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iOS 8.4 Terrible Lag
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should have done research before upgraded to 8.4 from 8.2 on my iphone 6plus.
Not really having the music lag everyone is talking about, but am having MAJOR lag with the touch screen.
I was doing a fresh restore and the screen wouldnt even let me swipe the welcome screen to set the phone up.
finally I could get through it after letting the phone sit a few minutes. phone would respond to home button and sleep button, but would not react to the touch screen.
I tried 3 times restoring from my macbook pro, then I also tried to restore using my windows machine thinking it may have been a glitch. still the same problem.
the other day I was waiting on my doctors office to open and i was listening to a pod cast through my blue tooth setup in my car. i tried switching podcast on my phone and the screen would not respond, but hitting the forward button on my radio in the car, the phone switched without a problem. was able to duplicate the issue several times.
So, i am convinced my issue seems to be more of a touch screen lag than anything. the phone worked flawlessly before the upgrade.
after a day or two of living with it and missing calls because swiping to answer wouldnt work, the problem seemed to stablilize. now it seems to be getting worse again.
I also have a 2nd gen ipad mini that I did an OTA update and it doesnt have the problem.
Not really having the music lag everyone is talking about, but am having MAJOR lag with the touch screen.
I was doing a fresh restore and the screen wouldnt even let me swipe the welcome screen to set the phone up.
finally I could get through it after letting the phone sit a few minutes. phone would respond to home button and sleep button, but would not react to the touch screen.
I tried 3 times restoring from my macbook pro, then I also tried to restore using my windows machine thinking it may have been a glitch. still the same problem.
the other day I was waiting on my doctors office to open and i was listening to a pod cast through my blue tooth setup in my car. i tried switching podcast on my phone and the screen would not respond, but hitting the forward button on my radio in the car, the phone switched without a problem. was able to duplicate the issue several times.
So, i am convinced my issue seems to be more of a touch screen lag than anything. the phone worked flawlessly before the upgrade.
after a day or two of living with it and missing calls because swiping to answer wouldnt work, the problem seemed to stablilize. now it seems to be getting worse again.
I also have a 2nd gen ipad mini that I did an OTA update and it doesnt have the problem.
I don't think it's touch screen lag. It's because of the lag that the screen won't respond to your touches. Like something is processing in the background and won't register your touch until it's done.
I believe you're experiencing the same lag we are. It's ridiculous.
If your computer was chugging away on something and you're clicking your mouse trying to open something, but it's too busy to open it, would you think your mouse broke?
i would agree with you 100%, but when my phone wasnt responding, my bluetooth connection was controlling my phone just fine. I could change podcast fine using my radio that was connected to my phone via bluetooth, then absolutely no response trying to change podcast with my phone.
I would think if the phone itself was running out of memory or something that was bogging it down, then controlling it via bluetooth, it should have had the same lag.
Not necessarily. I could still control my music through my car stereo even while the music app wasn't responding (or respond my slowly). The process that plays the music itself may not be the issue. The issue may have to do with the music app instead.
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Don't you have to be within some range of something that can do AirPlay for it to show up?
I guess people just dont use Apple Music for any length of time. Since its all I can use at work (everything else is blocked) Using it for any length of time causes an unusable experience of complete lag. Hitting the home button even brings up siri sometimes because it was interpreted as along hold of the home button when trying to wake the screen. Goes hand in hand with the whole iPad waking lag.
It sucks and it seems like we're the minority. Most people are perfectly happy with iOS 8.4
maybe 8.4 screwed up my phone. I upgraded to 9.0 beta 4 to see if the lag was corrected and so far its no better. I swear I had absolutely ZERO issues before upgrading to 8.4
. gonna give this a few more days to see if the phone is "indexing" and if it doesnt correct itself I will be making an hour drive to my nearest apple store so they can warranty out my phone.
. gonna give this a few more days to see if the phone is "indexing" and if it doesnt correct itself I will be making an hour drive to my nearest apple store so they can warranty out my phone.
That's what I did after I phoned them. They remotely downloaded my phones diagnostic report and could see a multitude of errors incl 25 drop calls in 5 hours.
