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iOS 8.4 Terrible Lag

Apple really needs to test these new features more before pushing them out. I mean, they want us to use these features, but if they're buggy and cause problems then we are going to turn them off, and most likely never go back to turn them on again later on after the problems are fixed.

First impressions are a big deal in the software world. Hell, I still have transparency that was introduced in iOS 7 off on my phone even though the performance issues have likely been fixed by now!
 
Can someone else please try going into restrictions and disabling Apple Connect. Make sure you quit Music.app after. After I did this on my iPad, i couldn't re-produce the problem. Even after stress-testing the Music app (closing, opening a lot, switching lots of songs, picking different artists, different views, opening and closing the mini player a lot). I can usually get it to slow down, but it just wouldn't slow down after I completely turned off Connect.

FYI, turning off Connect is different than just simply not automatically following artists.
 
Jayson A said:
I was using the new Music app on the way home from work (using Bluetooth in my car) and I noticed that the entire phone had a 2 second lag between doing anything like switching apps, hitting the home button, tapping an icon. Everything seemed like there was a massive delay. I restarted my iPhone and it seems to be working now, but is anyone else having this kind of lagging? I've never seen my iPhone behave so slow before.

Could it be that there's a memory leak in the new music app?
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Happening on my iPhone 6 and iPad Air 2 too
 
Jayson A said:
Can someone else please try going into restrictions and disabling Apple Connect. Make sure you quit Music.app after. After I did this on my iPad, i couldn't re-produce the problem. Even after stress-testing the Music app (closing, opening a lot, switching lots of songs, picking different artists, different views, opening and closing the mini player a lot). I can usually get it to slow down, but it just wouldn't slow down after I completely turned off Connect.

FYI, turning off Connect is different than just simply not automatically following artists.
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It's still crap even with connect off. Slow and stuttery
 
Listened to music on my 5S using Apple music for a couple hours. As soon as I went to my music and played songs the lag returned. You guys wanna try NOT using your collection for a bit then listening to your music to confirm???
 
jonnyb098 said:
Listened to music on my 5S using Apple music for a couple hours. As soon as I went to my music and played songs the lag returned. You guys wanna try NOT using your collection for a bit then listening to your music to confirm???
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This isn't going to work for me because I have no interest in Apple Music for the time being.
 
I had the music app lag with my iPhone 5S and iPad Air.

Since I turned off Connect in the Settings - General - Restrictions, the lag has gone away.

It seems that the music app lag is related to Connect somehow. I would suggest all to turn Connect off!
 
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MacOSXAddict said:
I had the music app lag with my iPhone 5S and iPad Air.

Since I turned off Connect in the Settings - General - Restrictions, the lag has gone away.

It seems that the music app lag is related to Connect somehow. I would suggest all to turn Connect off!
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That was the first thing I did and I haven't seen any lag. I thought I was experiencing additional skipping on my locally stored music but I have determined that to be location specific.
 
adamhenry said:
That was the first thing I did and I haven't seen any lag. I thought I was experiencing additional skipping on my locally stored music but I have determined that to be location specific.
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Is there a way to prevent Music.app from using internet (wifi and cellular)? Even with Connect off, I still see the network thing spinning up in the corner.

Edit: I signed out of my apple account in Music.app and the thing still spins. What the heck. Why does it need to access the internet to play songs locally on my device?
 
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Go to Music settings and disable Show Apple Music.
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That doesn't make a difference. I tried turning off everything but wifi and the network spinner still spins every time I open Music.app.

The only way to prevent Music.app from connecting to the internet is to turn off wifi.
 
Jayson A said:
That doesn't make a difference. I tried turning off everything but wifi and the network spinner still spins every time I open Music.app.
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I'm not sure then. When I open Music, I get the spinner for ~1 sec. and then it turns off and I never see it come back on. Are you using Match and ITL?

ETA: Have you turned off Automatically Follow Artists?
 
adamhenry said:
I'm not sure then. When I open Music, I get the spinner for ~1 sec. and then it turns off and I never see it come back on. Are you using Match and ITL?

