Does your iPhone 6 Plus work smoothly or does yours stutter on 8.3

[Hot12345]

I have no problem with TouchPal. Which I think is the best Android swiping keyboard also. Swiftkey and Swype are bad for IOS.

Why do you think that TouchPal is better then SwiftKey or Swype? I use SwiftKey and I think this is the best 3rd party keyboard.

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I'm now on the 8.4 latest public beta release and it's fine

Can you tell me of the stutter occurs in 8.4 last build?

 

[ATS]

My iPhone 6 Plus works flawlessly on 8.3. I haven't really had any issues with my iPhone at all; it's the best one I've owned to date (out of a total of four iPhones).

 

[sunking101]

My iPhone 6 Plus works flawlessly on 8.3. I haven't really had any issues with my iPhone at all; it's the best one I've owned to date (out of a total of four iPhones).

There isn't a single 6+ out there working 'flawlessly'.
What you're saying is that the phone is fine for *your* needs and that you don't encounter any real problems with your usage patterns. 8.3 itself isn't a flawless experience, and the 6+ isn't a flawless phone....so put the two together and the end result most certainly won't be one of flawless perfection.

 

[ATS]

There isn't a single 6+ out there working 'flawlessly'.
What you're saying is that the phone is fine for *your* needs and that you don't encounter any real problems with your usage patterns. 8.3 itself isn't a flawless experience, and the 6+ isn't a flawless phone....so put the two together and the end result most certainly won't be one of flawless perfection.

Wow, that was a very rude comment and not at all productive to the discussion at hand.

 

[sunking101]

Wow, that was a very rude comment and not at all productive to the discussion at hand.

Apologies if you find it rude. I just can't fathom how people call the 6+ a flawless phone. It's the least flawless iPhone ever IME.

 

[janitor1999]

Have issues where the screen is unresponsive, can happen anytime on any app, haven't tried for a replacement, as the original one had the same issue. It only lasts a minute or two then is ok again.

 

[jpgr15]

When I'm playing candy crush on my 6+ (yeah, I know - don't judge - it's my guilty pleasure) something as simple and routine as an email being pushed in the background or a text message banner on the top of the screen causes the game to freeze briefly. It even stutters when closing the app. This is just a few examples of many. Sorry, I know technology is not perfect, but really? This is the flagship iPhone for one year and it isn't even that great to begin with. What's it going to be like next year? In two years? It won't be any better - that's for sure. Very disappointing for a $700 device. Even more irritating as I own an iPad 3 so this isn't the first time I've been stuck with a device that was underpowered by Apple out of the gate.

 

[vgamedude]

Lags and closes crap all the time. Browser crashes daily.

The phone is a piece of junk considering the price I paid for it.

 

[farmerpais]

I've been experiencing weird issues, but I had my screen replaced on my 6 Plus a few days before I upgraded to 8.3, so not sure which is the cause. Although, I don't remember the below happening for the few days after screen replacement while running 8.2.

Sometimes I'll launch apps or return to my home screen, and the iPhone won't recognize my touch responses, i.e. Replying to a text message. I have to double tap the home button to take me to all open applications, then go back into the app that wasn't responding and then it will start accepting input. Very annoying and happens sporadically with apps and my home screen.

I replaced a screen on a friends iphone and it is very sluggish now, the screen has become very insensitive but just about usable. Resetting settings didnt help. Will ask him to restore the phone now. Failing that I may pull the connectors and hope theres dust in the way. Anybody had any similar issues?

 

[okwhatev]

The 6+ is without a doubt the laggiest iPhone ever made. no other iPhone performs as poorly right out of the box. it's obviously due to the fact that it's a customized build of iOS running at a resolution that isn't native to the chip. The 6S+ will fix it, but it's incredibly disappointing for a phone that costs over a thousand dollars off contract with tax.

 

[sunking101]

The 6+ is without a doubt the laggiest iPhone ever made. no other iPhone performs as poorly right out of the box. it's obviously due to the fact that it's a customized build of iOS running at a resolution that isn't native to the chip. The 6S+ will fix it, but it's incredibly disappointing for a phone that costs over a thousand dollars off contract with tax.

