To be fair the topic includes both performance and battery. And for battery it will usually take at least a day or a few to get a decent reading on its overall average span.
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iOS 9 beta 4 performance and battery thread!
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Battery not so great for me. Had to charge my iPad twice today. Oh well, not a biggie. But snappy seems much safarier, so I'll stay.
Did you try to Reset All Settings? My Air 2 is getting much better battery life than on beta 3.
Battery life is most definitely worst than B3, did not do much but checked Safari , played music , FB and What's up and usually by 5 in the afternoon I was at 65% with B3 , today I'm at 22% , yikes! Time to find a plug!!
Gotta say that after almost a day I've had terrible battery life at one point I was loosing 1% every couple of minutes. so bit the bullet and erased my iPhone and restored it using the IPSW for beta 4 through iTunes finished setting everything up again and the battery life has been exceptional. 2 hours in and its still @ 100%. Only downside is I had to reinstall all my apps and restore my Apple watch 
There was an update to FB Messenger pushed yesterday which seems to have fixed my battery issues. 2h 50mins standby and 40mins usage and I have 97% battery.
Update again - battery life on Air 2 got poor even with all the usual suspects turned off. Battery life is way off both 8.4 and PB1 both idle and in use. Reset all settings with no improvement. Probably going back to 8.4 today. Should have stayed with PB1, which was very good.
iPad Air 2:
Usage: 5 hours 56 minutes
Standby: 73 hours 19 minutes
Battery: 82%
Seems pretty good to me. Those 5 hours were mostly Netflix/light browsing and a bit of youtube.
Did Low Power Mode not make it over to the iPad? I can't see a way to enable it in settings
Usage: 5 hours 56 minutes
Standby: 73 hours 19 minutes
Battery: 82%
Seems pretty good to me. Those 5 hours were mostly Netflix/light browsing and a bit of youtube.
Did Low Power Mode not make it over to the iPad? I can't see a way to enable it in settings
iPhone 5S from full to 1%:
Usage: 3hrs 17mins
Standby: 5hrs 10mins
So basically having to charge at least a couple of times a day right now.
Usage: 3hrs 17mins
Standby: 5hrs 10mins
So basically having to charge at least a couple of times a day right now.
Yes, I did a hard reset of the Air 2 and battery is much better now.
It seems some people like me were having issues with updates over existing installations. No app was being obviously accused of being responsible, so probably that is related with iOS 9 kernel or something like that.
I think the deal is: if you have battery problems with b4, then the best to do is restart from scratch with zero backup restoration.
My iPhone 6 Plus is doing great and I did update it like the Air 2. I guess the multitasking's big changes are the suspects to blame on the iPad. It seems apps are running on the background when they should be frozen much faster as well.
I'm getting good battery life on my 6 but performance isn't great at all for me. This beta is definitely one of the worst for performance. Stuttering animations and delayed app launch.
I gotta wonder if people who always see slow performance and whatnot are people who have a ton of installed apps, a bunch of extra 3rd party widgets and leaving every single app open in the app switcher.
I have not to many apps installed (26 and that includes all stock Apple apps), zero extra widgets from 3rd party, and keep my app switcher to only Safari, mail and messages (everything else typically gets closed fully because they aren't used often enough)
I have never seen bad performance on either my 5 or 6 in iOS 8 and 9
I have not to many apps installed (26 and that includes all stock Apple apps), zero extra widgets from 3rd party, and keep my app switcher to only Safari, mail and messages (everything else typically gets closed fully because they aren't used often enough)
I have never seen bad performance on either my 5 or 6 in iOS 8 and 9
Does leaving apps open really make an impact on performance? I thought this was disproved a long time ago. The issue is that it's a beta build, so performance will vary build by build.
The way I think of it is like any computer. The more apps you have and the more you're running will always give you a performance hit. (I've heard of people who have 300 apps on their phone. That's just overboard.) Take an older 2008 iMac will bog down after X amount of apps you leave running and don't fully close (command + q) a newer 2015 model will bog down eventually but will take more stuff running than the 2008.
It's not just beta though. Performance seems to be all over the place even in official releases of any update.
Third party apps make a massive difference it seems. Ive had amazing battery life from PB 1 & 2, but the minute I install Google Plus, my phone gets hotter than a furnace and loses nearly 2% battery per minute. Twitter may also be an offender, but I haven't been able to confirm that yet. They, & hangouts were the only 3 apps I installed before the last restore, and the sheer rapidity of the battery drain back then was inhuman.
Installed G+ today and suddenly the symptoms returned, then I delete it and reboot, and the phone is cool within minutes and battery back to normal.
Newer had to close apps on iOS if they're not stuck. iOS freezes apps from app switcher which are not used after certain time. No need to close apps. Only thing you get is to load apps more often from the slower flash drive and then unload. iOS and OS X have awesome memory management.
I all honesty your not using your phone much, not even an hr of web surfing no phone calls or FaceTime and 2 mins of video, most of your battery was for music so I'd expect that kind of usage.
I see no point to leaving apps in the switcher of you only use like once a day, every couple days or even once a week. I get that it uses more battery if you open and close that app often enough. But I'm sure there is a breakpoint of how long an app sits in the switcher vs closing that negates gains of leaving it in. Also some people see apps using ridiculous background usage in battery even when not used in a while, so I don't think things get fully "suspended" after X time.
I personally only leave safari, mail and messages in the switcher permanently because all three get used every day and many time throughout the day. Not once have I ever seen performance issues when lots of people claim there is (Especially in iOS 8)
More things running will always equal performance hit. Doesn't matter how efficient ram is. It doesn't just effect ram. It's CPU as well. (Which most of the performance comes from)