8.4 completely screwed my iPhone 6 so they had to replace it. Luckily this one is on 8.3 and is great again. There is no way I'm updating again.
8.4 completely screwed my iPhone 6 so they had to replace it. Luckily this one is on 8.3 and is great again. There is no way I'm updating again.
8 pages, I guess I'm not alone.
Funny, the way it is looking I will not experience the fullest potential of my maxed out iPad Air 2 due to a year of a crappy iOS, soon to be followed by the designed debility of the next iOS in relation to older devices.
Funny, the way it is looking I will not experience the fullest potential of my maxed out iPad Air 2 due to a year of a crappy iOS, soon to be followed by the designed debility of the next iOS in relation to older devices.
8.4 is indeed slower, geekbench 3 shows it: on my 5s, the scores dropped by 20 on single core and 30 on multicore.
Off one test? Or did you run multiple times. Because won't there always be a variance every time?
i went to the apple store today. the "genius" didnt even want to see my video or try to duplicate the issue. he said has seen this issue before and it needed a new touch screen. asked if i would like to have my phone repaired or just replace the whole phone. (iphone 6 plus, still under warranty).
Since I drove an hour and had to wait 2 hours to be worked in, i opted for the new phone.
so far it works without any lag what so ever.
Since I drove an hour and had to wait 2 hours to be worked in, i opted for the new phone.
so far it works without any lag what so ever.
What OS did the new phone come with? If it came with 8.3, don't update to 8.4 or the lag will come back.
If it's already on 8.4, then just wait a bit, the lag will probably come back. I don't think there's anything wrong with your touch screen. It's 8.4. Why else would it be fine after downgrading back to 8.3?
it came with 8.4 .
still working flawlessly. Ever wonder if the factory installed file maybe different than the ones we have access to?
Yes, you are right but I did multiple tests: I rebooted the devices, turned off the wifi and closed all apps.
I notice nobody, not even the staunchest apologists, gave you a thumbs up on that comment.
And...virtually no one gave you one thumbs up on any of your other apologist-like replies in this thread. Your agenda is now transparent, IMHO. I think you may be the first person here that I block, because your replies almost never contribute to the discussion.And?
(Something to keep in mind: this appears to be all related to something from a month ago that suddenly gets brought up out of nowhere--and something that has already been even discussed and clarified a month ago, too--for no real reason aside from seemingly to set it up as "bait" at best. It certainly seems to imply an agenda, as you mention yourself, it just doesn't appear to be one that is on my part. Interesting how the very accusations that are being made much more clearly apply the other way around.)
So likes on posts relate to their validity or meaningfulness somehow? That's a rather "interesting" way of looking at things on forums. (And one that certainly works against your point if that view is used as far as a measure of contribution to discussions.)
As far as some sort of "apologist" and "agenda" tones, it's rather interesting when simply a realistic observation about something, which doesn't make any arguments one way or another--and in this case was mostly of offset a hyperbolic statement--gets twisted into something biased, usually related to the biases and agenda of those who are trying to read something into things that aren't there to begin with. Often says more about the people trying to read into things than about those things they are reading into.
As far as my posts "contributing", you are certainly free to decide for yourself what they are to you (along with any biases you would bring into it all), but I'm sure plenty of others have found something useful in many of them, as I have in many posts that I've come across. It's not even close to being most posts, but then again not all things that are said are supposed to be specifically helpful somehow as many things are simply part of an ongoing conversation.
That all said, seems like this aspect of it all is unrelated to the topic of the thread, so it doesn't seem like there's much use to stay on it and needlessly derail the thread.
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Most of this comes down to more of a subset of users that have learned to ignore or brush off things with Apples software. It isn't some weird coincidence that many on this thread can reproduce the lock screen wake delay and stuttering home screen lag and unresponsivness when exiting the music app on a range of devices. The one constant I've notice is the issues don't happen until you've been using the app for up to a few hours.
Let's keep on topic so that other can contribute. As of right now 8.4.1 beta 2 supposedly doesn't fix the slow wake on iPads.
Let's keep on topic so that other can contribute. As of right now 8.4.1 beta 2 supposedly doesn't fix the slow wake on iPads.