Absolutely. Coupled with the reload city RAM issue, Apple should offer a hefty discount on the 6S+ to 6+ owners. I paid £700 for a phone that hasn't worked properly since day one.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

There isn't a single 6+ out there working 'flawlessly'.
What you're saying is that the phone is fine for *your* needs and that you don't encounter any real problems with your usage patterns. 8.3 itself isn't a flawless experience, and the 6+ isn't a flawless phone....so put the two together and the end result most certainly won't be one of flawless perfection.

According to the poll you are wrong. Most of them are flawless.

Mine for example doesnt exhibit any of the hiccups you talk about but then again mine isn't jailbroken or installed from backups or whatever you guys are doing.

The hardware is powerful enough for anything it needs to do otherwise none would be working.

But if ours work perfectly, the potential is there for any of them to work right (if they aren't broken) so the hardware is fine.

Im sure if you guys did a software reset it would be just as good as mine.

You can't say the phone is sluggish anymore. Only for certain people, a minority of people, who don't have a clean install or did something weird on there.

By default the phone is flawless. Its up to you guys to mess up the software.

Everytime someone has said there is a hiccup i tried it and it was smooth on my phone.

The two things that were real, were screen rotation pre 8.3, and now I realize spotlight still can be a hiccup if you open spotlight and immediately try to close it.

I guess they re-did how the memory behaves so now with spotlight they expected you to type next after opening it so thats why its like that. Spotlight is very deep in the whole system and to bring it up in an instant has always been a challenge and maybe they just tried to trick the system into pulling up faster with the typing. But it still needs to load the whole computer in 1 sec and there is no way to make that instant. But its has nothing to do with the resolution.

But besides that all those comments are exaggerated or outdated.

Please stop spreading misinformation about the phone it works fine. Its like saying an iPhone 5S is faster than and iPad Air 2 because the animations only have to travel a centimeter instead of 3 inches.

You guys don't really understand what you are talking about. The 6S+ will be the same for you in that case.

The 6 Plus is not underpowered, its just bigger and thats what that looks like.

Out of the 30% of people who voted lag, i think most of you are just confusing this ocular illusion of size, for lag, because a bigger device takes longer to animate.

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The 6+ is without a doubt the laggiest iPhone ever made. no other iPhone performs as poorly right out of the box. it's obviously due to the fact that it's a customized build of iOS running at a resolution that isn't native to the chip. The 6S+ will fix it, but it's incredibly disappointing for a phone that costs over a thousand dollars off contract with tax.

It does push more pixels, but to what degree that affects it is exaggerated. Most clean install 6+s can handle all those pixels perfectly.

Why does mine work fine?

I think some of the early bugs were more at fault rather than the idea that the hardware wasn't strong enough.

1GB of ram works just fine.

People acted like the early bugs meant the phone hardware was at fault but it was just the software.

Now that is fixed and theres no more reason to say that stuff.

 

[vgamedude]

According to the poll you are wrong. Most of them are flawless.

Mine for example doesnt exhibit any of the hiccups you talk about but then again mine isn't jailbroken or installed from backups or whatever you guys are doing.

The hardware is powerful enough for anything it needs to do otherwise none would be working.

But if ours work perfectly, the potential is there for any of them to work right (if they aren't broken) so the hardware is fine.

Im sure if you guys did a software reset it would be just as good as mine.

You can't say the phone is sluggish anymore. Only for certain people, a minority of people, who don't have a clean install or did something weird on there.

By default the phone is flawless. Its up to you guys to mess up the software.

Everytime someone has said there is a hiccup i tried it and it was smooth on my phone.

The two things that were real, were screen rotation pre 8.3, and now I realize spotlight still can be a hiccup if you open spotlight and immediately try to close it.

I guess they re-did how the memory behaves so now with spotlight they expected you to type next after opening it so thats why its like that. Spotlight is very deep in the whole system and to bring it up in an instant has always been a challenge and maybe they just tried to trick the system into pulling up faster with the typing. But it still needs to load the whole computer in 1 sec and there is no way to make that instant. But its has nothing to do with the resolution.

