Okay, well be sure to come back here and let us know when yours starts to do it too. I find it hard to believe that your iPhone 6 doesn't have any issues when I tried it on a completely fresh install with nothing else installed, and all setting set to default.
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iOS 8.4 Terrible Lag
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Okay, well be sure to come back here and let us know when yours starts to do it too. I find it hard to believe that your iPhone 6 doesn't have any issues when I tried it on a completely fresh install with nothing else installed, and all setting set to default.
Looks like typical post-Jobs Apple quality to me.
My IPA2 works fine as well. I brought up Safari and ran an Ookla speedtest as well with Music still playing. I'm not seeing anything strange?
How did nobody at Apple notice this and how did it make it through the beta? Isn't the point of a public beta to get people to test and report bugs like this one? Unfortunately, they didn't let me in the beta for whatever reason. Probably because I don't have Yosemite.
Maybe you have a setting turned off somewhere that I have on? It makes very little sense why you're not seeing anything out of the ordinary.
Update....turning off "show Apple music" in settings seems to alleviate the issue on my iPad Air 2 slightly..... Obviously this totally sucks if you want to use Apple music on the latest iPad. A co-worker who has a 6 plus had some delays as well.
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Seems more like typical post-update occasional issues for a handful of users type of thing.Looks like typical post-Jobs Apple quality to me.
Funny... I had Apple Music turned off :-(. I only wanna listen to my music.
Nope, after 5 minutes the lag is back....sorry guys. Get back to 8.3 while you still can.
Don't be smug, I'm having no issues on my 5S but tons on the Air 2. As are most people here posting that have new devices.
Not sure where the smugness comes in. I simply pointed out that so far this doesn't come off as some sort of overall failure on Apple's side as the post I was replying to was implying in a way, but more along the lines of typical things that happen to various people after pretty much any update. It's simple reality that we've seen documented in many threads after many updates--people do run into issues after updates, but most of the time they aren't some sort of widespread general issues. That's basically all I was alluding to there, without any other implications.
Sorry to hear that. I guess it's back to 8.3 then. Too bad too because I really liked the new music app.
I haven't had any of the issues you've shown either, and have been cycling between iPad and iPhone all day today, playing Beats 1 since launch. However, I do have the screen delay issue that others have reported. Lag, however, I have not seen...and I've been hammering pretty hard on the iPad and phone. Neither are fresh installs. Both OTA updates that only took about 5min. One thing I should note is that I have NOT subbed to Apple Music yet. I've only been playing Beats 1 Radio. Quick question to the OP, are you syncing music to iCloud with Apple Music, or no? Wondering if a pending sync to the cloud might stutter the Music app while the music is still uploading. Just an idea. Here's the delay video I posted in another thread:
I'm pretty sure the screen delay is part of the same issue.
Also, I don't sync with the cloud and Apple Music was turned off (I didn't subscribe to it either).
I noticed the lag within a few minutes of getting 8.4 and it slowly gets worse and worse until I quit the music app completely. Also, it doesn't matter if I'm using headphones, bluetooth or simply playing music out of the iPhone speakers. It happens to me no matter what.
I wish I knew what I was doing wrong so I could simply avoid doing it. However, I shouldn't have to avoid using my iPhone as it's intended purpose just to not have all that lag.
I would try to video tape it happening, but I've already downgraded to 8.4 in fear that Apple might stop signing it soon.
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Possibly. Posted that in a separate thread, specific to screen delay when waking after a minute or longer of sleep. Anything sooner than a minute, and it's not present. Other than the wake issue, haven't seen any lag on my side. Are you syncing a large music library as part of Apple a music, or no? I was wondering if that might have been slowing down the Music app on the iPad. Can't really think of anything else. That video is pretty extreme. If that came into my store I'd immediately think it was a display calibration issue, although you mentioned this is only relative to iOS 8.4
Updated to 8.4 on my mini 2 and iPhone 6, haven't had any issues other than when trying to find them using the music app. I don't really listen to music all that much, and when I do I use other services like spotify, so I won't be regularly running into these issues. I did replicate it though on my mini 2, it just was not anywhere near as bad as it was on that air 2 in the video posted on the previous page. You have to be playing music for a bit for it to happen, and the longer the music has been running the worse it gets I believe. I am not subbed to Apple Music and I have noticed the sluggishness by the way. Just not as bad.
I also have noticed numerous stutter issues within the app aside from the horrible lag caused by the app elsewhere. Bringing the mini player up or down causes dropped frames as does scrolling throughout the app such as the "New" tab. This is on my mini 2. Haven't tried it on my iPhone 6.
I also have noticed numerous stutter issues within the app aside from the horrible lag caused by the app elsewhere. Bringing the mini player up or down causes dropped frames as does scrolling throughout the app such as the "New" tab. This is on my mini 2. Haven't tried it on my iPhone 6.
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Was just browsing safari and whenever the track switched to the next song there was 3-4 seconds of extremely choppy scrolling In safari. Every time.
Yup me too. iPhone 6. I can get the icons to do what he did in the video too. It takes a little while of playing music and the lag intensifies during and right after a track switch.
Skip to the next track immediately hit the home button and try to swipe to another home screen and it happens every time. Not a huge deal but kind of annoying.
They will probably fix it 8.4.1 and patch up the jailbreak.
Safari is extremely laggy in this update for me as well. It was not this bad in the public beta at all. But then again we didn't have full access to Apple Music in the beta. Hopefully they release an update soon.