Glad someone is finally making news of this besides our little thread in the iPad section. This issue has been very aggravating the past few months. A $1300 iPad that becomes unusable every few minutes is not acceptable.
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Growing Number of iPad Pro Owners Complain of Screen Stuttering Issues
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It's starting to sound like almost everything Apple releases has issues
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I agree with your sentiment, but they're not stupid enough to let that happen. The shift into services is such an easy way to stay afloat as a company, they can basically coast for another 30 years without really needing to do anything if their services work out.
Come on people, it is a power saving feature. Apple's algorithms predict when you are going to blink, scaling back power at the appropriate moment. You're looking at it wrong.
I have a 2017 2nd Gen 12.9 LTE and have had this issue for a while. In fact, it’s happening right now!
It’s intermittent and happens on any screen or app, even the launcher. Really annoying. I have AppleCare and will take it in at some point, but others have suggested there’s no real fix and you’ll just get a replacement that will eventually exhibit the same issue.
It’s intermittent and happens on any screen or app, even the launcher. Really annoying. I have AppleCare and will take it in at some point, but others have suggested there’s no real fix and you’ll just get a replacement that will eventually exhibit the same issue.
According to the Verge even the News+ is shonky.It's starting to sound like almost everything Apple releases has issues
Mac Pro 2019 could be scary
Maybe this is a deliberate feature to make that seem more polished.
Just the iPad? How about the entire OS since iOS 7 - That’s when all this stuttering nonsense first occurred. Stutters in any way shape or form in 2019 with the supposed powerful chips they have now when there wasn’t any stutters with less powerful chips over six years ago is just abysmal from a company who (once) prided itself with nothing but quality.
To be fair, when they add features which apply to the display and you put something on top of that "stock" display glass, then that's your problem as a consumer for adding something additional. I know it may seem minute, but you're still applying another surface on top of the touch interface/glass that the pad was not technically designed to be used with.
Looks like a software issue. I find iOS to be very prone to lagging and stuttering. In general it’s just not up to Apple’s former quality standards.
IMO, this is likely a software issue. I have the original 12.9" iPad Pro from 2015 and began getting a lot of freezes or moments of unresponsiveness during the last 6-8 months. It's most common within the main screens of the OS, but it can also occur in 1st party apps like Photos or 3rd party apps like Kindle. It seems similar to what happens with the spinning 'beachball' in MacOS minus being able to see any type of system graphic telling you there's a temporary problem. It usually clears up within a few seconds and things will function normally.
I would tentatively say that it's been improved by the latest iOS update, but need to spend more time with that version in place to really know for sure.
I would tentatively say that it's been improved by the latest iOS update, but need to spend more time with that version in place to really know for sure.
I am starting to think it's 12.2 related because my iPhone starting having scrolling issues after I went to 12.2, it hesitates when trying to scroll.
I’m Roger. The guy who emailed Juli. It was my last resort. There are so many of us on forums who have been going through these issues and until it happens in the store, even with video evidence, Apple wouldn’t admit to the problem.
I replaced my Mac with an iPad just how Apple asked me to, but I couldn’t get work done. At all. I’m lucky I had AppleCare and had the first unit replaced but this was after not being believed by the Genius Bar.
I love Apple and actually felt bad reporting it but, we had no other option. This costs more than a MacBook Air and it’s unacceptable.
I replaced my Mac with an iPad just how Apple asked me to, but I couldn’t get work done. At all. I’m lucky I had AppleCare and had the first unit replaced but this was after not being believed by the Genius Bar.
I love Apple and actually felt bad reporting it but, we had no other option. This costs more than a MacBook Air and it’s unacceptable.
My 10.5 iPad Pro started screen stuttering last year. I assumed it was some system software issue interacting with the way Safari renders web pages. Annoying when it happens, but not a show stopper. IMO it’s a typical example of Apples half-assed software efforts of late.
My October 2015 12.9" iPad Pro at some point started to become quite unresponsive at times (typing could be a royal pain when you had to hit each key on average two or three times before it would register, funnily enough it sometimes made the clicking noise but the letter would not appear on screen). This might have started roughly with the release of iOS 11 in September 2017. It was finally fixed with the release of iOS 12. However, now with iOS 12.2 it seems to have returned, though in a milder form.
Completely unacceptable for such expensive products.
The way iOS is architected, without a bunch of processors its gonna stutter. I doubt even 8 processors would be enough. Everything runs as its own daemon, so you have to wait for it to wake up and start processing.
Stuttering is one thing. Being unresponsive is quite another. If you have to hit a letter on the on-screen keyboard five times before it registers that isn't stuttering anymore. Stuttering means you are waiting on something, unresponsive means it doesn't register input. Of course while it is stuttering it might become unresponsive as well but that is temporary, wait a bit and it will start become responsive again.
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