But besides that all those comments are exaggerated or outdated.

Please stop spreading misinformation about the phone it works fine. Its like saying an iPhone 5S is faster than and iPad Air 2 because the animations only have to travel a centimeter instead of 3 inches.

You guys don't really understand what you are talking about. The 6S+ will be the same for you in that case.

The 6 Plus is not underpowered, its just bigger and thats what that looks like.

Out of the 30% of people who voted lag, i think most of you are just confusing this ocular illusion of size, for lag, because a bigger device takes longer to animate.

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It does push more pixels, but to what degree that affects it is exaggerated. Most clean install 6+s can handle all those pixels perfectly.

Why does mine work fine?

I think some of the early bugs were more at fault rather than the idea that the hardware wasn't strong enough.

1GB of ram works just fine.

People acted like the early bugs meant the phone hardware was at fault but it was just the software.

Now that is fixed and theres no more reason to say that stuff.

Yeah try and actually keep multiple apps and tabs open and then tell me 1gb of ram works fine.

I really need to make a video of my phone lagging on heavy webpages and crashing on the browser. It's infuriating, you all must literally not even use your phones.

 

[sunking101]

According to the poll you are wrong. Most of them are flawless.

Mine for example doesnt exhibit any of the hiccups you talk about but then again mine isn't jailbroken or installed from backups or whatever you guys are doing.

The hardware is powerful enough for anything it needs to do otherwise none would be working.

But if ours work perfectly, the potential is there for any of them to work right (if they aren't broken) so the hardware is fine.

Im sure if you guys did a software reset it would be just as good as mine.

You can't say the phone is sluggish anymore. Only for certain people, a minority of people, who don't have a clean install or did something weird on there.

By default the phone is flawless. Its up to you guys to mess up the software.

Everytime someone has said there is a hiccup i tried it and it was smooth on my phone.

The two things that were real, were screen rotation pre 8.3, and now I realize spotlight still can be a hiccup if you open spotlight and immediately try to close it.

I guess they re-did how the memory behaves so now with spotlight they expected you to type next after opening it so thats why its like that. Spotlight is very deep in the whole system and to bring it up in an instant has always been a challenge and maybe they just tried to trick the system into pulling up faster with the typing. But it still needs to load the whole computer in 1 sec and there is no way to make that instant. But its has nothing to do with the resolution.

But besides that all those comments are exaggerated or outdated.

Please stop spreading misinformation about the phone it works fine. Its like saying an iPhone 5S is faster than and iPad Air 2 because the animations only have to travel a centimeter instead of 3 inches.

You guys don't really understand what you are talking about. The 6S+ will be the same for you in that case.

The 6 Plus is not underpowered, its just bigger and thats what that looks like.

Out of the 30% of people who voted lag, i think most of you are just confusing this ocular illusion of size, for lag, because a bigger device takes longer to animate.

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It does push more pixels, but to what degree that affects it is exaggerated. Most clean install 6+s can handle all those pixels perfectly.

Why does mine work fine?

I think some of the early bugs were more at fault rather than the idea that the hardware wasn't strong enough.

1GB of ram works just fine.

People acted like the early bugs meant the phone hardware was at fault but it was just the software.

Now that is fixed and theres no more reason to say that stuff.

I run into insufficient RAM problems *daily*.
1GB may be sufficient for you, but it certainly isn't for me and that's a fact.
The RAM issue is actually much more of a problem for me than the lag. It's the worst problem my 6+ exhibits by a country mile. It feels like a low-end offering rather than a no expense spared flagship.

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Yeah try and actually keep multiple apps and tabs open and then tell me 1gb of ram works fine.

I really need to make a video of my phone lagging on heavy webpages and crashing on the browser. It's infuriating, you all must literally not even use your phones.

Yes. I think the people who say that 1GB of RAM is fine and that the 6+ doesn't lag must just play games & use social media apps. I don't think that they browse newspaper websites multiple times per day, or use their phones for work/research purposes. Then they would see the RAM limitations and scaling issues/lag/freezing.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

I run into insufficient RAM problems *daily*.
1GB may be sufficient for you, but it certainly isn't for me and that's a fact.
The RAM issue is actually much more of a problem for me than the lag. It's the worst problem my 6+ exhibits by a country mile. It feels like a low-end offering rather than a no expense spared flagship.

