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iOS 9 beta 2 performance and battery thread!
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I don't get how people can say they're now getting 20 hours of usage its been out for like 4 hours...!? Does it say that somewhere in the phone? A
Seems they are saying that in jest to basically imply that it's essentially impossible to really say if there are any actual improvements or what those are in such a short time.
You might be missing the joke.
Haven't downloaded yet, so can't say what battery life is like. Although I was one of the few not really having an issue on beta 1.
In regard to "OMG, another thread", it's fairly simple to skip over the ones that don't interest you.
they were joking, top 3 ios jokes to me around here are:
1. safari is snappier
2. battery life anything 5 mins after release
3. ios is indexing stuff is the answer for everything (somewhat related to #2)
Thank you Taylor or something is Swifter is pointlessly challenging number 1 there these days.
Wait.. so.. iOS indexing ISN'T the answer?
EDIT: Taylor has just written me an open letter explaining in fact iOS indexing is still the answer.
The phone is definitely not heating up any longer. It must be done indexing. And Safari is snappier so it's probably been cleaned up to run more efficiently and cooler. Awesome all around!
That's strange. It seems like most people are experiencing much better battery life at this stage of the game with beta 2. Unless they changed something about the indexing process for beta 2, the bad battery life in beta 1 almost certainly had very little to do with indexing.
I am seeing outstanding battery like on my 6 plus. Still at 99% after about 3 hours. Seems crazy.
Still a lot of work to be done with iOS 9 and I'm not saying that in a surprised way...it's to be expected with a beta. iOS 8.3 and 8.4 are way smoother than 9.0...here's to hoping 9.0 can pick it up on the performance side. Battery seems fixed for the most part. I'm seeing lag and dropped frames all over the place on an iPhone 6.
Back to 8.3 for now. Probably gonna wait till the public beta.
Back to 8.3 for now. Probably gonna wait till the public beta.
I'm surprised its that bad still, even at beta 2. I have ran every iOS beta since iOS 2 and up until this point iOS 8 betas were the worse...that is until iOS 9 beta 1. Kinda surprised, they must be rushing the releases or something.
So far so good on my plus with heavy usage... at this rate in beta 1 my battery would've needed a few charges.
night and day difference
just in standby my phone still has its charge of around 90%
would have died hours ago on beta 1
just in standby my phone still has its charge of around 90%
would have died hours ago on beta 1
I surfed macrumors forum for 30 mins. On beta 1 that would have cost me 5-7% of my battery life and sanity.
But on beta 2 it's only eating up 2%. So I would say it's close to iOS 8 standard again. But could be better especially when they claim iOS 9 will release up to an additional 1 hour of usage compared to iOS 8.
But on beta 2 it's only eating up 2%. So I would say it's close to iOS 8 standard again. But could be better especially when they claim iOS 9 will release up to an additional 1 hour of usage compared to iOS 8.
Quick impressions from before and after.
iPhone 6 - Too soon to tell if battery life. Overall performance and stability is much more consistent then B1.
iPad Air 2 - Performance was great in B1 and in my brief time tinkering with B2 it seems as stable and fast as B1.
iPad Mini 3 - This is miserable. I did an upgrade instead of a restore and it's substantially worse then the other two.
Before the iPhone 6 and the iPad Mini 3 were about the same performance. The iPad Mini 3 took a notable nose dive.
iPhone 6 - Too soon to tell if battery life. Overall performance and stability is much more consistent then B1.
iPad Air 2 - Performance was great in B1 and in my brief time tinkering with B2 it seems as stable and fast as B1.
iPad Mini 3 - This is miserable. I did an upgrade instead of a restore and it's substantially worse then the other two.
Before the iPhone 6 and the iPad Mini 3 were about the same performance. The iPad Mini 3 took a notable nose dive.
That's what amazes me about iOS betas all the time. Performance can vary so wildly among (sometimes same) devices.