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6s Plus pauses / freezes / lag. Serious issue
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Still going on about users join date? Wasn't that so 2009?
And no, if it was hardware it would not have to affect all users.
I'm no engineer but isn't another fundamental of logic that not all devices are created the same and parts can fail? In addition the models do have different parts (6s vs 6s plus and storage size for instance).
Yep. Many hardware failures don't always happen across the board. It's happened many times with Apple Mac books, etc.
No one knows for sure what's causing it. It's all anecdotal for now. I am hoping for software.
Like many have said, the lagging was bad for me at first but went away after 18 or so hours. It must be something going on in the background - I did download 70GB of apps!
You failed to realize that for most it goes away , for remaining it either remains or goes away with OS restore
All of which indicates indexing and software not hardware. If it was a hardware issue for some then it wouldn't go away by itself or by a restore
Come on think logically
An important clue that it's software is that many like myself had the problem only on the day they got the phone. After that it went away. A hardware problem would not go away.
I have done a clean reset twice on 6s since Friday when I got the device, and both times after installing a bunch of apps and pairing with with my Apple Watch, I would restart to find that my 6s became excruciating slow to the point that the device cannot be used. I spent frustrating hours trying to diagnose the problem. Finally, I found a solution to my problem that may be useful to users here in this forum. When I turned off the Weblock software that I had installed to deal with web ads, my device became normal again. The slowness has not returned since.
Like some others in this thread, my 6s plus was lagging horribly after I first set it up, primarily right after I'd wake it. However, after about 24 hours, this lag just disappeared.
How can it be software.....are we not all running the same version of the OS. It has to be apps that have been installed by users
Well after using my 6S+ for a good few hours I can report zero lagging, either from waking the device or using it. However, I have had one screen freeze whilst web browsing and the webpage then did the dreaded crash and reload saying "the website had to close due to a problem". I don't know if that is the infernal 6+ issue rearing its head again or whether it's a software issue affecting 6S owners too. The 6S+ is a TON better than the 6+ though.
Had my Verizon 64GB SG 6S+ running since yesterday late morning and haven't noticed anything stuttering or any delay (with the exception below) - and I'm someone who was particularly sensitive to it on the 6+ (non-S model running iOS8).
I _did_ have this problem. Clearly it wasn't the settings, other apps worked perfectly, and the home screen would rotate with an extra tap of the home button or a hard press. Apparently the "landscape view" is not available in zoom mode, so what I did was switch to zoom mode (under Display), let the phone reboot (required for this mode change), the special plus landscape mode of course was absent from all apps, then I simply switched back to the standard mode and after the reboot, problem solved.
Love the landscape mode too, one of the [minor] motiviations for me for buying a 6S+ over a 6S.
I _did_ have this problem. Clearly it wasn't the settings, other apps worked perfectly, and the home screen would rotate with an extra tap of the home button or a hard press. Apparently the "landscape view" is not available in zoom mode, so what I did was switch to zoom mode (under Display), let the phone reboot (required for this mode change), the special plus landscape mode of course was absent from all apps, then I simply switched back to the standard mode and after the reboot, problem solved.
Love the landscape mode too, one of the [minor] motiviations for me for buying a 6S+ over a 6S.
Mine did the same thing after I updated to iOS 9.0.1 OTA. It would freeze bad if screen was locked for at least 5 minutes. Last night a restored via iTunes and loaded a fresh copy of 9.0.1 and loaded my backup via iTunes. So far not a single issue since.
Mine lags at the lockscreen. Even when trying to type in my passcode, it lags and doesn't register my presses until 2-5 seconds. I've pressed the lock button to wake it up, and I've had a dark screen. I have the iPhone 6plus 128gb model of anyone is wondering.
I had this problem on my iPad mini 2 with 9.0. I did a reset all settings and it fixed the problem. Maybe it will work for you.