I don't believe you. I have like 12 tabs open and 20 apps open and there is no difference.

If I closed all my tabs right now it would work the same.

I have an iPad Air 2 with 2gb and i can't tell any difference.

I don't think you understand how RAM works.

 

[5105973]

Mine stutters and lags. I am not sure it's an issue with the phone, however. My iPad Mini Retina has it worse. Ever since the upgrade to 8.3, things have not been so good with 5 of the 6 devices it is installed on in my house.

Me, too...nearly any complaint I can come up with for my IPhone 6 Plus is duplicated for my IPad Mini Retina. A lot of my problems center around neither device acknowledging input on the screen. Sometimes there's a delay when I type before the letter appears. The screens freeze when I try to change orientation. There are lots of little things here and there. My personal peeve is when the device tells me there was a problem on a page and it needs to reload. I get that a lot now. It's sort of a new problem.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Yeah try and actually keep multiple apps and tabs open and then tell me 1gb of ram works fine.

I really need to make a video of my phone lagging on heavy webpages and crashing on the browser. It's infuriating, you all must literally not even use your phones.

Please do make a video, I would love to see what you are talking about.

I have the Reflector app and can easily airplay my iPhone on my mac screen and record the behavior. It runs perfect even whist in the middle of air playing the screen!

I can open and close a bunch of stuff really fast and you can see there is no lag.

 

[vgamedude]

I don't believe you. I have like 12 tabs open and 20 apps open and there is no difference.

If I closed all my tabs right now it would work the same.

I have an iPad Air 2 with 2gb and i can't tell any difference.

I don't think you understand how RAM works.

Funny you're telling someone else they don't know how RAM works.

There is no way you can cycle through all those tabs and apps without them all reloading.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Funny you're telling someone else they don't know how RAM works.

There is no way you can cycle through all those tabs and apps without them all reloading.

reloading? why wouldnt i want the newest version of a web page after a while? lol

And if i am compiling a message like on a message board like this, I can tab over to another tab, come back, and it will still be here, not reloaded.

So im not sure what the problem is. thats hardly considered underpowered. I still never had run into this often quoted criticism.

I think people are just paranoid with wanting 2 GB. This is iOS its very efficient lol. I can't tell the difference between iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6+ at all.

Again, I don't think you guys understand how ram works.

 

[kenypowa]

I don't believe you. I have like 12 tabs open and 20 apps open and there is no difference.

If I closed all my tabs right now it would work the same.

I have an iPad Air 2 with 2gb and i can't tell any difference.

I don't think you understand how RAM works.

LOL. More than 1/3rd of the responses state there is some sort of lag and you don't believe their responses.

Why do you make the poll if you are not going to believe others who have issues? How about change the poll option to:

1: yes it is fine
2: no there is no lag

 

[vgamedude]

reloading? why wouldnt i want the newest version of a web page after a while? lol

And if i am compiling a message like on a message board like this, I can tab over to another tab, come back, and it will still be here, not reloaded.

So im not sure what the problem is. thats hardly considered underpowered. I still never had run into this often quoted criticism.

I think people are just paranoid with wanting 2 GB. This is iOS its very efficient lol. I can't tell the difference between iPad Air 2 and iPhone 6+ at all.

Again, I don't think you guys understand how ram works.

You're asking why someone would care about having all of their current browser tabs purged and telling us we don't know how RAM works. I think you need to get a clue, the refreshing is happening because that information you had pulled up is no longer active in the RAM so the app or browser has to fetch it again. If you're fine with that whatever, but plenty of us aren't, and I definitely DO understand how RAM works.

And further if you want the newest version of a page there is this thing called refresh that I believe is pretty helpful for that. For those of us that actually want to use the phone like a portable pc, saving forms etc. we don't really like our information being purged because we had to take a picture of something.

 

[Bobby Corwen]

LOL. More than 1/3rd of the responses state there is some sort of lag and you don't believe their responses.

