So turns out iOS 9 is actually laggy

[John6Plus]

The reason I'm updating to the 6s plus from the 6 plus, is just for a lag free experience.

If it has the lag people are reporting on iOS 9, I'm returning it and keeping my 6 plus on 8.4.

I just hope the extra ram and spec in the 6s solve the lag problem.

Word of warning, when I upgraded to the 6+ from a 5s I expected a lot of the iOS 7/8 induced lag to go away. It did not, but a point release relieved it greatly (can't remember which one). It was similar to what I saw right after updating to 9, but it was worse in 9 (but now gone, AFAICT).

 

[C DM]

Everyone's iPhone 6 Plus has stutters in the same places throughout the OS. I'll post a video later. I'd also like to see people who claim their 6 Plus (or another idevice) runs perfectly smoothly upload a short video as well.

Everyone might have some minor things here or there (which might very well not affect most people all that much), but some people have bigger issues that others do not. Simple reality.

 

[AppleRobert]

The reason I'm updating to the 6s plus from the 6 plus, is just for a lag free experience.

If it has the lag people are reporting on iOS 9, I'm returning it and keeping my 6 plus on 8.4.

I just hope the extra ram and spec in the 6s solve the lag problem.

I understand the benefits of going to the 6s Plus but my current 6 Plus is running well. The biggest issue I have is I cannot go to the 6 or 6s because the display is too small and my vision with that resolution doesn't cut it even if it is the smoother smartphone out of the two which the jury will always be out on regardless.

So I'll live with my current Plus. I'm not going to spend extra money on the new one when I really don't care for the overall size of the Plus to begin with. Hello Apple, we need a tweener.

Some folks need to see an android smartphone, I had plenty. They are getting better and better as far as the OS and smoothness but try playing a game like Leo's Fortune. My 6 Plus kills all the android smartphones I ever played that game on. Smooth city and maneuvering a 5th grader would have no problem with.

 

[ama0219]

My 6 Plus is running just fine no lag on ios9 as is my iPad mini 3. I'm happy with it.

 

[Slicktype]

It is incredibly laggy for me. I should have at least waited for 9.1

 

[zorinlynx]

I have heard people say that resetting all settings can vastly improve performance.

I'd give that a try.

 

[Tamagotchi]

Everyone moaning about lagging straight after updating there phone.....
it's indexing and putting everything right for spotlight.

Damn, then my GM has been indexing for a whole week! My betas were indexing for 2 months!

Yes, that's definitely the reason.

 

[Infrared]

Damn, then my GM has been indexing for a whole week! My betas were indexing for 2 months!

Yes, that's definitely the reason.

You can turn off various spotlight options. Would that help?

 

[Kung]

I must be one of the lucky ones then. Granted, I did a clean install on my phone and turned off various options (Hey Siri, moving backgrounds, etc.) but other than the occasional stutter, it's been VERY lag-free. Even the Beta was fairly decent.

 

[utahman130]

My 6 plus lags during scrolling in tweetbot, tumblr, swarm, Facebook

 

[Shakespearo]

Even though some Apple fans swore it wasn't.

Going to try a fresh install now to see if its any less laggy on my iPhone 6.

Getting the iPad 1 form iOS 4.3 to iOS 5 vibe. Not as unusable but pretty damn annoying.

Useable? Yes

Does it feel like a blazing fast and modern OS on an iPhone that was just released a year ago? Nope.

Seems like iOS 9 was made for the newest iPhones/iPads which is disappointing because in the past, it took about 2 cycles before devices would seen noticeable slowness.

I have a 64GB iPhone 6 Plus that was doing much better when it had 0GB storage on iOS8, it didn't even flinch.

After updating to iOS9, I can't even try to go into multitasking view by double pressing on the Home button without a serious lag. Since the moment I upgraded my phone's software 2 days ago, I'm feeling like I have an iPhone 4 with iOS9 and not a less than a year old iPhone 6 Plus.

Apple must do something quickly!

 

[Prabas]

From /r/Apple

This reminded me a conversation I saw on the Apple Dev Forums. A developer was asking why Apple stops seeding beta versions of iOS, about a month or two before they release to the public. The answer, from one of their engineers, was very sobering:

"The real situation is this- for June and July, Apple develops their next major release via two forks- the beta fork and the secret fork. The secret fork includes support for the unreleased hardware. The last few secrets have been Siri for iOS 5, 4" support for iOS 6, Touch ID support for iOS 7, and large screen support for iOS 8. Now come August, Apple must begin the work of integrating the secret fork into the beta fork to create one release build. From the start of the integration until the iPhone September event, Apple is unable to release betas without disclosing secrets. For that reason, there are never any betas during that time. This takes about a month- 34 days for iOS 5, 37 days for iOS 6, 26 days for iOS 7, and 36 days for iOS 8. Therefore, you will not see anymore betas until the September event.

