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What are the "little things" you hate about iOS 9?
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Yes, this is really frustrating. I want to be able to look at the whole photo. Particularly when trying to decide which photos I like. I'm going to a photography workshop and I wanted to use my iPad to show my photos - but it's just not going to work since this zooming cuts off important parts of the photos.
The only workaround I see is viewing a portrait photo in landscape and vice versa. Really surprised more people don't talk about this, I thought a lot of photogs use iPads as their portfolio viewer. I submitted a comment in beta testing ios9 to no avail. Just add an option in settings!
My minor annoyance, minor as in it would be very easy for Apple to change it, is the fact that engaging low power mode forces the auto-lock timer to 30 seconds and it can't be overridden. I do a lot of ebook reading on my phone and having the screen dim after 22 seconds and switch off 8 seconds later unless I tap it makes low power mode effectively unusable for me. I can imagine it could also be annoying if trying to study a map or read any complex content in an email, web page or similar. Even just pausing for 10 seconds to look away if I recognise someone or think about something else briefly makes it quite likely that the screen will dim on me when I go back to pick up whatever I was doing even if that was a really quick and simple task. 22 seconds of uninterrupted screen interaction time is just not enough.
As soon as I installed 9.0 on my iPhone 5 I engaged low power mode to see how much it would help battery life if I kept it on permanently and to see if my phone would still be usable performance-wise after losing the approximately 30% of CPU performance that low power underclocking takes away according to Geekbench tests. For me performance was still absolutely fine on my iPhone 5, I really didn't notice any difference, so I dread to think how much CPU power is going to be wasted on my 6s when it arrives later today. I would so like to be able to permanently engage low power mode to get maximum battery life but this stupid forced 30 second auto-lock stops that being a workable option for me.
As soon as I installed 9.0 on my iPhone 5 I engaged low power mode to see how much it would help battery life if I kept it on permanently and to see if my phone would still be usable performance-wise after losing the approximately 30% of CPU performance that low power underclocking takes away according to Geekbench tests. For me performance was still absolutely fine on my iPhone 5, I really didn't notice any difference, so I dread to think how much CPU power is going to be wasted on my 6s when it arrives later today. I would so like to be able to permanently engage low power mode to get maximum battery life but this stupid forced 30 second auto-lock stops that being a workable option for me.
I'm finding that I dislike Photos more and more. Apple keeps trying to force everything into/through photos. I hate it. It constantly "corrupts" (converts) my iPhoto libraries, and, makes various dumbed-down decisions for me.
(I'm an amateur, but,) I'm converting everything to LightRoom as I write this. I hate Adobe's charging model, but, I need something that I can control, without Photos assuming that everything looks like an individual/group snapshot.
OBTW, using circles, or, circles with squared sides, around faces I guess is supposed to look quaint or something? As an effect, it gets old quickly.
The delay in responding to some interactions while a transition is happening or right as it completes has been there since iOS 7.
I guess it's more pronounced on iOS 9 cause I don't see it on my iPhone 6 running 8.4.1
Seriously it is a really noticeable difference between the two.
I can close message app and immediately hit safari icon and it registers the tap.
Odd, it's basically the same for me as far as I can tell. Sounds like it might be in the category of some other lag type of issues that seem to be more pronounced than usual for some for some reason.
Maybe. But in iOS 9 I found myself tapping the icons twice after closing another app more often than not to get them to take. Don't have that experience with 8.4.1
thats great, then it isn't "a little thing you hate about ios 9"
We have 3 iphone 6's and 2 air 2's in the house, 1 iphone 6 and 1 air 2 are on 8.4.1, we see it in all the devices using 9 or above
No, the little thing I hate is that System Monitor apps don't have access to per-process information any more.
(That, and, tighter integration with the "Photos" system on the Yosemite.)
Same experience and happening to me with iPhone 5s and iPad Air. I only have a few little gripes with iOS 9 thus far on my devices, and like 9 much better thus far than any 8 version, but this glitch is annoying me... I'm chalking it up to something new in coding with 3D Touch and the lack thereof on my devices. So, over the last few days I've found if I'm more deliberate/longer with my next press/tap the next app will launch right away more times not.
-The lag! Ohh, the lag.. It's awful. The stuttery animations, the little delays all the time, most notably the little delay whenever you tap an app. The animation is also sometimes cut off because it feels like the device is trying to "catch up" with what it missed due to the delay upon tapping the app icon.
-The app switcher. I really don't have a preference for right or left. I just hate how this app switcher is just a hell stew of lag and stutter. It's absolutely atrocious on my iPad mini 2 if I don't have reduce transparency enabled. Even then, I can see small issues and frame drops. It's just horribly optimized and executed, these are trivial animations but they're butchered every time! Also, you can't even scroll past the home screen card (where you are pretty much all the time) without there being stutter. I think part of the issue is near the end of the list of apps, they become slightly transparent for some reason. So the device is dealing with a blurred background, a blurred home screen, and 2 blurred app previews near the end. One of the previews is slightly transparent, but also blurred. You can fully see both blurred previews at the same time in other words, so it's doing twice the work while you're scrolling.
(Notice how you can see clash of clans, notably the large orange attack button in the lower left, through the white of the settings app. This is always occurring, which is causing unnecessary strain. Some instances it's easier to see than others.)
-All of the stutter issues from IOS 7.0 STILL REMAIN ON MY MINI 2.
-The redundancy of having search in 2 places
-You can't easily take the app you have slid over into full screen, it doesn't even appear in the app switcher
-I hate how the app selections for slide over are organized, my most used apps never stay at the bottom of the list, they randomly decide to float away into the very top.
-multitasking gestures on my iPad are sometimes recognized incorrectly. A pinch to close is sometimes repeatedly recognized as a swipe to switch apps.
-iCloud photo library has been extremely wonky since iOS 9.
-The app switcher. I really don't have a preference for right or left. I just hate how this app switcher is just a hell stew of lag and stutter. It's absolutely atrocious on my iPad mini 2 if I don't have reduce transparency enabled. Even then, I can see small issues and frame drops. It's just horribly optimized and executed, these are trivial animations but they're butchered every time! Also, you can't even scroll past the home screen card (where you are pretty much all the time) without there being stutter. I think part of the issue is near the end of the list of apps, they become slightly transparent for some reason. So the device is dealing with a blurred background, a blurred home screen, and 2 blurred app previews near the end. One of the previews is slightly transparent, but also blurred. You can fully see both blurred previews at the same time in other words, so it's doing twice the work while you're scrolling.
(Notice how you can see clash of clans, notably the large orange attack button in the lower left, through the white of the settings app. This is always occurring, which is causing unnecessary strain. Some instances it's easier to see than others.)
-All of the stutter issues from IOS 7.0 STILL REMAIN ON MY MINI 2.
-The redundancy of having search in 2 places
-You can't easily take the app you have slid over into full screen, it doesn't even appear in the app switcher
-I hate how the app selections for slide over are organized, my most used apps never stay at the bottom of the list, they randomly decide to float away into the very top.
-multitasking gestures on my iPad are sometimes recognized incorrectly. A pinch to close is sometimes repeatedly recognized as a swipe to switch apps.
-iCloud photo library has been extremely wonky since iOS 9.
Hoping future optimizations will fix this especially if it is just 3d touch related.. performance tweaks for older devices might take care of it then.
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