Current Overall Experience of iOS 11 Since Launch

[C DM]

Although I dislike iOS 11 it’s not as bad as some let on, I am far from an apologist btw.
One thing that drives me mad is phone calls when I pull the device away from my ear on all other iOS the screen would light up to the keypad. With iOS 11 it doesn’t do this and I have to tap the screen like a mad man. Don’t like those annoying widgets that stand out at the bottom when typing a text message like a sore thumb, Dislike the new App Store, dislike not being able to fully shut off wifi or Bluetooth unless I go to settings, dislike the lag when changing a song on my pioneer stereo via Bluetooth (takes 20seconds to 1 minute) previous versions of iOS it changes instantly...

If I had a chance to downgrade would I? In a heart beat! I was so angry when I woke up to numerous ipsw signing changes that had ended by the time I got to my computer.

The keypad should come back when you pull the phone away from the ear when on a call. It still works fine for me in iOS 11 as it did before.

The Messages apps drawer can be easily hidden by tapping on the App Store icon there.
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guys apple opened the signing window yesterday for almost an hour to downgrade to any ios version https://9to5mac.com/2018/01/10/users-able-downgrade-from-ios-11/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/psa-up-to-ios-10-3-re-signing.2100299/

 

[JM]

You care about security? Yes! Use Apple!

Or Blackberry?

It's "still" Android, but the DTEK looks interestingly secure.

And ~two day battery life? Yes please.

 

[dk001]

You care about security? Yes! Use Apple!

What aspect of security are referencing?

 

[PR1985]

What aspect of security are referencing?

Spectre and Meltdown, for example.

 

[dk001]

Spectre and Meltdown, for example.

Something I will consider. Google did patch these in their Dec 2017 and Jan 2018 patches. They are available.

 

[ipooed]

The keypad should come back when you pull the phone away from the ear when on a call. It still works fine for me in iOS 11 as it did before./

Every call I make when I pull away from my ear the screen will not light up iOS 11.2.

Tapping the AppStore icon dismisses the icons until the next time a message is typed. No permanent way to remove them?

 

[PR1985]

Or Blackberry?

It's "still" Android, but the DTEK looks interestingly secure.

And ~two day battery life? Yes please.

Blackberry? Dead more or less and I´ve read people complain because they are waiting for security fixes.

iPhone X: currently at 40% battery, Standby: over 46 hours/ Use: over 5 hours, iOS 11.2.2

 

[C DM]

Every call I make when I pull away from my ear the screen will not light up iOS 11.2.

Tapping the AppStore icon dismisses the icons until the next time a message is typed. No permanent way to remove them?

Dismissing the app drawer should have it hidden until you bring it up yourself. Perhaps try it a few times. That's how it works for me and others based on various breads about it.

And pulling the phone away from your face not working, that seems like an issue with your device or install for some reason. It works fine as it used to on a couple of iPhones I deal with on a daily basis. Perhaps you might want to try resetting all settings or even reinstalling.

 

[jasonklee]

Pages, Keynote, Numbers, iMovie, GarageBand, Music Memos, Clips, Animojis have kept me a happy camper.

 

[dk001]

Well .... ordered a Razer.
Have to see how things go 😉

Hope Apple gets iOS fixed 😵

 

[JM]

Well .... ordered a Razer.
Have to see how things go 😉

Hope Apple gets iOS fixed 😵

As in razor from early 2000's??

 

[fiveainone]

Latest couple updates seems to have smoothed out a lot of the performance issues.

 

[AeroZ]

As in razor from early 2000's??

https://www.razerzone.com/mobile/razer-phone

 

[neil74]

I expect performance to get sorted, I am just disappointed how dated iOS still is in so many ways.

10 years on and it is still not much more than a glorified app launcher

 

[I7guy]

I expect performance to get sorted, I am just disappointed how dated iOS still is in so many ways.

10 years on and it is still not much more than a glorified app launcher

Android hasn’t changed significantly either. Unless you expected iOS(iPhone) to have external memory, sideload from anywhere, filesystem access etc.

 

[imagineadam]

So my wife got a new iPhone 8 Plus and I’ve been monkeying around with it and was a little jealous of the new look and features so I decided to take the plunge and update my regular 7 from 10.3.3 a couple days ago even though I knew the risks. I really wanted WatchOS 4 for my series 2 for the heart rate features. I’ll talk about that a little at the end of this too.

The overall feel of the phone is similar to 10.3.3. Some for the better some for the worse. App load time on most third party apps is slightly a little slower. And sometimes there is an odd hang here and there that I barely ever had with 10.3.3. This bothers me a lot and makes me feel a little sick that I updated but I’m learning to live with it. Maybe it will get better with updates maybe not. The weird thing is all system apps feel like they load faster than 10.3.3. It’s the third party apps that hang a second longer when first opening. But then again they hang a little on the wife’s new 8plus in the same places so I’m thinking it’s an iOS 11 thing.

