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iOS 8.4 Terrible Lag

I am quite shocked how bad iOS 8.4 (especially Safari and the new Music app) runs on the iPad Air 2. I mean: Hello?!? This is by far the most powerful iOS-device yet! On the iPhone 6 however I feel it runs quite good...

maugustine said:
(...) Hopefully they release an update soon.
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I don' believe there will be another iOS-8-update like 8.4.1 or something. All iOS-devs now focusing on iOS 9! That's it for iOS 8!
Just my thoughts.
 
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I am having the same problems with the iPhone 6, everything is more fluid, but once the music app is running... It is just terrible, and when the songs are switching the phone just crawls...
 
davidjmedeiros said:
I am having the same problems with the iPhone 6, everything is more fluid, but once the music app is running... It is just terrible, and when the songs are switching the phone just crawls...
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I don't see how this is some random issue for a few users. Unless people aren't noticing it. I'd love to know what makes us so special that only our divices on this forum are acting up.
 
jonnyb098 said:
I don't see how this is some random issue for a few users. Unless people aren't noticing it. I'd love to know what makes us so special that only our divices on this forum are acting up.
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The problem is general, but i bet most people are not using the music app for more than 10 minutes when the stuttering starts, and this seems to only occur on newer devices, (6/6+ and Air 2). It has already been reported on another forums, sooner or later will be noticed by the rest. Let's hope that Apple will solve this.
 
Anyone having issues with multi-tasking or app switching? When I double click the home button I have to wait almost 30 seconds before the phone becomes responsive again. Nothing works.
 
Cobold said:
I am quite shocked how bad iOS 8.4 (especially Safari and the new Music app) runs on the iPad Air 2. I mean: Hello?!? This is by far the most powerful iOS-device yet! On the iPhone 6 however I feel it runs quite good...


I don' believe there will be another iOS-8-update like 8.4.1 or something. All iOS-devs now focusing on iOS 9! That's it for iOS 8!
Just my thoughts.
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Then iOS 8 was truly the WORST Apple iOS version there ever was!!! Period. It's to bad the the betas of iOS 9 aren't any better (yet).

We need iOS to feel and perform like iOS 6 again.
 
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davidjmedeiros said:
The problem is general, but i bet most people are not using the music app for more than 10 minutes when the stuttering starts, and this seems to only occur on newer devices, (6/6+ and Air 2). It has already been reported on another forums, sooner or later will be noticed by the rest. Let's hope that Apple will solve this.
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Someone else said it was happening on their 5s.
 
I've been listening to music about 20 minutes now and haven't noticed any issues. Is there anything that you folks have had to do to tickle the bug? I'm wondering if it's a specific configuration that causes it (extremely large music library? Apple Music turned on?) I have Apple Music and iCloud Music turned off so maybe the problem is with that functionality?

I'm boggling that Apple wouldn't test this functionality before release.
 
zorinlynx said:
I've been listening to music about 20 minutes now and haven't noticed any issues. Is there anything that you folks have had to do to tickle the bug? I'm wondering if it's a specific configuration that causes it (extremely large music library? Apple Music turned on?) I have Apple Music and iCloud Music turned off so maybe the problem is with that functionality?

I'm boggling that Apple wouldn't test this functionality before release.
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The fact you have that all turned off makes me wonder......but honestly this is a cloud service they just launched.........sooooo yeah.
 
jonnyb098 said:
The fact you have that all turned off makes me wonder......but honestly this is a cloud service they just launched.........sooooo yeah.
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I turned it off because I like to have a strong division between "music I rent" (Spotify in my case) and "music I own" (the Music app and stuff I sync from iTunes)

Yes, I'm an odd one I know.
 
Due to the massive amount of people downloading iOS 8.4 from the servers, there may be a chance that you downloaded the update with a few corrupted files. I suggest you wipe your phone, or re download the update clean on iTunes.
 
AmazingTechGeek said:
Due to the massive amount of people downloading iOS 8.4 from the servers, there may be a chance that you downloaded the update with a few corrupted files. I suggest you wipe your phone, or re download the update clean on iTunes.
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Already did that on my iPad last night to see if there was an issue. Same problems creep up after minutes or hours of use. And I'm a little tired of that reasoning anyway. I did the same thing for Apple engineers before when there was a major bug with iPad multitasking gestures that got fixed as a line item in 8.2 months ago. Had to start from scratch and restore to prove to them they screwed up. Weeks of back and forth and two videos sent over before they acknowledged it.

I know they can't catch EVERY bug but ones that are obvious make me laugh....like oh the music app being used for a while has major issues or.....oh multitasking gestures dont work.
 
jonnyb098 said:
Already did that on my iPad last night to see if there was an issue. Same problems creep up after minutes or hours of use. And I'm a little tired of that reasoning anyway. I did the same thing for Apple engineers before when there was a major bug with iPad multitasking gestures that got fixed as a line item in 8.2 months ago. Had to start from scratch and restore to prove to them they screwed up. Weeks of back and forth and two videos sent over before they acknowledged it.

I know they can't catch EVERY bug but ones that are obvious make me laugh....like oh the music app being used for a while has major issues or.....oh multitasking gestures dont work.
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Interesting. I updated my Air 2 to 8.4 yesterday and am not experiencing those issues. The only thing I notice is the lock screen wait time and mild orientation lock, but no lag at all. Wonder what's going on...
 
To be clear. I did a fresh download of 8.4 last night on my computer and did a DFU restore to 8.4.

I also didn't sign up for Apple Music, and I turned off music in the cloud. It also doesn't have anything to do with a large library because when I did the restore, I didn't sync all of my music. Just one playlist.
 
Jayson A said:
To be clear. I did a fresh download of 8.4 last night on my computer and did a DFU restore to 8.4.

I also didn't sign up for Apple Music, and I turned off music in the cloud. It also doesn't have anything to do with a large library because when I did the restore, I didn't sync all of my music. Just one playlist.
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What settings do you have set up?
 
AmazingTechGeek said:
Due to the massive amount of people downloading iOS 8.4 from the servers, there may be a chance that you downloaded the update with a few corrupted files. I suggest you wipe your phone, or re download the update clean on iTunes.
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This makes no sense. I highly doubt the device would update if it had downloaded a semi-corrupt file.
 
Guys with iPhone 5: do you think it is more fluid on iOS 8.4 or 8.3?
 
newellj said:
Someone (not you, but maybe the person you quoted) needs to explain to me how digital files get to be only "semi-corrupt." :D
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that's my point. It's either corrupt or it's not. You can't download/open/use a corrupt file. Plus, it's not a corrupted file that causes bugs. It's issues in the code.
 
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I haven't got that particular bug, but I have got a few others for instance if I go back into the music app on the now playing screen, it's usually in the wrong orientation. I would give it some time. After all, :apple:Music is still sort of in beta, so an update should come.
 
newellj said:
Someone (not you, but maybe the person you quoted) needs to explain to me how digital files get to be only "semi-corrupt." :D
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Sometimes during file downloading, the receptors may "think" it properly downloaded a file when something went wrong, (perhaps due to the traffic on the apple servers)
 
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