6 Plus extremely slow

[MacOG728893]

My 6 is coming in the mail in the next few weeks. I'm currently on an iPhone 5 running iOS 7.1.2, which is running flawlessly.

I'm thinking I'll try to configure the 6 as new since the my 5 is two years old. Just a bit of a pain.

What do you guys think?

 

[johannnn]

#24 Today, 01:36 AM ( Report )
Rotating a photo taken with the iPhone takes about 20 seconds!!

Less than a second for me, something wrong with your phone.

 

[navodwickra]

Try 8.1. The smoothness and battery life is very noticeable on my iP6 (not plus) with 8.1.

 

[Risco]

Try 8.1. The smoothness and battery life is very noticeable on my iP6 (not plus) with 8.1.

Yup, I noticed this as well. Battery life is certainly much improved.

 

[RKO1195]

My 6 plus is fast no problems here.. But I never use a backup and always do a DFU restore and set up as new phone ALWAYS...

 

[Imory]

Did u setup as new or restored from a backup?

Edit: This is solely applies to iCloud backups.

I honestly don't really understand why people mention this. The backup only contains "personal" data taken from your contacts, photos, messages etc. Then you have a command from the phone downloading the previous apps you had, but it doesn't contain any app data (except personal/iCloud data).

I guess if one really wants to make a "clean" install, he could update the phone, backup to iCloud, wipe the phone, then use the backup again from iCloud.

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What do you guys think?

It honestly shouldn't matter.

 

[mcvite]

My iphone 6 plus running 8.0.2 is running and performing brilliantly plus i cannot fault it at all,only received it on thursday of last week,

 

[Deliro]

The 6PLUS is absolutely fast, do you have a lot of stuff on your phone such as gigs and gigs worth of music and phones and apps? If so, then that could be the cause of the lags. I'd do a back up and do a restore and then only add stuff that you need back to the phone. If there are huge files on the phone then that could be the cause maybe (especially if you have several)

Hope that helps and good luck and let us know how you go.

Having a lot of data such as music and photos does not slow down the phone. Flash storage doesn't have those issues.

 

[Planins]

I honestly don't really understand why people mention this. The backup only contains "personal" data taken from your contacts, photos, messages etc. Then you have a command from the phone downloading the previous apps you had, but it doesn't contain any app data (except personal/iCloud data).

I guess if one really wants to make a "clean" install, he could update the phone, backup to iCloud, wipe the phone, then use the backup again from iCloud.

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It honestly shouldn't matter.

No, you are quite wrong there. An iTunes backup has all the apps with their data in it and it restores it back everytime. That's why you ALWAYS start from scratch if you had you phone jailbroken. Restoring a backup from a jailbroken phone means introducing a lot of bugs to it and is generally a big no no. Even if your phone wasn't jailbroken it still restores a huge amount of data that is "alien" to the phone as it was meant for another phone e.g. an iPhone 5S. Restoring a backup from your first phone till the iPhone 6 will result in a HUGE "Other" portion of the storage taken by unused from the system files.

An iCloud backup however is different as it only restores your contacts, settings, etc. and the apps are then downloaded wirelessly from the AppStore. That reduces the risk of getting such bugs to a minimum. Cheers!

 

[Imory]

No, you are quite wrong there. An iTunes backup has all the apps with their data in it and it restores it back everytime. That's why you ALWAYS start from scratch if you had you phone jailbroken. Restoring a backup from a jailbroken phone means introducing a lot of bugs to it and is generally a big no no. Even if your phone wasn't jailbroken it still restores a huge amount of data that is "alien" to the phone as it was meant for another phone e.g. an iPhone 5S. Restoring a backup from your first phone till the iPhone 6 will result in a HUGE "Other" portion of the storage taken by unused from the system files.

An iCloud backup however is different as it only restores your contacts, settings, etc. and the apps are then downloaded wirelessly from the AppStore. That reduces the risk of getting such bugs to a minimum. Cheers!

Oh, I was talking about an iCloud backup. Haven't done an iTunes backup in years. So the iTunes backup really works differently? Why is that? Now I don't really deal with jailbroken devices, but why would it act differently for regular users who decide to backup on iTunes instead of iCloud?