And to address the big elephant in the room. The home button delay. Yes there is a slight delay when closing an app that wasn’t there before on the 7. I got used to it pretty quick and it doesn’t bother me much. Mind over milliseconds. And also the delay doesn’t exist when you are in a folder. Pretty sure they added the delay just to make bringing up the switcher more smooth.

One thing they changed back to the iOS 8 and 7 days is they let you interact with home screen icons during the close animation! iOS 9 and 10 made you wait the the close animation was finished. So this makes things feel more fluid. I’m also a reduce motion user and always have it on and it seems the fade animation is slightly faster. And when you open multitasking and quickly select and app from the switcher it’s faster than 10.3.3.

Something else for the way way better is my signal strength. I know they changed the algorithm for how the bars are calculated vs the dots slightly because there is now 4 bars instead of 5 dots. For some reason I get actual better signal with my 7 everywhere I go. At home I now have 5 bars pretty consistently where I used to have 2-4 dots. And when I’m at work in my back room where signal strength suffered I would barely get 1 dot and had to hold the phone up in he air to get data to go though now I get 2 solid bars and the phone works fine back there.... yeah. iOS 11 or maybe a carrier update changed something with how my phone gets signal strength for real and it’s better! So I’m loving this part of my update to iOS 11.

Ram management? Well this surprisingly has felt about the same too for me. Maybe some apps get kicked out a little more frequently than before but I haven’t really noticed too much it yet.

How about battery life? Well it’s been the same. I took a day off of playing Pokémon go to test things and it’s been identical to 10.3.3 with how I use my phone if I’m not playing a game. Left my phone off the charger while I was sleeping and there was no weird standby drain nothing out of the ordinary.


So I also updated my series 2. Everything is mostly fine except the bug where if you start the stopwatch from a complication the darn thing keeps showing up every time raise your wrist!! Drives me insane. It’s a little laggy when first opening apps but it was a little laggy to begin with. So far battery life is on par with before too. Maybe slightly worse but I got to give it a few more days.

Overall I’ve got mixed feelings about iOS 11 on my 7. Something’s are a little better. Some core things are a little worse. For me the boost in signal strength is a super awesome surprise and im glad I’m on iOS 11 for that reason. Now if I could just gain back that performance I lost from 10.3.3 that would be great. The stability of the phone has been fine for me too. No weird resprings or app crashes yet. I saw lots of complaints on here about those thing in the early days. But I haven’t had that yet.

If I had the choice to go back to 10.3.3 I think I wouldn’t just because of my stronger signal strength. I have ATT btw. Noticed the carrier version went from 28.5 on 10.3.3 to 31.0 on 11.2.2. Maybe that had something to do with the boost still trying to figure it out.

So that’s my mini review of some things I’ve noticed with my update to iOS 11 with my iPhone 7. I gotta hang on to this phone till the next one and I was getting a little bored with 10.3.3. Still have mixed feelings though! 😀

 

[PR1985]

So my wife got a new iPhone 8 Plus and I’ve been monkeying around with it and was a little jealous of the new look and features so I decided to take the plunge and update my regular 7 from 10.3.3 a couple days ago even though I knew the risks. I really wanted WatchOS 4 for my series 2 for the heart rate features. I’ll talk about that a little at the end of this too.

The overall feel of the phone is similar to 10.3.3. Some for the better some for the worse. App load time on most third party apps is slightly a little slower. And sometimes there is an odd hang here and there that I barely ever had with 10.3.3. This bothers me a lot and makes me feel a little sick that I updated but I’m learning to live with it. Maybe it will get better with updates maybe not. The weird thing is all system apps feel like they load faster than 10.3.3. It’s the third party apps that hang a second longer when first opening. But then again they hang a little on the wife’s new 8plus in the same places so I’m thinking it’s an iOS 11 thing.

And to address the big elephant in the room. The home button delay. Yes there is a slight delay when closing an app that wasn’t there before on the 7. I got used to it pretty quick and it doesn’t bother me much. Mind over milliseconds. And also the delay doesn’t exist when you are in a folder. Pretty sure they added the delay just to make bringing up the switcher more smooth.

One thing they changed back to the iOS 8 and 7 days is they let you interact with home screen icons during the close animation! iOS 9 and 10 made you wait the the close animation was finished. So this makes things feel more fluid. I’m also a reduce motion user and always have it on and it seems the fade animation is slightly faster. And when you open multitasking and quickly select and app from the switcher it’s faster than 10.3.3.

