Intermittent problems are very hard to demonstrate.
Also, seeing how 8.1.2 brought huge improvments I'm kinda hopeful for more. Nothing here is a dealbreaker, just disappointing. My phone isn't a lagmonster, it just has occasional WTF moments.
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Are new iphones starting to lag due to 1GB of RAM?
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Intermittent problems are very hard to demonstrate.
Also, seeing how 8.1.2 brought huge improvments I'm kinda hopeful for more. Nothing here is a dealbreaker, just disappointing. My phone isn't a lagmonster, it just has occasional WTF moments.
Hehe that made me laugh. Good one
Well thats a grey area you know. While a lot of people claim to have their 6+ work smooth as butter, every thread has an equal number of users, if not more, who have had issues. To be honest, that played a major for me (amongst others) when deciding between 6 & 6+
Hey, my first 6+ was a keeper. No multiple replacements here.#
I wouldn't file noticeable UI stutters under 'OCD'. Same goes for browser tab and app reloading. This stuff happens, and on a £700 device it's frustrating. Sure there are plenty here who say their devices are 'perfect' but as the previous poster stated, a similar amount claim problems. There cannot be smoke without fire.
We can all agree on one thing though - during the days of 4 and 4s (& maybe 5?), lag/stutter was something so Android or so Samsung. I remember Google introducing Project Butter a few years ago just to make the Android user experience smooth & lag-free. Anyway, it wasn't something that could in any way be affiliated to Apple! Its all different now.
My i4 and i5 were super-smooth, with instantaneous touchscreens. I couldn't fault anything except tab reloading and battery life. In fact, the iPhone 4 remains my most perfect smartphone. I really enjoyed owning that phone. I'd hate it now of course, but at the time it was awesome and it definitely holds top spot in my affections.
I had the black one because the white was as rare as hen's teeth for quite some time. Agreed, the white looked awesome. IIRC, the white model was delayed because Apple had trouble matching the home button colour to the bezel. Funny how my white 6+ home button doesn't match the bezel! ☺️
No, the real problem is when people claim that lag is a "problem" as people have done here and get all infuriated that people don't see it.
It is just as misleading to say that the Tesla has lag (e.g. a performance problem) because the new Tesla 85D has a faster 0-60 than the lowly 85 has.
Wow I thought those were just speculations. Another speculation being Steve was wary of a white variant.
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I'm not saying its a problem, I'm saying all current computing systems lag. I've never seen a device with no lag.
My 6 plus doesn't lag. It's the smoothest and fastest performer out of all my current devices (iPad Air, mini 3, Galaxy tab pro 10.1).
I agree with that. Heck responding and incorporating this quote exhibited some lag on my iPhone 6+. However I wouldn't generally say that my iPhone 6+ is laggy. This was a case of poor network communications that would have happened with any device at that exact moment in time. It could have been so many things.
We have to be careful about those kind of distinctions. Just like with scrolling. It has some purposely built in soft start/finish to give it a more natural feel opposed to other systems where it goes instantly. Is that lag? No I wouldn't class it as lag at all, although for those who want to they could argue it is.
Lag is being presented like it is a bad thing , like it could be fully controlled by the device. Well it can't, and it doesn't have to be a bad thing. As I said I really like how scrolling is managed on iOS and OSX.
I just think there are a few groups here in agreement with each other. Yes the device lags, however it doesn't do it in areas where it matters.
That's crazy talk! Why would anyone buy an iPhone 7 when the iPhone 7S would clearly be the improved and superior model?
MLC aren't faster than TLC, especially when reading is involved.
All this bad light put over TLC NAND by a baseless article in the past is just plain RIDICULOUS
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I didn't say that.... Btw I hardly need more than four tabs opened on any device, especially tablets or smartphones. And all of my devices, iOS, Android or Windows phone, can handle that.
Not in my case. Here's why: I keep as few apps open as possible on both my iPhone 6 and iPad Air.
it's hit or miss for me... sometimes i never notice it, other times it bothers the crap out of me
i'll have a browser window open up in Mercury, and the window will just disappear when switch away and coming back to it
i've noticed with facebook too, it reloads when I come back to it
all in all though, I can deal with it... just wish apple put 2GB of RAM in there to start with
i'll have a browser window open up in Mercury, and the window will just disappear when switch away and coming back to it
i've noticed with facebook too, it reloads when I come back to it
all in all though, I can deal with it... just wish apple put 2GB of RAM in there to start with
Or you're oblivious. The 32bit i5 reloads tabs and apps less frequently than the two years newer 6+, and the i5 was heapum frustrating when it did it.
This^^^^^
I have an Air 2 and the first Air. It's clear they have fixed the reloading with 2 GB of ram on Air 2
Still have the problem on my 6+ definitely. Annoying once you know the problem is Apple cheaping out on RAM.
There are stuttery areas on my iPhone 6. Scroll through apple's stock wallpapers, for example. However I'm positive its the software and not the hardware.
I've been playing around with canvas/webgl lately, and I can create smooth interactions and animations that work the same on my computer, iPhone 6, and even an aging iPad 3. And thats inside a web-browser, using javascript.
I've been playing around with canvas/webgl lately, and I can create smooth interactions and animations that work the same on my computer, iPhone 6, and even an aging iPad 3. And thats inside a web-browser, using javascript.
I work as a developer. I own many Apple products. I am what you would call a fanboy. I own a 13 inch mbpr. I own two 15 inch mbprsone with a 750m and the other has a 650m. I own an iPhone 5s. I own an iPhone 6 and I own an iPhone 6+. See these pictures for some proof:
I need these devices for development purposes. They are all running the latest builds. I have other phones running 8.2 beta, also.
I will confirm what other posters have said. THERE IS DEFINITELY LAG on the 6+. It is not atrocious, but I can make every single 6+ crash with a springboard reload. I can make your 6+ do this. I can make the 6+s in the the store on demo mode crash. I can make anyones crash while just browsing on certain sites in Safari. There is definitely a problem with the scaler. This does not happen on a 5, a 5s, or a 6. It only happens with a 6+.
I need these devices for development purposes. They are all running the latest builds. I have other phones running 8.2 beta, also.
I will confirm what other posters have said. THERE IS DEFINITELY LAG on the 6+. It is not atrocious, but I can make every single 6+ crash with a springboard reload. I can make your 6+ do this. I can make the 6+s in the the store on demo mode crash. I can make anyones crash while just browsing on certain sites in Safari. There is definitely a problem with the scaler. This does not happen on a 5, a 5s, or a 6. It only happens with a 6+.
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