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iOS 7 GM animations slow on iPhone 5? Yes or No?
- Thread starter Krissypantz2828
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Yes it's this. Also, it's not as fluid of an experience on the whole. Things like reentering apps from the multitasking screen are accompanied with a hint of stutter and dropped frames. Rotation animations with the keyboard up is nearly always pretty bad. And then occasionally some little things too, like a small pop up menu. I have an eye for this stuff, and I'm dismayed that most of the same performance foibles weren't ironed out since beta 6. I guess that's what's supposed to make the 5S subtly more attractive.
And before anyone asks, this was all a fresh install on my 5. Anyone who thinks performance and fluidity in iOS 7 is better than iOS 6 either had a rotten build of iOS 6 or is slightly ignorant.
Yah I know it can't be our phones either! I don't know what you have but I have an iPhone 5 and our phones are still considered in good shape! I really thought that the animation speed would have changed! I also did a fresh install! Also the big is still there when you kill apps! Don't know quite how to explain it but that's another thing that could have been fixed!
Are you talking about when you swipe them away and one app slides in blank, no screenshot? Or sometimes when you go into an old app through multitasking, it'll animate into an adjacent one, and then flash over to the correct one. To make matters worse, these bugs were all apparent in the betas, and this is the GM.
Yes I was talking about the first thing you mentioned and yes these should have been fixed! Did they miss it or something? I don't remember iOS 6 being this sloppy!
Are you aware of the fact that not everything you say has to end in an exclamation point?
It's outdated as hell now. Don't expect it to run as smooth as the 5S
And according to you the iPhone 6 will make ur 5s outdated as hell. iOS 7 should run fine on a iPhone 5.
I've seen others mention this and I don't get it. I guess if iOS7 (for whatever reason) is running slow on your 5 then perhaps the animation element seems to drag out but I really don't see it as a problem. Mine is perfectly fine and I'm assuming were talking about how it kind of zooms in and out of apps, folders, etc? It never once occured to me that it was slow or particuarly long and drawn out. Surely if it was too fast then you wouldn't notice it and it would be pointless.
I've actually tested the opening/closing app animation speed and it's exactly the same as in iOS 6.
It just seems slower because it's a different animation, I guess.
In the early betas the animation speed was definitely much slower, though.
It just seems slower because it's a different animation, I guess.
In the early betas the animation speed was definitely much slower, though.
It's outdated as hell now. Don't expect it to run as smooth as the 5S
iphone 5 is outdated? Are you high?
iphone 5 is outdated? Are you high?
Apparently to Apple it is...if they discontinued it and replaced it with the 5c and kept the 4S
The 5C has the same screen resolution and CPU/GPU as the 5, so iOS performance should be identical.
OMG, I can't comprehend how people don't realize the difference between duration and performance.
Duration is fixed. These animations take the exact same amount of time on every supported device.
Performance/fluidity is different. Older device render these animations at lower framerates, but they always take the se amount of time. Simple.
Duration is fixed. These animations take the exact same amount of time on every supported device.
Performance/fluidity is different. Older device render these animations at lower framerates, but they always take the se amount of time. Simple.
Slow? YES.
Smooth? YES.
So, no hardware problem. Phone isn't struggling to play the animations. It's just the tempo of them. Too slow. If they were reduced by half it'd be awesome and would look amazing.
EDIT: I'd also appreciate that when you open multitask and move around a little bit you wouldn't have to wait until all movement has completely stopped in order to get your taps onto whatever app to take effect.
Smooth? YES.
So, no hardware problem. Phone isn't struggling to play the animations. It's just the tempo of them. Too slow. If they were reduced by half it'd be awesome and would look amazing.
EDIT: I'd also appreciate that when you open multitask and move around a little bit you wouldn't have to wait until all movement has completely stopped in order to get your taps onto whatever app to take effect.