Why do you make the poll if you are not going to believe others who have issues? How about change the poll option to:

1: yes it is fine
2: no there is no lag

I don't expect it to be 100% because there are many people who are haters and enjoy seeing apple not be perfect.

So if it were really a problem, it would be a majority saying it lags. not just 30%

But like this it makes sense and also some people have bad software setups.

But a majority of us (66%) have the default experience. So that is proof that a clean setup that runs perfectly smooth definitely exists out there and is the most common.

Some are also outdated opinions from pre 8.3 or people who read other exaggerated myths that were being spread about the importance of RAM or the extra pixels being too much for the processor.

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You're asking why someone would care about having all of their current browser tabs purged and telling us we don't know how RAM works. I think you need to get a clue, the refreshing is happening because that information you had pulled up is no longer active in the RAM so the app or browser has to fetch it again. If you're fine with that whatever, but plenty of us aren't, and I definitely DO understand how RAM works.

And further if you want the newest version of a page there is this thing called refresh that I believe is pretty helpful for that. For those of us that actually want to use the phone like a portable pc, saving forms etc. we don't really like our information being purged because we had to take a picture of something.

That is outside the norm sorry. Not Apples fault.

 

[vgamedude]

I don't expect it to be 100% because there are many people who are haters and enjoy seeing apple not be perfect.

So if it were really a problem, it would be a majority saying it lags. not just 30%

But like this it makes sense and also some people have bad software setups.

But a majority of us (66%) have the default experience. So that is proof that a clean setup that runs perfectly smooth definitely exists out there and is the most common.

Some are also outdated opinions from pre 8.3 or people who read other exaggerated myths that were being spread about the importance of RAM or the extra pixels being too much for the processor.

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That is outside the norm sorry. Not Apples fault.

Going to take one picture and expecting that my webpage will still be up when I switch back is outside the norm? Hahahaha

 

[Bobby Corwen]

Going to take one picture and expecting that my webpage will still be up when I switch back is outside the norm? Hahahaha

Ok hold on ill go try that right now...

EDIT: ooooh you found a good one... ok ok..

EDIT 2: So after I closed a dozen apps including 3 powerhouse memory hogs like garagband mobile, real racing, and vainglory, it didnt happen again. But when they were all opened it happened and i was able to recreate what you said.

EDIT 3: I guess I see where the limit is, but something so small is not worth all the vitrol spewed at the phone. It literally took that specific gimmick of taking a photo while having tons of apps frozen and filling out a form. You can't even recreate this if you have all your apps closed. So if you are really a power user you only have to decide between having lots of apps frozen, or just remembering to not take a photo while filling out online forms. Not really a big deal. Its outside of the norm because iPhone isn't meant for being a power user like iPad is. Its asking a lot for that to be a valid criticism. But I understand more how it can happen now that I specifically looked into it but Ive been using iPhone for almost 10 years and never had this bother me IRL.

 

[sunking101]

Ok hold on ill go try that right now...

EDIT: ooooh you found a good one... ok ok..

EDIT 2: So after I closed a dozen apps including 3 powerhouse memory hogs like garagband mobile, real racing, and vainglory, it didnt happen again. But when they were all opened it happened and i was able to recreate what you said.

EDIT 3: I guess I see where the limit is, but something so small is not worth all the vitrol spewed at the phone. It literally took that specific gimmick of taking a photo while having tons of apps frozen and filling out a form. You can't even recreate this if you have all your apps closed. So if you are really a power user you only have to decide between having lots of apps frozen, or just remembering to not take a photo while filling out online forms. Not really a big deal. Its outside of the norm because iPhone isn't meant for being a power user like iPad is. Its asking a lot for that to be a valid criticism. But I understand more how it can happen now that I specifically looked into it but Ive been using iPhone for almost 10 years and never had this bother me IRL.

It isn't just if you take a photo, or if you have a gazillion browser tabs open. I run into this problem several times a day with just one browser tab, one app, and the stock Notes app. All three reload for fun when you spend some time in one of them. The iPhone 5 didn't do this and I expect the 6+ to be better than that, not dramatically worse. This thing is a toy that behaves like someone forgot to put any RAM into it at the factory.