ETA: Have you turned off Automatically Follow Artists?
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Not using match. Not even signed in.
Automatically follow artists was off before I signed out.
 
So I finally went ahead and started the AM free trial today. I added a couple dozen tracks to a playlist on my iPhone earlier today, and am just now picking up the iPad to use Music some more.

First off, even after turning iCloud Music Library on, and toggling it a few times, after an hour or so only 14 of the 63 songs I added to the iPhone Apple Music playlist have appeared.

Also, to the OPs credit, I literally JUST ran into the lag bug, and immediately had an AHA! moment...lol. So that pretty much confirms the memory leak, or whatever is happening, is a direct correlation between using Apple Music, and having any pending music/libraries syncing from iCloud Music Library.

Even now, an hour later, still only 15 songs have synced out of the 63 showing in the library on my iPhone. I made one Apple Music playlist just to test it out. Haven't even bothered to open iTunes on the Mac yet, as I have a ton of unmatched songs that will have to be uploaded still, probably creating even more trouble.

Lastly, I decided to snap a quick video of the lag, just as the OP did...ONLY because, if you notice...no music is even playing when this happens...there isn't even a song paused...which is absolutely mind bending! No matter what app you switch into, including the home screen, there's tremendous lag for about 2-3 seconds.

Oh, and has anyone noticed free space being used up on the iPhone? I have a 16GB 6, with about 1.5GB free at all times so I can shoot videos if necessary...but earlier while adding songs to the Apple Music playlist ( or making them offline) I got the 'running out of space' message. Oddly enough, under Usage, Music is at the bottom of the list, as I have no actual music on my iPhone. Been digging around the threads for a topic on this...but anyway, Jayson - you're not crazy after all ;)

 
mconk said:
So I finally went ahead and started the AM free trial today. I added a couple dozen tracks to a playlist on my iPhone earlier today, and am just now picking up the iPad to use Music some more.

First off, even after turning iCloud Music Library on, and toggling it a few times, after an hour or so only 14 of the 63 songs I added to the iPhone Apple Music playlist have appeared.

Also, to the OPs credit, I literally JUST ran into the lag bug, and immediately had an AHA! moment...lol. So that pretty much confirms the memory leak, or whatever is happening, is a direct correlation between using Apple Music, and having any pending music/libraries syncing from iCloud Music Library.

Even now, an hour later, still only 15 songs have synced out of the 63 showing in the library on my iPhone. I made one Apple Music playlist just to test it out. Haven't even bothered to open iTunes on the Mac yet, as I have a ton of unmatched songs that will have to be uploaded still, probably creating even more trouble.

Lastly, I decided to snap a quick video of the lag, just as the OP did...ONLY because, if you notice...no music is even playing when this happens...there isn't even a song paused...which is absolutely mind bending! No matter what app you switch into, including the home screen, there's tremendous lag for about 2-3 seconds.

Oh, and has anyone noticed free space being used up on the iPhone? I have a 16GB 6, with about 1.5GB free at all times so I can shoot videos if necessary...but earlier while adding songs to the Apple Music playlist ( or making them offline) I got the 'running out of space' message. Oddly enough, under Usage, Music is at the bottom of the list, as I have no actual music on my iPhone. Been digging around the threads for a topic on this...but anyway, Jayson - you're not crazy after all ;)

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Thanks for the video. I can't believe more people aren't complaining about this. Back in the day, when someone saw the slightest hint of a stutter somewhere in iOS, there'd be a 40 page thread about it. Now-a-days nobody gives a crap.
 
I got a brand new Air 2 64GB and updated from iOS 8.1 to 8.4 using OTA after unboxing. No signs of lag or anything else (only Microsoft Word for iOS crashes after startup).

