Any 5s users regret updating to iOS 8? (lag / battery issues?)

[antiprotest]

Things like switching weather views and scrolling through wallpaper selections lags compared to iOS 7. This happens on every iPhone 5s I've come across so far with iOS 8 installed.

Just tried these things again. No lag at all.

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my internet on 5s is slower. It cannot connect to speedtest app at all.

Although my mac is showing full speed internet speed using speedtest.net.



Weird..

I did experience something like this right after the install. But it was gone after a restart.

 

[phillytim]

No regrets at all, my 5S+iOS8 is purring like a kitten! It's such a relief to be in this new iOS 8 world, with all the extensibility and features packed throughout!

Any 5s users regret updating to iOS 8? (lag / battery issues?)

 

[zjazz]

Don't see any difference-not faster nor slower than 7

EDIT: In the very beginning I thought it is the same as 7 but now that I used it a bit it seems a tad slower....maybe I need a clean install because I did it over my 7.

 

[EdgardasB]

Not enought time for battery feedback, performance for me like iOS 7.1.2 just there are some GUI glitches and some bugs. However there are usefull features so upgraded when was available, no regrets.

 

[ipooed]

I experienced crushing battery drain with the GM, so I restored back to iOS 7 last week. Updated to iOS 8 OTA and now I'm not experiencing the battery drain like before. Not sure if it just didn't take the first time or if something got corrupted in the process. Or if it was simply that apps needed to be updated to iOS 8. But my 5s battery is fine now

iOS 8 public release has the same build number as the GM probably why you didn't experience and changes

 

[Ulisescm]

I was expecting some glitches but it runs smooth on my 5s... And I was expecting perfection on my ipad air but it seems more laggy...

 

[chaoskun]

I don't regret. But I do noticed there's a slight lag when going to home screen.

Touch ID, seems not to work sometimes.

 

[ewils19]

My battery seems to be draining faster but it's hard to tell

 

[whyyou]

I'm having frequent freezing and stability issues. I'm wondering if swiftkey is contributing. iOS 7 was more stable.

 

[AppleChic76]

For those who have it running smoothly...did you do a completely clean install? or just the upgrade?

Just the upgrade (via iTunes). Took about 30 minutes total.

 

[JeepGC]

I don't regret it. It runs well in my opinion.

 

[lamerica80]

I dont regret it per se, but i do notice some lag when typing in whatsapp that wasn't there before - kinda feels like my old iphone 4.

 

[DJTaurus]

I regret doing a clean install of iOS 8... a simple update was better

I have done 2 clean installs so far and the same weird behavior keeps occurring.

I tried to move the red icon below from one to screen to another and look where it got stuck


Touch seems not working sometimes... for example when you try to open an app or slide between home screens it lags or it auto opens spotlight.

Also when i tried to move an icon it disappeared for a while....

Most of my apps did not restore information from icloud...

Battery seems a lot worse than iOS7

 

[amitabhbansal]

everything is fine in performance but the battery is a lot worse, in 7.1.2 it was good then ios 8, just carrying a power bank now everytime

 

[wovel]

Working great.

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Maybe we have different understanding of that, but it's clear as day when you go into safari open a page and use that new two finger pinch feature that takes you to that screen where you see all the open tabs and pages from iCloud tabs and so on. It's clearly lags.

You may have an issue or maybe your device is still restoring data. My iPad 2 does that move with a little stutter, but it is pretty old If you ipad air is lagging badly on that, something else is wrong.

 

[iWooz]

Mine is working fine except for the "opening location" animations in the weather app which are sometimes stuttering. Anyone else have this problem?

 

[ame1234]

the weather app clearly lags like hell when opning a particular location from the zoomed out view or the list view also the control centre is not as smooth as it was and the icons in the control centre arenot at all sharp they look like they are very low res

 

[Ulisescm]

Is it me or I think Touch ID works faster on my 5s?

 

[Woochifer]

Nope. I've only seen noticeable lag with the Facebook app, and that's because the app decided to revert back to auto-playing videos after updating. Once I switched off the auto-play, it was fine (or about as fine as the FB app will get).

Some of the scrolls seem slightly slower, but it's not any different than previous times when I restored my 5s to factory settings and restored from backup (do this about once every other month to clear out the "Other" files from storage that cannot otherwise be deleted). Anytime the caches are cleaned out, some actions will hesitate at first and I suspect that's what happens with iOS 8 as well.

The only potential issue I've seen is faster battery drain with a gaming app that was already a power hog with iOS 7. It has not yet been optimized for iOS 8, so I have no idea if things will improve. Otherwise, I have not had enough time to notice the effect on battery life running other apps.

The only other changes I've noticed are that the touchscreen seems more sensitive than before, and Apple fixed a Bluetooth issue where the turn-by-turn voice navigation (or sound effects from any non-streaming apps) would get chopped off in mid-sentence unless I also had a streaming app running at the same time.

 

[nnacrumors]

Not enought time for battery feedback, performance for me like iOS 7.1.2 just there are some GUI glitches and some bugs.

Yeah, I figured that early on in the thread it would simply be people giving their opinion on performance... then over the next week or so the battery life opinions would start to trickle in.

 

[rjalda100]

Mine's running smoothly; I haven't noticed any major speed differences or lag.

 

[nburwell]

For those who have it running smoothly...did you do a completely clean install? or just the upgrade?

I did OTA. I don't have any real complaints. Although my battery seems to be draining a bit quicker than it did on iOS 7. But overall, everything seems pretty smooth on my 5s.

 

[lsutigerfan1976]

Any 5s users regret updating to iOS 8? (lag / battery issues?)

Mine gets really hot. Like when I had an android phone.

 

[Dontazemebro]

Everything is lot smoother but battery life seems to have suffered in the process. Maybe I need a full charge to really gauge it but it seems to be draining a lot quicker than before.

 

[fiveainone]

I don't know if I'm imagining this, so perhaps one of you kind sir would help with some battery tests.

With everything on normal use - no background refresh apps, on wifi, no bluetooth, all apps/recent apps removed, location services on, etc. I did a stopwatch test to see how fast the battery % goes down. Since you can see the time and battery info now with the stopwatch, I hit start as soon as the % goes down 1.

So far it seems to be 1% drain every 5 mins 15 sec plus or minus 10-20 seconds with the screen on.

Once it even stayed on 55% for 10 mins then fell to 53% :roll eyes:. I did a restart as well and no difference. Mine was upgraded from 7.1.1 OTA to 8 via wifi.

Co-worker did the same on his iPhone 5 with iOS 7.1.2, with a week old battery, and was getting 7 mins.

The OS seems to be running smooth though, maybe better than iOS7. Although the new Swiftkey keyboard and sometimes going out of camera there would be hiccup of a fraction of section of lag.