Just redid my test the next morning - Europe here -, and I still don't see the usual stutters. There are a few but so infrequent I don't think they're of the same root cause.
Would you mind to test for genshin impact and hit the island if u ever had that games installed ?
I've never used Genshin impact, so I would rather not do that myself as I don't have a basline, Hit the Island has been constantly bad for me since iOS 16.6, but I suspect it's the app this time around as it even stutters before I touch the screen. It "only" used to stutter after touch input, now it's just constant. That's when I switched over testing with Crossy Roads.
Could you try Subway Sufers? That game has the stutter for every touch on 16.5
I just tried it. I have definitely seen microstutters, but not only at touch input, and definitely not for every or even every 3rd touch. It's pretty good, didn't annoy even me, and I am legendary for being picky. Compared to what Hit the Island used to be for me before iOS 16.6, since last September, it's no comparison, this is enjoyable, that was just a big fat mass.
It was great on ios 15 (13 pro max). The issue started with ios16 betas till now. ios17 gets some positive feedback for beta 2, but it's too early to tell. Going from "stutters when I touch the screen" to "stutters all the time" is not exactly anything fixed. I also played wild rift before, but stopped after few months struggling with worse experience than a f iphone 6s. riot themself said they are working on it few times I contacted them and knew about the issue from early October as I contacted them first time. Last time was this year and received the same response by another employee. No point of doing it again, clearly they can't fix it or it will require major rewrite of code (and WR is not doing that hot, it's skeleton crew supporting that game).
I am stunned in disbelief. When it comes to WILD RIFT, the game I bought the IP 14 PRO to play, I know 2 steamers who do live on twitch using IP 13 PRO MAX, and they streaming in 120 hz without any fps drop, it's 122,120. Now we are using a newer and more expensive cell phone than theirs, 120 - 105 - 95 - 115 in loop, when will this end?
Not sure how that goes, because I own 13 pro max and stopped playing wild rift after going from ios 15 (buttery smooth 120/60fps there) to ios 16 where the stutters started + 120fps on cold as f in winter phone drops to 60-70, i.e. bugged out and didn't work properly at all. They are so severe that even the FPS meter in the game goes towards 50 (before on ios15 all versions locked 60 and perfect frametimes).
