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iOS 8.4 Terrible Lag
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Emailed Craig Federighi. He's replied to me before so I'll see if he responds again.
To be honest, I've only experienced the slow wake. Otherwise everything else feels like 8.3.
My 6 Plus remains at 8.3, and it may stay there forever. I only have 8.4 on my iPad Air 2 because i just bought it 2 weeks ago, and it was 8.4 or 8.1, so i went ahead and updated because the iPad is my 3rd most important Apple device behind my MBP and my 6 Plus, and i did not think that 8.4 would suck so bad on Apple's most powerful mobile device. Tim Cook and the new Apple taught me a valuable lessson about hastily updating the OS on any of my Apple devices these days, and wouldn't you know it...the one device i updated to the most recent OS is the device i get burned on...once again, thanks Apple.
It's hard to trust updates anymore.
I notice that scrolling through my music is choppy. Just got my new iPhone 6 yesterday and went with the update. Not digging this.
They're still there just not quite as bad. Slow wake isn't as slow but it's still there and the music app lag is there just toned down a bit.
I've been playing music on my iPad (8.4.1) for about an hour now and I still can't get it to slow down. Also, I have Apple Music and Connect turned on.
Yes it's not so much after time rather than how much you poke around the app. The less you actually interact with the music app the longer it takes to lag and slow down with all the stuttering many have.
For example. I've had the app going most of the night and interacted with the app only to switch playlists and search for a few things. Now at the end of the night exiting and entering the music app is a total lag fest. It's a classic memory leak issue that bogging everything down for up to 5 seconds at a time.
So overall in 8.4.1 it still happens just takes a little longer. I used to be able to get it to lag in less than 30 minutes.
On iPad Air 2 here. I expect more from the flagship iOS device (in terms of power )
So I decided to update my iPhone 6 to 8.4.1, after seeing how well my iPad was doing. Guess that was the wrong thing to do because now my iPhone 6 lags. What a bummer. Does iOS 9 do this?
Upgraded to iOS 9 PB3 this morning on my iPhone 6. Much better.
Guess I'll be staying on this for a while. I doubt they're gonna bother fixing 8.4.
If anyone's on the fence about iOS 9. It feels more polished than iOS 8.4. It's a nice upgrade. Doesn't really seem glitchy or beta-like.
Guess I'll be staying on this for a while. I doubt they're gonna bother fixing 8.4.
If anyone's on the fence about iOS 9. It feels more polished than iOS 8.4. It's a nice upgrade. Doesn't really seem glitchy or beta-like.
Yep, I have updated my iPhone to 8.4.1 and the slowness persists.
Clicking next song, pause, play, using volume button and need to be pressed a few times for the iPhone to "wake up" and then the phone returns to its normal self. (iPhone 5).
Removed home sharing, made the music app worse, and slow.
Thanks Oba.. I mean Apple.
Clicking next song, pause, play, using volume button and need to be pressed a few times for the iPhone to "wake up" and then the phone returns to its normal self. (iPhone 5).
Removed home sharing, made the music app worse, and slow.
Thanks Oba.. I mean Apple.
Relieved to be on 8.3. Mind you, there's no Home Sharing on that, either.
Just to let you guys know. iOS 9 (PB3) seems to have completely removed the lag that you're all experiencing. I had 8.4 and 8.4.1 and I know what the lag is like and now that I'm on 9.0 (for the 3rd day now), I haven't experienced any lag. It's running great. I actually kinda wish I could just stay on 9.0 PB3 forever.
Hopefully, PB4 or GM doesn't introduce bugs though.
Hopefully, PB4 or GM doesn't introduce bugs though.
Thats a breath of fresh air. I hope you're right. There will only be one more beta before the GM....which should be this week. The GM should drop the week of Sept 7 with their event.
Yup this is exactly my experience with my 6 on 8.4. The lag always happens after you have been interacting with the app after a certain amount of touches and opens and closes. So this same lag is really present in 8.4.1?
I went back to 8.4 to keep the door open for jailbreaking. I went up to 8.4.1 briefly but my phone seemed a little bit slower and hesitated doing simple things sometimes just opening messages and phone app and my Touch ID was acting finicky on the homescreen. So I didn't play around with the music app as much in that time to see if the lag still happened.
So here I am on 8.4 and really everything else works perfectly fine just that darn music app acting up after awhile! Close it and reopen it and it's gone! I'm really surprised no one caught this in the beta phase since it's so easy to replicate. Someone should show this to a genius and maybe they could get the message to higher up people on the apple chain. It's really not that huge of a deal since the lag ends and everything goes back to normal within a few seconds but it's just so obvious that it's annoying it wasn't fixed!
Its still present in 8.4.1 just not quite as bad. iOS 8 in general is proof of how horrible Apple's software QA team is. iOS 8 has some great advancements but just loaded with little bugs, especially on iPads.
So its my conclusion their iPad software QA process is as follows....."Does the app open?"....."Yes Sir"......"GREAT, SHIP IT!"
In all seriousness though, I can point to so many little areas of the iPad version of iOS 8 that feels glitchy or even opo-over menus that just feel "wrong" or not where they should be. Not holding out that much hope for iOS 9.