I'm really impressed at the speed increase & smoothness of operation that 8.1 update has brought to my iPhone 6! Anybody else?
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8.1 smoother on iPhone 6?
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Never had any issues with 8.0.2 (except for occasional lag here and there) and 8.1 runs even better for me on my 6+.
It does NOT feel like 8.0.2. There are clear improvements in UI transition smoothness and other various improvements like third party keyboards.
Mixed reception by who? You realize statistically that only like 1/10 people will take time to write a positive review but 9/10 people will write something negative. This sounds more like a perception issue.
That isn't typical of Apple really.
And we don't even have Apple Pay here yet so fail to see how NFC would be on.
Sorry but that's like saying your debit card needs to be charged every night because it has NFC built in. I think you misunderstand how NFC works.
What tests have you conducted that prove that the Wifi speed drops are a direct cause of iOS 8.1 and not your router or radio interference?
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Seriously?
I have wifi, bluetooth, location services and background refresh on EVERY App turned on and I don't experience any battery issues and you're pointing fingers at a feature that only uses battery when it is activated?
All good here too on iP6. Coming from 8.1 b2 (which was better than 8 and 8.0.2) have not had any further landscape lockups or safari refusing to play a video until reset connections. Also wifi is faster now finally. Battery seems about on par but too soon to really know for sure. Overall pleased so far!
Wow apparently all of us here are not NFC engineers.
I suspect the minor difference you are seeing is the fact that there is some housekeeping going on and most likely you are fooling with it more checking out new and different features. Apparently NFC does not take much or any power (like ccards) but definitely a good thought as that is something that was added with 8.1.
8.02 worked fine on my 6 with a few bugs and 8.1 feels more solid. Speed was good on both 8.02 and 8.1. I feel bad for all the issues people are experiencing. I've owned 3 iPhones, iPad 2 and now iPad Air 2 and all have and are working very well.
Ya know I was thinking the same thing over the past few days. Wasn't sure if just update cleanup stuff or indexing or what but seems that battery was a little off. As you said not significant but noticeable. I was always amazed how long iP6 worked and stayed on 100% with really a lot of use with battery left over at the end of day. After updating from 8.1b2 to 8.1 release it didn't seem like it was quite like it was. This afternoon my wifes iP6 which was updated from 8.0.2 to 8.1 had about the exact standby and usage times as me and hers was on 99% and I was at 92% remaining. While that is not huge, it is 7% difference within 7 hr stdby/30min use on both. That sorta confirmed for me that something was off a little from where it was. So being that I upgraded from a beta version (which I never do) I decided to restore via iTunes and let iTunes backup/restore my data as well so it would be painless. Tonight it seems that the prior battery life is back like it was. Of course all this happened today so may be to early to tell but it definitely seems that the phone is performing like it was once again.
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For one data point, the swipe to delete emails seems much smoother. Definitely looks like work was done on UI issues there.
