The apps that lag might not be fully optimized yet for iOS 8 or iPhone 6/6Plus. My phone has been fine.
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iPhone 6+ Lag
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Before I took my iPhone 6 back I notice lag as well. I just remember that it happened during a game but the lag was rare. But I returned that phone for other issues.
I was actually here because I was thinking about getting a iPhone 6 plus but now I'm changing my mind yet again. This time of year is always the most difficult with so many phones coming out. But a iPhone having any lag is just not worthy to get when you have competitors that are cheaper and more feature packed. Thanks OP for helping me out. Guess it's back to the Note 4.
I was actually here because I was thinking about getting a iPhone 6 plus but now I'm changing my mind yet again. This time of year is always the most difficult with so many phones coming out. But a iPhone having any lag is just not worthy to get when you have competitors that are cheaper and more feature packed. Thanks OP for helping me out. Guess it's back to the Note 4.
I had some serious nasty bugs, crashes, lags, etc. when I first got my iPhone 6+.I had done an iCloud setup from my iPhone 5 backup when I first got the phone. I had so many issues that I went into the Apple Store with the full intent of returning it and going back to my iPhone 5.
I spoke with a Apple Genius and she had me reset my settings, but later I found that didn't really do anything. She also told me to restore my entire phone if that did not work. I didn't really want to do that because I would lose all my app settings.
What I ended up doing was after I reset all settings, I backed up my iPhone 6+ to iTunes with the clean device settings. I then did a restore to factory settings in iTunes. I then did a setup from the new iPhone 6+ iTunes backup.
I can now report that everything is working extremely fast, my iPhone 6+ is an amazing beast. No issues at all except for the occasional iOS 8 hiccup, but those only happen maybe once a day.
If you are having problems, I highly recommend resettingall settings,then running a backup of your phone to iTunes, and then do a factory reset through iTunes to see if the new factory set phone works better for you. If it does, do a restore from you new iTunes backup that you just made and I'll bet your phone will work out 100x better.
I spoke with a Apple Genius and she had me reset my settings, but later I found that didn't really do anything. She also told me to restore my entire phone if that did not work. I didn't really want to do that because I would lose all my app settings.
What I ended up doing was after I reset all settings, I backed up my iPhone 6+ to iTunes with the clean device settings. I then did a restore to factory settings in iTunes. I then did a setup from the new iPhone 6+ iTunes backup.
I can now report that everything is working extremely fast, my iPhone 6+ is an amazing beast. No issues at all except for the occasional iOS 8 hiccup, but those only happen maybe once a day.
If you are having problems, I highly recommend resettingall settings,then running a backup of your phone to iTunes, and then do a factory reset through iTunes to see if the new factory set phone works better for you. If it does, do a restore from you new iTunes backup that you just made and I'll bet your phone will work out 100x better.
Ha ha, I guess no one has experienced that. I'm just glad it's working better now. I didn't really change anything. I backed up to iCloud and updated 74 apps.
I'm going to be traveling soon and now I'm really looking to getting a phone very very soon, maybe even when I'm on the road and by an apple store heh I don't know.
Do you all think the lag is bad enough where you would pass on the phone and get a regular 6 or some other phone?
The bend **** has me already freaked out and now this.
Do you all think the lag is bad enough where you would pass on the phone and get a regular 6 or some other phone?
The bend **** has me already freaked out and now this.
Then the 6 is for you. After all your worried about something you don't have. Not sure how to look at it, but get the one that you feel is the "safe bet".
It's the safe bet but it's the boring one. Tiny screen, would go for it if it was like 5 or 5.2 for sure.
Eh, I use my phone 90 percent webbrowsing media etc. I like one handed use but I don't know, I feel like I would get even more out of the bigger screen.
But like I said worried about this supposed lag and also worried about bending.
Like I said worried over something you don't have. Pretty sad. Go with the safe bet man.
It's actually not that plain and simple. The 6 Plus has a higher resolution, higher ppi, and has to downscale to fit the 1080p screen. That takes work. A lot of work.
