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Inside iOS 9: Under-the-Hood Improvements for Battery Life, Security, and More
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I want low power mode easier to use, put it on the bottom menu so I can easily access it.
Better yet, let me set it to automatically turn on when it hits a user designated threshold, i.e. when the phone hits 40% automagically turn on low power mode...
Gary
Better yet, let me set it to automatically turn on when it hits a user designated threshold, i.e. when the phone hits 40% automagically turn on low power mode...
Gary
They don't keep the 16GB models to save some dollars, but to upsell you to 64GB.
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I think iOS 9 is eating my 5s battery, that's why I stopped running the beta and rolled back. Now that I've put iOS 9 back on, I think it's sucked up the battery today and I've barely used it. (I had it at 100% after updating, running all the apps [photos, mail, notes, my newsreader, calendar, address book] so I knew it recently refreshed everything and all the apps were all updated while on power.
This is a recently replaced phone from Apple and it's been running great the last two weeks.
Now that I think about it, it's not even the same 5s that I tested the beta on.
I've been using the heck out of it since last week since I just got an Apple Watch and battery life has been good. But today it's spiraled downward.
This is only one day of use, but I feel like it's just how when I ran the beta for a few weeks...
Gary
This is a recently replaced phone from Apple and it's been running great the last two weeks.
Now that I think about it, it's not even the same 5s that I tested the beta on.
I've been using the heck out of it since last week since I just got an Apple Watch and battery life has been good. But today it's spiraled downward.
This is only one day of use, but I feel like it's just how when I ran the beta for a few weeks...
Gary
Very disappointed with the low power mode after downloading and installing iOS 9 final.
If Apple claim up to 3 hours of extra battery then how is that up-to-3-hour figure in any way relevant or meaningful to users unless Apple expects at least some of its users to to enable the mode permanently? One thing Apple is pretty good at is only quoting specifications that it thinks are meaningful to users so surely it must anticipate some people switching it on permanently.
I was planning to do just this, enable it permanently, until I discovered that one of the things it does is set auto-lock to 30 seconds with no possibility to change it. For my usage, reading a lot of information-rich content in my phone, that makes my phone virtually unusable if the screen is going to dim every 25 seconds and then cut out 5 seconds later if I don't keep tapping it. It's such a shame because even on my 5 I didn't find any performance worries when I tried using power save mode for a while and I expect my 6s is going to be insanely over-powered for my needs when it arrives. I would have really liked to be able to set power saving to get another 2 hours or so of use out of it and still probably have way more performance than I need.
I've filed a feedback request with Apple requesting that they don't disable the ability to change the auto-lock timer when power save mode is enabled. Maybe they'll listen if enough people complain.
If Apple claim up to 3 hours of extra battery then how is that up-to-3-hour figure in any way relevant or meaningful to users unless Apple expects at least some of its users to to enable the mode permanently? One thing Apple is pretty good at is only quoting specifications that it thinks are meaningful to users so surely it must anticipate some people switching it on permanently.
I was planning to do just this, enable it permanently, until I discovered that one of the things it does is set auto-lock to 30 seconds with no possibility to change it. For my usage, reading a lot of information-rich content in my phone, that makes my phone virtually unusable if the screen is going to dim every 25 seconds and then cut out 5 seconds later if I don't keep tapping it. It's such a shame because even on my 5 I didn't find any performance worries when I tried using power save mode for a while and I expect my 6s is going to be insanely over-powered for my needs when it arrives. I would have really liked to be able to set power saving to get another 2 hours or so of use out of it and still probably have way more performance than I need.
I've filed a feedback request with Apple requesting that they don't disable the ability to change the auto-lock timer when power save mode is enabled. Maybe they'll listen if enough people complain.
Not as readable as iOS 6 and earlier already were.
Safari is actually snappier.
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This is correct - the quoted 1.3 gigs by Apple is for over the air upgrades.
Once decompressed it will occupied around 4gigs as you have noted.
The benefit will come from apps such as games like real racing 3 that instead of taking 1.4 gig should now take close to half with the app slicing feature.
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This issue was very rare and was related to hardware. How can an iOS upgrade affect the case of the iPhone?
I'm using the build 13A344 9 iOS - iPhone 5s and noticed some errors on my device.
1 - Sounds in all applications are dumb even when iPhone is in normal mode, forcing us to always increase the volume. Affected applications that could include: Instagram, snapchat, Whatsapp, and Videos in the Camera Roll.
2 When it comes to 20% of battery into power enconomia mode. But we're very affected by not having more effect. When opening applications there are always small crashes.
3 When you press and exits from a power saving mode, the effects do not come back and we are required to disconnect and connect the device to the system to work with effects and no crashes as it should.
4- I have airport express and there is incompatibility with airplay, which forced me to turn off the airplay the airport express.
Were mistakes that I found so far. I think when you make a new iOS, you do not think the old appliances always prioritizing releases. This is boring.
1 - Sounds in all applications are dumb even when iPhone is in normal mode, forcing us to always increase the volume. Affected applications that could include: Instagram, snapchat, Whatsapp, and Videos in the Camera Roll.
2 When it comes to 20% of battery into power enconomia mode. But we're very affected by not having more effect. When opening applications there are always small crashes.
3 When you press and exits from a power saving mode, the effects do not come back and we are required to disconnect and connect the device to the system to work with effects and no crashes as it should.
4- I have airport express and there is incompatibility with airplay, which forced me to turn off the airplay the airport express.
Were mistakes that I found so far. I think when you make a new iOS, you do not think the old appliances always prioritizing releases. This is boring.
See the 'SARCASM, BLATENT' entry on this post
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/forum-dictionary.1908404/
Actually.. Everyone should read this... It's hilarious
Would you design a car based on technology from 1950's?
You design things for the new to entice people to upgrade. You are in business to earn a profit. Not a hobby or non-profit.
It's a poor analogy that you're making. Read this comment.
By making poor software to sell hardware isn't a really smart move and by having a 4-year old device running well on the latest OS says a lot about the company and its products (software or hardware).
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This is an idiotic statement. Designing software to run well on an obsolete phone such as the 4S while negating the performance benefits of the 6 and 6S is ludicrous.
With all due respect, it's idiotic to create software running well only on the latest tech especially if the software you make has leverage (meaning that its features aren't/shouldn't be too demanding on the processing power) to run well on old hardware! And iOS shouldn't be a processing power hog because except its fancy animations (which a 4S should and could handle without any issues) there really isn't anything there that should strangulate the hardware.
I believe you're not a software developer, because if you were at least a decent one you wouldn't write such stupid comments. But if you are, you should seriously go back to basics and learn how to create not great, but good software.
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Highly disappointed that Mr. Cook raised the OS X desktop released date requirements higher than the Windows release date requirement. 2012 vs 2009!
If you don't believe me look it up!
The bottom line is that Mr. Cook lied saying that we could continue to use the same hardware for iOS 9. Nothing should have changed for the OS X users and yes even the Windows users.
If you don't believe me look it up!
The bottom line is that Mr. Cook lied saying that we could continue to use the same hardware for iOS 9. Nothing should have changed for the OS X users and yes even the Windows users.
iOS 9 makes your iPhone waterproof. This is a hidden feature no one knows about. Upgrade and test it
Sshhh... he's a 6S upgrader! Allow it to have his moment...