Does this approach have a cost? Absolutely. By stopping all seeding for a month, Apple does not allow sufficient testing of the release and near-release builds. This is why there are pretty much always battery life, WiFi, and performance problems when iOS goes public in late September that eventually get fixed towards Christmas. However, secrecy is absolutely essential to Apple's marketing strategy and must be maintained, even if quality suffers. That's just the way it is."

 

[yanki01]

I think it's now more annoying that I've realized how quick I was able to maneuver through iOS 8 on my iP6 compared to iOS 9. hopefully it's fixed soon.

 

[songer121]

I guess im one of the ppl thats getting shafted because my 64GB iphone 6 plus is suffering BAD!!

When i updated to 9 i even did a full restore after updating with itunes and then set my phone up as new. I thought thats what the point of the betas was, was to get bugs like this out of it?!

this sucks...

 

[sunking101]

From /r/Apple

So why don't Apple just have a battalion of in-house testers? Most of these iOS problems are immediately obvious so it just beggars belief that nobody spots them.

 

[sunking101]

 

[dk001]

I noticed horrendous lag for roughly the first 24 hours. Just when doing normal stuff - switching apps, scrolling in any app, launching an app. I was, shall we say, disappointed. Well I kind of forgot about it until I spotted this thread. I realized that I think it's stopped.

Given the new Siri/Search/Spotlight I wonder if it was doing serious indexing (probably covered this before, didn't read much of the thread). I have a 128GB 6+. If I see it flare up again I'll try to figure out if there's a pattern.

I wonder if it's related to face searching in photos? I have a 10,000+ photo library, which is largely... maybe partially tagged with faces. But I could do Siri searches like, "Show me pictures of John in Colorado from 2012" and it responded remarkably quickly.

Does this hold true though if you have these things serious trimmed down or turned off? If that is still yes one would have to ask; why?

 

[Beefburga]

I'm currently running with the iPhone 6 128gb, updated to iOS 9 using OTA.

When first updated the multitasking screen lagged and most apps that were on when I updated just showed a blank screen so I exited out of them all and did a hard reset.

After that it's been smooth, fluent and fast.

Opened all apps that I normally use on a regular basis and still all felt zippy and instant.

Having a play through last night and today I've had no issues with freezes, lag or any other problems. (Small issue with Tweetbot and the keyboard colour being black for a split second then going back to normal)

So far I'm happy with iOS 9 but must admit I did have a moment of regret when first accessing the multitasking.

 

[Cmoya]

Yep. Often when returning to home screen, it takes a moment for swipe to work again- almost like the zoom out animation hasn't finished. Many animations seem a bit sputtery... not smooth like it was before the update. It's not a huge problem, but it's definately noticeable after so many years of getting used to iOS being so aesthetically pleasing and smooth. A bit disappointed here. iPhone 6 here. No background services on.

 

[John6Plus]

Update: After waking the phone, there is sometimes a stutter on whatever the first thing I try to do is - close an app, task switch, scroll, whatever. It's hardy noticeable and tbh I'm not sure it's any worse than iOS 8 was; that was far from perfect itself.

Really I think it shows the iPhone 6(+) should've had 2GB like the 6S does. Just guessing.

Battery life is fine, btw

 

[sbailey4]

Damn, then my GM has been indexing for a whole week! My betas were indexing for 2 months!

Yes, that's definitely the reason.

Hows that since it only came out Wed? Betas have nothing to do with this thread.

 

[itsJoeClark]

Sorry but you are just wrong. So in my example, anyone whose iPhone running iOS 9 cannot use the WhatsApp app that is made for iOS8 and earlier and not supported officially on iOS9 their device is defective? I guess we can just agree to disagree.

No, I'm not wrong. If you put two exact iOS devices running the same software, they should run the same apps more or less identically.

 

[Stanick]

Apple stole lag from android? Those bastards.

 

[itsJoeClark]

You seem extremely threatened by the idea that other people might have different opinions or experiences. You blow in here yesterday and sling things at everything that displeases you and everyone who disagrees with you. Those of us who are so inadequate that we can't realize that you're right humbly apologize. And your ad hominem crack about vocabulary is a mystery. If you want a venue for rants, you might consider setting up a blog, rather than signing up for discussion fora.

I'm not threatened. I'm frustrated with Apple apologists that appear to claim that Apple can do no wrong.

You're damn right I'm going to go ad hominem when you accuse me of calling people handicapped. Deal with it.

You're being so, so melodramatic.

I accept your apology by the way.

 

[C DM]

No, I'm not wrong. If you put two exact iOS devices running the same software, they should run the same apps more or less identically.

In theory, yes, in practice, not always the case.