However, I updated my iPad Mini Retina 128GB (with cellular) and the Music app is useless. None of the MP3s that played fine under iOS 8.3 plays normal. Playback stutters, skips random through the track or even plays some seconds of completely different tracks in the same library. And when the app is active all other things on the iPad lag terribly, just like shown in the videos. So I'm sure the MP3s are fine, they played well before the update and still do in other apps like Traktor DJ or Algoriddim Djay 2.
 
Jayson A said:
Thanks for the video. I can't believe more people aren't complaining about this. Back in the day, when someone saw the slightest hint of a stutter somewhere in iOS, there'd be a 40 page thread about it. Now-a-days nobody gives a crap.
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This. I have the exact same opinion here. I've been an iOS user since 2012 and iOS 6 and I have never complained so much about iOS than before iOS 8. This version is piece of crap, it have lags and stutters everywhere but still most of users doesn't give a **** about that. I'm buying those expansive Apple's products to have a perfect quality not a piece of crap OS that sometimes looks like Android running on a cheap 512mb RAM device.
 
Jayson A said:
Thanks for the video. I can't believe more people aren't complaining about this. Back in the day, when someone saw the slightest hint of a stutter somewhere in iOS, there'd be a 40 page thread about it. Now-a-days nobody gives a crap.
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Right! I spent quite a bit of time on the iPad tonight playing with Music.
Sleurhutje said:
I got a brand new Air 2 64GB and updated from iOS 8.1 to 8.4 using OTA after unboxing. No signs of lag or anything else (only Microsoft Word for iOS crashes after startup).

However, I updated my iPad Mini Retina 128GB (with cellular) and the Music app is useless. None of the MP3s that played fine under iOS 8.3 plays normal. Playback stutters, skips random through the track or even plays some seconds of completely different tracks in the same library. And when the app is active all other things on the iPad lag terribly, just like shown in the videos. So I'm sure the MP3s are fine, they played well before the update and still do in other apps like Traktor DJ or Algoriddim Djay 2.
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iCloud Music Library is off by default. Only after turning this on did I encounter the lag issues.
 
mconk said:
Right! I spent quite a bit of time on the iPad tonight playing with Music.

iCloud Music Library is off by default. Only after turning this on did I encounter the lag issues.
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I don't have any of my music in iCloud and I experienced the lag. However, the lag is greatly reduced by turning Apple Connect off in Restrictions, but even with all online features off, the network loading symbol still spins for a second or 2 every time you open music.
 
Jayson A said:
Thanks for the video. I can't believe more people aren't complaining about this. Back in the day, when someone saw the slightest hint of a stutter somewhere in iOS, there'd be a 40 page thread about it. Now-a-days nobody gives a crap.
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Plenty of those types of complaints here. Not everyone has these issues though, and out of those that might, depending on the degree of it all, not everyone notices them, and even out of those that do notice them, again depending on the degree, not everyone cares enough about something like that.
 
This has started happening to me today after using Apple Music since day 1. It's very noticeable when switching to the next song in my library.

iPad Air 2
 
Something I've noticed - my iPhone 6 Plus seems to be running quite smoothly. On my iPad Air 2, the music app is nearly unusable when using the wireless network at home or my office - but if I use my iPhone hotspot to tether the iPad, suddenly music runs smooth as butter. So it's either something in the OS having to do with wifi OR Comcast is causing some major problems or a hardware issue. Can't seem to figure out what else would be causing this. On the phone with Apple Care as we speak.
 
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Something I've noticed - my iPhone 6 Plus seems to be running quite smoothly. On my iPad Air 2, the music app is nearly unusable when using the wireless network at home or my office - but if I use my iPhone hotspot to tether the iPad, suddenly music runs smooth as butter. So it's either something in the OS having to do with wifi OR Comcast is causing some major problems or a hardware issue. Can't seem to figure out what else would be causing this. On the phone with Apple Care as we speak.
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Wow I was having the same issue on my Air 1, I just used my iPhone 6 (runs great on it) as hotspot and the music app actually works on the iPad ! So that's really weird, and I've tried different wifi connections here in Mexico, anyway Apple needs to release an iPad patch in immediately... Thanks
 
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