Considering upgrading to iOS 11

[clukas]

So for the first time I considered delaying upgrading my daily drivers to the new iOS version. Ive always been upgrading as soon as the GM would be released, however after testing iOS 11 on my iPad Pro 9.7 and iPhone 6S, I was not impressed. Whilst the devices seemed to handle iOS 11 well, they felt more sluggish. The iPad had dropped frames and shuttering and iPhone felt slower. I'm still running iOS 10.3.3 on both but am now cobsidering jumping ship to iOS 11 considering it should be a lot more stable now. If you're running iOS 11 on an iPhone 6S or iPad Pro 9.7, how do you find iOS 11 as a daily driver and would you recommend upgrading?

 

[Banglazed]

You have older device which is subjected to throttling due to battery performance so I would recommend you to hold off until 11.3 is released to public. If you are on the beta train, users experience better performance as some user reporting no throttling or less aggressive throttling on their devices plus battery management info will be added to later builds.

 

[clukas]

You have older device which is subjected to throttling due to battery performance so I would recommend you to hold off until 11.3 is released to public. If you are on the beta train, users experience better performance as some user reporting no throttling or less aggressive throttling on their devices plus battery management info will be added.

With the near release of iOS 11.3 is why I'm considering upgrading. Just wanted to gage what people thought of their performance on iOS 11.2 whether some of the performance has improved or not. A major factor is the battery throttling of course.

 

[Paddle1]

You have older device which is subjected to throttling due to battery performance so I would recommend you to hold off until 11.3 is released to public. If you are on the beta train, users experience better performance as some user reporting no throttling or less aggressive throttling on their devices plus battery management info will be added to later builds.

With the near release of iOS 11.3 is why I'm considering upgrading. Just wanted to gage what people thought of their performance on iOS 11.2 whether some of the performance has improved or not. A major factor is the battery throttling of course.

If it’s worn out the battery would already be throttling on 10.3.3 anyway.

And yes, performance has improved a bit since 11.0. According to this video some things are even faster:

 

[mikzn]

So for the first time I considered delaying upgrading my daily drivers to the new iOS version. Ive always been upgrading as soon as the GM would be released, however after testing iOS 11 on my iPad Pro 9.7 and iPhone 6S, I was not impressed. Whilst the devices seemed to handle iOS 11 well, they felt more sluggish. The iPad had dropped frames and shuttering and iPhone felt slower. I'm still running iOS 10.3.3 on both but am now cobsidering jumping ship to iOS 11 considering it should be a lot more stable now. If you're running iOS 11 on an iPhone 6S or iPad Pro 9.7, how do you find iOS 11 as a daily driver and would you recommend upgrading?

All my iOS devices are on 10.3.3 and I moved my iPad air back after trying iOS11 while I had the chance - aside from performance issues there is also the legacy apps to check and make sure you don't have any apps that will not work on iOS 11 - that was an issue for me to stay on iOS 10.3.3

Keep in mind - you can always upgrade but will not be able to return to iOS 10

 

[Shirasaki]

If there is no apparent reason to update to iOS 11 (such as using WatchOS 4), don't update. There is no turning back.

 

[Reno Raines]

I am using iOS 11 on my SE and it seems to run fine. No issues.

 

[skillwill]

iOS 11.2.5 is fine by now. Shouldn’t take this long but that’s another story.

 

[clukas]

Thanks for the advice. Im going to hold out until iOS 11.3, and then see.

 

[IowaLynn]

I stopped trusting Apple Seed betas a very long while ago. OS X 10.3 was first time I saw how they just were not ready until they got to dot 3. Or later. Often the very last update in fact.

I do think iOS 11.3 or 11.3.1 beta looks and feels good - on A10X with 4GB RAM. And yet it has had apps, even Safari, “freezes” so that I had to close a tab or app.

Nothing heavy but it is using 3300MB out of 4GB. 64-bit code and without fat binary is actually more efficient and should use less storage, better use. I’m just not convinced anyone with less than 3GB RAM and slow storage is going to be totally happy.

Continued patching and providing security updates as needed longer so you can safely use devices for 4 years. Apple does an amazing job getting the latest iOS out to such a high % of users.