Something else for the way way better is my signal strength. I know they changed the algorithm for how the bars are calculated vs the dots slightly because there is now 4 bars instead of 5 dots. For some reason I get actual better signal with my 7 everywhere I go. At home I now have 5 bars pretty consistently where I used to have 2-4 dots. And when I’m at work in my back room where signal strength suffered I would barely get 1 dot and had to hold the phone up in he air to get data to go though now I get 2 solid bars and the phone works fine back there.... yeah. iOS 11 or maybe a carrier update changed something with how my phone gets signal strength for real and it’s better! So I’m loving this part of my update to iOS 11.

Ram management? Well this surprisingly has felt about the same too for me. Maybe some apps get kicked out a little more frequently than before but I haven’t really noticed too much it yet.

How about battery life? Well it’s been the same. I took a day off of playing Pokémon go to test things and it’s been identical to 10.3.3 with how I use my phone if I’m not playing a game. Left my phone off the charger while I was sleeping and there was no weird standby drain nothing out of the ordinary.


So I also updated my series 2. Everything is mostly fine except the bug where if you start the stopwatch from a complication the darn thing keeps showing up every time raise your wrist!! Drives me insane. It’s a little laggy when first opening apps but it was a little laggy to begin with. So far battery life is on par with before too. Maybe slightly worse but I got to give it a few more days.

Overall I’ve got mixed feelings about iOS 11 on my 7. Something’s are a little better. Some core things are a little worse. For me the boost in signal strength is a super awesome surprise and im glad I’m on iOS 11 for that reason. Now if I could just gain back that performance I lost from 10.3.3 that would be great. The stability of the phone has been fine for me too. No weird resprings or app crashes yet. I saw lots of complaints on here about those thing in the early days. But I haven’t had that yet.

If I had the choice to go back to 10.3.3 I think I wouldn’t just because of my stronger signal strength. I have ATT btw. Noticed the carrier version went from 28.5 on 10.3.3 to 31.0 on 11.2.2. Maybe that had something to do with the boost still trying to figure it out.

So that’s my mini review of some things I’ve noticed with my update to iOS 11 with my iPhone 7. I gotta hang on to this phone till the next one and I was getting a little bored with 10.3.3. Still have mixed feelings though! 😀

Good review! Not this typical stuff like "It´s bad." "I´ve downgraded." I would never downgarade. 1. because of security 2. It seems, to me, that one gets many carrier updates only when he or she upgrades.

 

[imagineadam]

Good review! Not this typical stuff like "It´s bad." "I´ve downgraded." I would never downgarade. 1. because of security 2. It seems, to me, that one gets many carrier updates only when he or she upgrades.

Thanks! I forgot to mention that’s another reason I updated. I know there is a slim chance I’d get hacked but with my luck I’d be the guy who gets his identity stolen and weird stuff done with it. Might as well be safe and update.

As for the cell signal I think att probably just changed which frequency bands the phone selects and it’s picking the ones with higher signal instead instead of higher signal quality. Whatever it did it is making my phone have stronger usable signal everywhere I’ve been i my home city.

I’m going to update my screenshots of battery soon for you guys to see. Phones almost dead.
[doublepost=1515944677][/doublepost]Alright here are my battery stats with my regular launch iPhone 7 with a smart battery case.

I play quite a bit of Pokémon go some days so I don’t usually worry about this stuff. I just play and go and charge my phone every night when I go to bed. This is my usage with hardly any Pokémon. I think only started that app up once or twice. I have a series 2 connected all the time too. And I was connected to WiFi all day just around the house listening to spotify for a couple hours and mostly browsing safari and using some apps like YouTube and messages. Just lift basic stuff to see what I could get.

The first screen is when the smart battery shutoff. Pretty normal result when I’m not playing Pokémon. Then I include the screenshot showing my 7 being throttled when the battery is really low. I checked the frequency throughout the day and it was usually up at 2339mhz or 2243 sometimes. It only dropped that low when the battery was under 4%. To me this is fine. I’d rather have the phone stay on longer and be a little slowed down rather than it clicking off somewhere around 10-15% if I’m pushing it. I don’t get why people are freaking or so bad. My battery (not the smart case) has like 445 cycles an was at like 87% last I checked it.

Anyways looks like I got about 6hrs 30mintes usage out of each battery. That seems about normal for how I used my phone before. Back when my phone was brand new I could pull 10 hours usage easy but over the year and Pokémon go abuse my battery has degraded a bit and 6-7 hours of safari browsing and YouTubing is pretty normal for the 7 with a year old battery I think.

 

[dk001]

As in razor from early 2000's??

Not quite. That original was an awesome phone though.

I’ll ad a quick note - maybe a new thread when it comes in.