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Did 2GB of RAM even make a difference? 6S Plus still laggy

Heck no! The 6s plus I have is FAST! On last years plus in camera roll, if I touch the top of the display, I was brought to the beginning of the camera roll quickly, it was choppy to the top. However on the 6s plus, it's not choppy, I quickly get to the beginning of the camera roll smoothly. No choppy transition. I haven't played a game on it yet but will soon.

Remember... This is the fastest phone on the planet! That is according an article I saw on flipboard.
 
My new 6s+ is faster than a Tesla in ludicrous mode.

Any lag is rare and just an OS or app optimization issue at this point. I have heard a few apps are laggy because they are not fully compatible yet.
 
There is no lag. There are also very few Safari page reloads and app reloads. It's very fast and smooth now. This is coming from someone who was very annoyed by the lackluster performance of the 6 Plus. The 6S Plus fully resolves those issues.
 
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bchaplin said:
I moved from an iPhone 6 to a 6S+. I notice on the new 6S+ that after the phone wakes, the first app I try to open can take a while. It is a noticeable second or so of no response, and then it will open quickly. Likewise, if I try to move from one screen to another there is a delay, where the screen acts as if it is frozen. This isn't really a problem but it worries me because I never experienced anything like it on my previous phone, and I hope there is nothing wrong with my device.
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That's fixed in 9.1. That happened to me a few times on 9.0, but since updating to 9.1 beta 3 it hasn't happened since.
 
I'm honestly unsure if this is even a serious thread or what, because the difference I have noticed between the 6 plus and 6s plus is night and day. Even the harshest critics of the device (I won't name them) on these forums are in love with it. Maybe you have a faulty device?
 
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My 6s plus out of the box felt buggy, noticble lag right out of the box.

A week later and I honestly forgot about the lag and it seems that the phone has worked out all the kinks after finishing backing up all my stuff and maybe just working out the bugs from usage. A keeper as far as I'm concerned.
 
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That's fixed in 9.1. That happened to me a few times on 9.0, but since updating to 9.1 beta 3 it hasn't happened since.
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Thanks for the advice. I was just offering my experience as a data point for the discussion. I did update to the latest OS yesterday and we'll see if that fixes the issue.

Bringing the unit back would be a last resort, as I invested a lot of time in setting it up. I have Applecare, so it could be brought in at any time if the problem persists and becomes annoying. And otherwise, I really like the phone!
 
redman042 said:
Any lag is rare and just an OS or app optimization issue at this point. I have heard a few apps are laggy because they are not fully compatible yet.
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Yeah, I've seen a couple of cases of people saying "The Plus is laggy ... in app X", then come to find out there's no other function/app where it occurs. Yes, there are some apps that have mediocre implementations, using old libraries, or even the limitations of handling content from a backend service where the app is making incremental fetches for new data, that has to be loaded, rich content (like images) is fetched as discrete URIs from a CDN, etc.

I'd like to see anyone saying this is very apparent, across most operations, make a video, post it up.
 
I think a few people are experiencing real lag, whether it be an app that needs updating, a glitch in their restored backup, an OS glitch that needs to be patched, or background processes running right after setting up the phone.

But aside from those temporary issues that are happening to a limited number of people, the 6s Plus with iOS 9 is blazing fast and smooth as silk. Apple crammed the horsepower of a desktop machine in this device. It's a beautiful thing.
 
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ToddH said:
Heck no! The 6s plus I have is FAST! On last years plus in camera roll, if I touch the top of the display, I was brought to the beginning of the camera roll quickly, it was choppy to the top. However on the 6s plus, it's not choppy, I quickly get to the beginning of the camera roll smoothly. No choppy transition. I haven't played a game on it yet but will soon.

Remember... This is the fastest phone on the planet! That is according an article I saw on flipboard.
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this may be the first phone with desktop-quality browser speeds. hell with 3D Touch I never even use the home button.

most responsive phone I've ever used, and I've had both android and iOS devices to compare to.
 
