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iPhone 6 Plus lag is real
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Wow. Good job, man. Everything is back to 60fps on my i6+ on 9.1b after this setting [especially in pull down search, multitasking]. That pretty obviously shows the transparency affect is a detriment to 6+ performance (not necessarily the 6, since less pixels being pushed). Hope Apple is working on this.
EDIT: It sure does look ugly as hell though.
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My 6 Plus on 9.1 is a step backwards from 8.4.
Surprisingly even my iPad air 2 is not as smooth. I can understand the Plus because imo its been under powered since it launched. But the Air 2? Maybe apple will fix this in 9.2, or the final 9.1.
Surprisingly even my iPad air 2 is not as smooth. I can understand the Plus because imo its been under powered since it launched. But the Air 2? Maybe apple will fix this in 9.2, or the final 9.1.
Air 2 is fine besides the split second lag when opening an app. Thats also present in the air 2.
Wow can't believe I missed this when tweaking settings on my 5s. I had on Reduce Motion which I think just makes it 'feel' faster but has no real effect, but this above really does speed up the OS and honestly I prefer the look of the Dock, Notification Center, etc. without transparency.
I also use my rMBP 15" with reduce transparency on with OS X 10.10 and it definitely helped with all of the UI animations.
I upgrade all my devices to iOS 9.Wives iPhone 6 works great, Air 2 works great and my 6 Plus laggy as hell (clean install with all devices). I have a bad feeling about future with 6 plus (as lag free, great working device). Ohh Apple Apple..
The weather app was god awful and suffered ridiculous amount of stuttering/lag. How is that even remotely related to OCD, when the experience was subpar and unacceptable?
If you don't mind the fact that things aren't in 60 fps, then that's fine, but your opinon on the matter is simply based on what you deem acceptable. Others have just as much of a right to complain about something that doesn't live up to the fluid/smooth experience Apple wants to portray.
The cold hard truth is Apple was a miser and deliberately released under specced devices (6 and 6+)
6+ is a tremendously underpowered phone. Even if Steve Jobs sat along with God for a coding marathon to optimize it, they will still not succeed in making it run smooth at 60fps everywhere.
A lesson for us to do some slight research before buying anything blindly even if it is manufactured by Apple.
In fact, I am double, triple careful if I am buying an Apple product for 2-3 years long term use. (My learning lesson: cough iPad 3 cough)
Last year I got 2 Air 2's and even today that purchase is relevant. When it comes to phones, I am always on the S cycle.
6+ is a tremendously underpowered phone. Even if Steve Jobs sat along with God for a coding marathon to optimize it, they will still not succeed in making it run smooth at 60fps everywhere.
A lesson for us to do some slight research before buying anything blindly even if it is manufactured by Apple.
In fact, I am double, triple careful if I am buying an Apple product for 2-3 years long term use. (My learning lesson: cough iPad 3 cough)
Last year I got 2 Air 2's and even today that purchase is relevant. When it comes to phones, I am always on the S cycle.
How is your Air 2 purchase irrelevant? It's still crazy fast and supports split view.
I would not say closing an app is split second on my Plus, more like the app implodes into the screen before it finally closes. It is quite bearable but it is noticeable.
On android, one can turn off animations and that implode effect goes away. Enabling Reducing transparency to "on" for 6 Plus does not really translate to a split second closure.
On android, one can turn off animations and that implode effect goes away. Enabling Reducing transparency to "on" for 6 Plus does not really translate to a split second closure.
9.0 feels slower that 8.x.x, so far I'm pretty disappointed. Maybe after a couple of point updates, but I thought this was supposed to be an under the hood performance update. My Air 2 doesn't see it that way at all...
Underpowered as they may be (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus) I'm sure us early adopters will be the same early adopters for the the iPhone 7 next year...vengeance will be ours!!!
Ha.
Ha.I would not say tremendously underpowered, millions own a Plus and with its specs it is pretty impressive imho. Not like folks were returning it and could not wait to get rid of their Plus.
LMAO I never said irrelevant. I said relevant. Read my original reply.
I would still say tremendously underpowered because it stuttered during it's release year itself. From there onwards, it's a downward spiral with each iOS update.
Lag or no lag, iOS 9 is running pretty good on my device...
For what it's worth, I have little to no lag on my 6+....and I do not have Reduce Transparency turned on
For what it's worth, I have little to no lag on my 6+....and I do not have Reduce Transparency turned on
Underpowered as they may be (iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus) I'm sure us early adopters will be the same early adopters for the the iPhone 7 next year...vengeance will be ours!!!
Why do you or other people keep claiming the iPhone 6/6plus is underpowered? They beat, or at least equaled any other phone on the market.
The HTC One M8 and M9 are smooth as butter and fast as lightning everywhere. Just saying.
The 6+ is a dud. From day one and the o/s it shipped with there were problems and a new version of iOS is never, ever going to make an iPhone perform *better* than it did with the o/s it came with.
I think more accurately they are saying underpowered relative to the software they are running.
If you look at this objectively the 6 outperforms the 6+. And the 6 on iOS 8.4.1 outperforms the 6 on iOS 9 (at least according to side by side comparisons). So where does that leave the 6+?
Without looking outside of Apples ecosystem there is a valid argument in saying its underpowered.
BTW I'm just an outside observer, I don't own either device.
Guys, do you think it could be linked to something like iCloud? I wonder if the people with smooth devices (no lag) are not using iCloud and maybe using Google or some other service?
Whenever I restore (even a clean restore) I enter my iCloud information. That's the only difference for me. It could explain why some devices see improvements and others degrade.
Whenever I restore (even a clean restore) I enter my iCloud information. That's the only difference for me. It could explain why some devices see improvements and others degrade.
I've looked at iOS9 on a number of different phones here at University. iPhone 5 and 6 seem the same as iOS 8, all the 6 pluses I've looked at have noticeable GUI performance issues, particularly with the App switcher. ALL 6 pluses I looked at have IDENTICAL performance issues.
Edit: Because I felt a bit mean.
Edit: Because I felt a bit mean.
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Some people will defend Apple to the end of the earth. I love Apple, but I am man enough to admit and complain when they do me wrong. I just don't wanna sit back and put up with it while trying to lie to people saying that it's the greatest thing ever when it's not.