I had the same problem too. But my 6 doesn't have any of these problems and plus the call quality is much better and clearer too
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6s Plus pauses / freezes / lag. Serious issue
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You can't. Once Apple stops signing it, there is no way to downgrade and you are stuck with the current version or wait for the future update.
in my opinion, 6s plus is the worst quality controlled iphone ever had. Frankly I wish i could return my 6s+. I had to replace mine three times for various hardware issues including bad screen, bad volume button, loose headphone jack and etc. my current one I still see some weird backlight bleed on the bottom of the screen. i am tired. the headphone jack is still not tight. **** it. and this touch id unlock issue.. wow.. apple makes that much of money and can't handle ios properly in time. they should hire more people...
Yes with all that money... hire more people... I'm sure that will definitely solve the problem!
Sounds like you should go with a different kind of phone if you are so unlucky to have had four new iPhones that all had problems.
I agree with you they should hire more person and they should practice better quality control methods.
He means iOS 9.2 beta 4 you can sign up for public beta at beta.apple.com
I am running the same beta and have no lag problems with 6s Plus 128GB, but it is the only OS version I have run on this phone so I cannot say if it's an improvement over previous betas or iOS 9.1
And you said it was RAM. Its not RAM its CPU. 6 is fine, 6+ is laggy, jerky in some functions, such as scrolling in music for one example. Other stuff is fine. More pixels but same motor as 6. Pity the 6S + is the same.
The 6 and the 6+ had insufficient RAM to multitask. End of.
The 6+ had more issues because the same CPU/GPU/RAM were pushing a much larger and higher resolution display.
As for the 6S+ lagging, it doesn't. Out of the box it has unlocking lag but this can be cured by the user. I have cured the unlocking lag on my 6S+ and it flies.
ah ok, end of, as you are correct. Thats your opinion, which differs to those on this thread and last years one that you posted incessantly
The lag on the 6+ was system-wide, not just whilst unlocking. You couldn't 'cure' it by restoring either. The 'lag' we're talking about with the 6S+ is purely a software thing and not due to hardware limitations.
I'm not quite sure what you're saying about my "last year's opinion"? The 6+ was underspecced and I have never wavered from that opinion.
My lag is back on beta 4. It was gone for about a week. With only the clock stuttering sometimes. I still only see one person on her who's been able to rid lag completely. I'm going to send you my device haha. Why no beta 5 yet? Number sync and calls on iPad stopped at beta 4 for me also. May go to 9.1 this weekend.
Most people can't "cure" the unlocking lag or don't feel like restoring dozens of times to try to do so.
Currently my 128 GB 6S+ has frequent unlock lag (though not all the time). Nothing I've done has been able to get rid of it. My prior 128 GB 6S+ did not have any unlock lag out of the box and I did a lot of restores on my first phone and never had any lag. My current phone lagged horribly out of the box, but eventually it went away. I then restored from backup and it still didn't lag. I later did a restore and restore from backup and it lagged. From that point on all erasing and restore from backup lagged.
I'm waiting for 9.2 to see if it fixes it. If that doesn't fix it nothing will, since 9.2 will be the last major release before iOS 10 comes out. I'm having Apple replace the phone.
I've had numerous 6S+, replacements for various different faults and none have had incurable unlocking lag. Whether people should have to try and cure it, or whether they can be bothered to or not, this is obviously a software issue and not hardware like it was on the 6+. I totally agree that it's shoddy and I'm not going into that. However, it is fixable with very little effort.
On two of my phones the unlocking lag wasn't present at all. On another couple it went away after one or two restores, and on one it went away of its own accord after a couple of days.
Why will 9.2 be the last major release before iOS10? There's another 8+ months until iOS10.
I did about 15 restores and the lag is still present. I restored from cloud, set up as a new phone and dfu restore from ipsw and the lag doesn't go away. I also tried to see if it goes away from itself but after a week it was still there. What exactly did you do to get rid of it?
With my latest phone I just waited two days and it disappeared. No backup, I set up the phone as new without connecting to a computer. The phone before it didn't disappear after three days, so I restored a backup and it was instantly fixed.
Man, I'm contemplating getting a 6S plus because of the larger memory supposedly helping the lag issues of my current 6 Plus but if people are still having these type of issues (not sure if they're worse than the normal lag of the 6 Plus) then should I even bother ?
The issues for the most part are the same on both my 6+ and 6S+. The severity is less on the 6S+ likely due to the higher horsepower and RAM.
Ok that's easy. I'll guess I just have to wait for the right iOS update. You also got an 128gb?
I have a Samsung CPU on my Plus & have yet to notice these great issues?
I am left scratching my head at these tales of lag & other issues because I just can't see them?
I am left scratching my head at these tales of lag & other issues because I just can't see them?
Have one that is stock iOS 9.1 - nothing else installed and has a basic iCloud email.
Has the same issues when it was loaded with my 124 apps. The apps added may exacerbate the issue in some cases.
Doesn't make the device unusable - just less than "fun".
I had 3 with the exact same issue, better name is the iPhone 6(s)phinx, it's a mystery?
I have a suspicion these issues are down partly to random luck with the manufacturing of your phone & what apps you have installed.
I put it down to pure blind good luck that I seemingly so far have a 'good' Plus.