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No lags with my 6S+. I had to swap my first due to a home button fault but the second experiences no lag either. I can scroll quickly through long notes and the 6+ could never handle that without stuttering. The menus and homescreens are silky smooth, Safari is way faster and the whole device feels much, much snappier. Oh and apps stay loaded in memory & browser tabs don't refresh anywhere near as readily either.

I cannot for the life of me imagine why anyone would consider this phone a lagmeister, and I'm one of those harsh critics that LordOfTheReef mentions. If this phone was a dog then I'd be the first to say so.
 
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Well I'm coming from a 6 to 6S Plus. So I never had a 6+ to compare.. But my 6 was smooth as silk. But from 6 to 6S+ I get the same non-lag silk but even snappier open and page surf loads.

For fun I went back to my iPhone 4 with the latest firmware allowed for it which I think was iOS 7. And it's amazing what we put up with and still thought it was amazing. You click on an app on an iPhone 4 and it takes almost 3 seconds to open. Imagine how we thought that was the best out there in Oct of 2010. And it WAS the best out there.

This thing is as snappy on app open and Safari browsing as my MacBook Pro late 2013.
 
NewdestinyX said:
Well I'm coming from a 6 to 6S Plus. So I never had a 6+ to compare.. But my 6 was smooth as silk. But from 6 to 6S+ I get the same non-lag silk but even snappier open and page surf loads.

For fun I went back to my iPhone 4 with the latest firmware allowed for it which I think was iOS 7. And it's amazing what we put up with and still thought it was amazing. You click on an app on an iPhone 4 and it takes almost 3 seconds to open. Imagine how we thought that was the best out there in Oct of 2010. And it WAS the best out there.

This thing is as snappy on app open and Safari browsing as my MacBook Pro late 2013.
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It's worth remembering that iOS7 slowed the iPhone 4 down to a crawl though. It used to be a snappy device on iOS4 and 5. iOS6 slowed it down noticeably and iOS7 pretty much killed it as a web browsing tool.
 
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It's worth remembering that iOS7 slowed the iPhone 4 down to a crawl though. It used to be a snappy device on iOS4 and 5. iOS6 slowed it down noticeably and iOS7 pretty much killed it as a web browsing tool.
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Your misremembering that a bit. It was iOS 8 to a 4S that made it completely unusable. I still remember iOS 6 on my iPhone 4 feeling like there was a lot of drag on my finger. I didn't feel any freedom on app open and screen load time in Safari on Wi-Fi until we got to iPhone 5s. Then things really started to pick up.
 
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Your misremembering that a bit. It was iOS 8 to a 4S that made it completely unusable. I still remember iOS 6 on my iPhone 4 feeling like there was a lot of drag on my finger. I didn't feel any freedom on app open and screen load time in Safari on Wi-Fi until we got to iPhone 5s. Then things really started to pick up.
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No, iOS7 killed the iPhone 4. I have one here.
I gave it to my father when I got the iPhone 5 and when I gave him my i5 he returned the i4. It's my only spare phone and it was once my favourite. Even my father hated iOS7 for killing 'his' iPhone 4. It slowed the thing down incredibly. Lag whilst typing, horrendous web browsing lag and the only thing it remained ok for was phonecalls/texts & apps. Some will disagree but I think iOS7 killed the iPhone 4. Few wouldn't have wanted to upgrade their phone the moment they installed it.
 
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No, iOS7 killed the iPhone 4. I have one here.
I gave it to my father when I got the iPhone 5 and when I gave him my i5 he returned the i4. It's my only spare phone and it was once my favourite. Even my father hated iOS7 for killing 'his' iPhone 4. It slowed the thing down incredibly. Lag whilst typing, horrendous web browsing lag and the only thing it remained ok for was phonecalls/texts & apps. Some will disagree but I think iOS7 killed the iPhone 4. Few wouldn't have wanted to upgrade their phone the moment they installed it.
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My point still stands.. From day 1 of an iPhone 4 you had nearly a 'quarter' of the phone you have today with a 6S or 6S+. Anyone still on a 4, even running iOS 5, would JUMP at the chance to be on a 6S/6S+.. there's just no comparison of any kind.
 
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