Yeah and in the betas so far this doesn't work also. When pinching you now need to wait again for the animation to finish. I really hope they don't forget it.
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General iOS 9 Beta 5 battery and performance thread!
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Yeah and in the betas so far this doesn't work also. When pinching you now need to wait again for the animation to finish. I really hope they don't forget it.
Fell asleep listening to the Podcasts app last night after fully charging my phone. Current battery stats
Usage: 11 hrs 37 mins
Standby: 13 hrs, 6 mins
Battery: 72%
After some texting/browsing/tweeting this morning. Battery life is great for me in Beta 5
Usage: 11 hrs 37 mins
Standby: 13 hrs, 6 mins
Battery: 72%
After some texting/browsing/tweeting this morning. Battery life is great for me in Beta 5
Reading through this thread has been quite depressing. Apple promised noticeably better battery life with iOS9 and yet people are reporting that it's noticeably worse than iOS8. Then we get the typical "but it's only a beta" comments but seriously, why are Apple releasing sub-standard builds when they presumably have better builds in-house from which they tested their battery life results?
iOS8 GM releases have been a buggy mess for almost a year so I don't buy into this 'don't worry, it's only a beta' stuff. A bad beta is worrying, despite what some people say.
Surely Apple should be releasing the very best builds they have to date, otherwise what's the point of the beta program? I guess the worrying angle to this is that this beta *is* the best build of iOS9 they have.
iOS8 GM releases have been a buggy mess for almost a year so I don't buy into this 'don't worry, it's only a beta' stuff. A bad beta is worrying, despite what some people say.
Surely Apple should be releasing the very best builds they have to date, otherwise what's the point of the beta program? I guess the worrying angle to this is that this beta *is* the best build of iOS9 they have.
I believe iOS betas have diagnostics and other things running in the background and this causes more battery life than you'd otherwise see. The unoptimized third party apps also take a toll on the battery.
Battery life should be improved for the GM and even more so once apps update to be more compatible with iOS 9.
If you've backed up the device after you installed iOS 9, this will only work if you archived the iOS 8.x backup before you did a backup of the iOS 9.
Given the persistent issues with the iPhone 5S and the various betas, if I still owned an iPhone 5S I'd be very cautious about upgrading to iOS 9. I think I'd be reading this and other forums to see what others' experiences were, since the window for a retrograde once iOS 9 is officially released will be extremely short. YMMV, of course.
Does anyone have a good iOS9 experience with the rMini 2? I tried a "clean install" (upgraded from a clean install of 8.4.1) and i don't really like it so far. I am a bit sensible to lag and stuttering and the performance of iOS 9 beta 5 (3/4) has been underwhelming on my rMini 2. I had high hopes, that my iPad could be closer again to the 7.1 performance again, which wasn't completely great, but good enough with tolerable fps drops. All iOS 8 iteration have been slightly or way worse. It looks like iOS 9 won't be better.
Ram management has finally been improved. But the responsiveness is awkward in many areas. The new App Switcher, Spotlight and Control Center animations are lagging. App starts are sometimes delayed. Safari doesn't feel very fast. Especially scrolling, keyboard typing, closing last tab in landscape have performance issues. My sideloaded open source adblocker has improved loading times, but the browsing experience isn't great. I know Apple could still sort this out with the final release, but i have the suspicion this could be 8.0 GM - 8.2 all over again. Really not what i was hoping for.
Ram management has finally been improved. But the responsiveness is awkward in many areas. The new App Switcher, Spotlight and Control Center animations are lagging. App starts are sometimes delayed. Safari doesn't feel very fast. Especially scrolling, keyboard typing, closing last tab in landscape have performance issues. My sideloaded open source adblocker has improved loading times, but the browsing experience isn't great. I know Apple could still sort this out with the final release, but i have the suspicion this could be 8.0 GM - 8.2 all over again. Really not what i was hoping for.
People say this every year. Face it, battery life isn't going to improve
Apple specifically pointed it out as one of the big features of iOS 9. It'll be a much bigger and more public screw up on their part of they don't deliver.
I don't remember Apple mentioning battery improvements in their keynotes before.
With every iOS beta I've used, the GM/Official release always has better battery life than the beta builds.
So what's with 'high power mode' draining more than iOS8? That isn't quite what people had in mind whilst listening to the Keynote...
You said earlier that low power mode is where the battery life improvements are. Lots of people are saying that in standard/high power mode their battery life is worse than with iOS8.
i did. in regular mode its the same, at least for me any MANY others..as always its only a few with the "problems" (yes its still in beta i get it), that make all the noise, every time about everything..
I have tried using the most recent beta twice, and it overheated my device to unacceptable proportions, and the battery would tick down like a countdown clock, and it's too bad because I really enjoy iOS 9.
Curious how many people are seeing numbers closer to something like that vs some ways off from that.
