Just tried these things again. No lag at all.
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I did experience something like this right after the install. But it was gone after a restart.
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Any 5s users regret updating to iOS 8? (lag / battery issues?)
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Just tried these things again. No lag at all.
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I did experience something like this right after the install. But it was gone after a restart.
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!
iOS 8 public release has the same build number as the GM probably why you didn't experience and changes
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.
Touch ID, seems not to work sometimes.
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.
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
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
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 
Working great.
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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.
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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.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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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