to rile me up I only have to bear with this phone till Jan because of my contract

 

[scjr]

You are trying too hard to rile me up I only have to bear with this phone till Jan because of my contract

Because of iOS 9, I can now keep my 6+ until iPhone 7.

 

[Mlrollin91]

Cache cleaning apps, such as Battery doctor no longer work.


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I'll change that.. They still work but not nearly as much junk is removed. I still have a lot of cache leftover on Snapchat and Instagram.

 

[George Waseem]

I loaded b3 on my wife's iPad 4 and the difference is huge!

The App Switcher was very poor on 9.1 and on 9.2 b3 it's so smooth. Spotlight Search is even better, but still needs a tiny bit of work. Overall impressions are, this is one heck of an update for iPad 4!

I have an iPad 4 too! iOS 9.2 needs more work, but it's amazing in terms of performance, spotlight has dramatically improved, app switcher needs more work but it's indeed better that the one with iOS 9.1. I hope apple makes an option to get the old app switcher. But till then, the OS is perfect, i hope could fix nearly all issues with the final beta or 9.3. It feels good when suddenly I change my mind about getting a new iPad.

 

[ZEEN0j]

I actually like the fast scrolling app switcher. I don't agree that the fluidity is lost. It's just fast and most of all less input delay compared to 9.1. But if they changed it back it wouldn't bother me. As long as it's fluid and no input delay.

 

[mconk]

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???

Sounds like you have Reduce Motion on. The App Switcher switches to a card by card slide with RM on.

 

[mconk]

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)

I agree 100% with this. Very noticeable changes at least for me as well on an iPhone 6. 9.3b feels much much MUCH better than 9.0GM or 9.1 - battery life especially has jumped up!

 

[mconk]

This is still in place

1. Create a playlist in itunes
2. On device make it available offline
3. All tracks will download
4. Remove a track from the playlist
5. Track stays offline on device, but it should be removed

Interesting you brought this up. I have an iPhone 6 that currently has no SIM, so no service. Also not subbed to Apple Music, and have no offline songs. Under Usage>Music it's empty. For some reason still, any purchased songs I'm able to play with WiFi off, and no cellular service. iTunes doesn't show the songs synced to the device, and they're not showing up in Music as 'Offline' or under the Usage section. It's only a handful of songs...specifically those free Starbucks downloads as an example, and a few songs off of various artists I've downloaded in the past. Bizarre.

 

[sbailey4]

Holy ****.I just tried opening Control centre in Siri and it was god awful.Ran at 10 fps by the looks of it

what pray tell are you looking to accomplish by doing that? Just curious. Seems that CC should not even be an option while in Siri.

 

[amg949]

Under phone -> recent calls

If you click on the "i" next to a contact, assume he has multiple numbers, does it highlight the last number he used to call you in blue ?

 

[sbailey4]

Spotlight still lags.Control Centre lag still not fixed.Stuttery scrolling in WhatsApp,Facebook,Tapatalk still not fixed

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.

I believe RebornProphet is correct. Certain apps have has scrolling issues "lag" from time to time even prior to iOS9. GasBuddy is a prime example. It was jerky as all get out in one version while scrolling and they released a fix that specifically addressed that particular issue.

Try scrolling back to the homescreen. It's weird.

This seems to be a feature so you can get back to home screen fast. Typically you are scrolling left to get to a particular app when you launch multitask and this allows you to get back to home really fast. Could me an oversight but also could be a feature they are toying with.

 

[canesalato]

external keyboard support is still awful and ridden with bugs. I think this is worse than a few frame drops but nobody seems to care. =)
Read John Gruber iPad pro review for a more in depth analysis
http://daringfireball.net/2015/11/the_ipad_pro

 

[Freakonomics101]

Update: Still on beta 3 and I now have the usual cellular signal. Did a restore and reinstalled beta 3. Not sure what happened but it's all good now.

 

[LordQ]

Cache cleaning apps, such as Battery doctor no longer work.


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I'll change that.. They still work but not nearly as much junk is removed. I still have a lot of cache leftover on Snapchat and Instagram.

Did they ever work? I remember using one and nothing happened. (no free space).

 

[Mlrollin91]

Did they ever work? I remember using one and nothing happened. (no free space).

Yes, 9.1 and below they worked quite well. You typically have to run it 3-4 times back to back to get it to fully delete all the junk, but I always run it before creating a manual iTunes or manual iCloud backup to reduce the backup storage. Also, it prevents reinstalling that junk if I had to use the backup.

 

[Luis Mazza]

A quick Google search shows this has been an issue since 8.1.1

It could possibly be iCloud causing the issues, at least that's what the Apple discussion forums are discovering. I'd suggest signing out of iCloud on all of your devices if the issue persists on 9.1 and then sign back in to iCloud. It sounds like iCloud is hung up trying to sync to your iPhone so it may not necessarily be a 9.2 issue.

Thank you so much. That really helped me.

Indeed, 9.1 did consume data after my backup restore from 9.1 itself.

That's obviously an iCloud bug an I do hope Apple fixes this issue, as most people have no idea this trick even exists or that it will not happen again. When people find out, some have reported over 3GB of use and that costs us money.

Apple should have fixed this issue a long time ago... TOP PRIORITY

 

[richard371]

6S here. B3 is a big improvement. Still have the title bar lag after using touchID sometimes. I'm not sure if Apple will ever fix this but the delay is small enough it doesn't cause an issue. All my apps show up in spotlight search now .

 

[Act3]

Bingo.

After this update, I thought maybe the lag gang was going to post things were very good. To my surprise, they are back to the micro stutter, magnifying glass analysis in force.

Tap here, hold down here, flip the phone, touch the left corner of the screen with your left thumb, as you use your right thumb to tap the home button, swipe up, swipe down and then turn around. See it? See it?

Moral of this story and as I said earlier, some folks will never be happy.

or some folks will be happy with less

Anyway, you make it sound like it is hard to reproduce. It really isnt all you need to do to see stutter is open the split keyboard and scroll this forum.

 

[mconk]

Under phone -> recent calls

If you click on the "i" next to a contact, assume he has multiple numbers, does it highlight the last number he used to call you in blue ?

Yes, same if you tap the i under the details of a message thread. This has been around a while, and quite useful.

 

[vtboyarc]

I've been getting iOS betas since 9.0, and this recent 9.2 Beta 3 is the first time I've commented on these forums about it (I haven't found anything incredibly annoying enough to post about). I have an iPhone 6S Plus. With this recent beta, after one full day with it, I have a huge difference in battery life - in a bad way. Off the charger at 7am, by 10am, I was down to 71%. For reference, I don't spend a lot of time on my phone during the day, and for my nearly 2 months with the 6s so far, I've always had around 60-70% when I get home at the end of the work day. I have not used my phone any differently than I always do. Just my experience with this beta so far. Otherwise, everything is fast and fluid, and an overall great experience.

Edit: I keep location services off except for a handful of apps, mail is on fetch every 30 minutes, and reduce motion is on, and reduce transparency is on.