I write software for iOS. There is no 'optimize' for iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, aside from the assets that you include for your UI. Also, iOS 8 is *a lot* more taxing on the CPU than iOS 7. You can benchmark this in Xcode.
Good points. I would like to think that it can be optimized. The a7 handles it fine on the iPad Air, so the downscaling is most likely the culprit? Hopefully this can be fine tuned.
Thanks for the valuable input!
I tried them both in an Apple Store, and I kind of think the iPhone 6+ is the future of iPhones once all the Apps will take advantage of the bigger screen size.
However, I think this year's model is just not there yet. It does seem a bit more stuttery than the regular iPhone 6 and it also gets warm pretty quick (at least it seemed like it). Also, I dont really get why the 6 Plus is thicker and has bigger bezels than the regular sized 6. If anything - shouldn't it have thinner bezels?
That downscaler is nasty aswell. It just smells a lot like compromised. I dont like the concept of a virtual resolution. Just seems like they could not stick in the real 2208 × 1242 . I am pretty sure future models will feature it.
I was really intrigued by the form factor of the 6 Plus. However, I think I will pass this round and wait for the mature product. This is like the iPad 3 in a lot of ways. This year ill go with the regular 6.
However, I think this year's model is just not there yet. It does seem a bit more stuttery than the regular iPhone 6 and it also gets warm pretty quick (at least it seemed like it). Also, I dont really get why the 6 Plus is thicker and has bigger bezels than the regular sized 6. If anything - shouldn't it have thinner bezels?
That downscaler is nasty aswell. It just smells a lot like compromised. I dont like the concept of a virtual resolution. Just seems like they could not stick in the real 2208 × 1242 . I am pretty sure future models will feature it.
I was really intrigued by the form factor of the 6 Plus. However, I think I will pass this round and wait for the mature product. This is like the iPad 3 in a lot of ways. This year ill go with the regular 6.
That's pretty much how I feel about it. I was really looking forward to the 6 Plus, but I do not like the approach that Apple took. I would've preferred a native rendering resolution. In the mean time, I returned the Plus, and just ordered a regular 6. Hopefully, the next iteration of the phone will have the kinks worked out.
*Yawn*
Nope. I'm good. My device doesn't have to downscale. Your's does.
It's a HARDWARE fault. I don't know why it's so difficult to comprehend that... The 6 doesn't lag because it doesn't have to DOWNSCALE EVERYTHING IT DISPLAYS. The Plus does.
So yes, you are absolutely right, your Plus can jitter and stutter like an elderly person on a dance floor, and no matter how hard I try I can't get the 6 to. It can absolutely do something the 6 cannot. Bravo?
I doubt it'll be keeping anyone with a 6 up at night, but for those with a plus? If you're happy with a brand new device that does that, it says more about your standards than it does about anyone else's insecurity.
Insecurity is not pointing out an obvious flaw in a device. By your logic, Apple fanboys are all jealous of the laggy Android OS, or the plastic phones that run them. They aren't.
But keep telling yourself that
*Yawn*
Nope. I'm good. My device doesn't have to downscale. Your's does.
It's a HARDWARE fault. I don't know why it's so difficult to comprehend that... The 6 doesn't lag because it doesn't have to DOWNSCALE EVERYTHING IT DISPLAYS. The Plus does.
So yes, you are absolutely right, your Plus can jitter and stutter like an elderly person on a dance floor, and no matter how hard I try I can't get the 6 to. It can absolutely do something the 6 cannot. Bravo?
I doubt it'll be keeping anyone with a 6 up at night, but for those with a plus? If you're happy with a brand new device that does that, it says more about your standards than it does about anyone else's insecurity.
Insecurity is not pointing out an obvious flaw in a device. By your logic, Apple fanboys are all jealous of the laggy Android OS, or the plastic phones that run them. They aren't.
But keep telling yourself that
Wow... Nice. Way to over exaggerate. There goes credibility.
I have both phones. Both lag, but barely. It's software... Not hardware most likely. iOS 8 is a mess.
*Yawn*
Nope. I'm good. My device doesn't have to downscale. Your's does.
It's a HARDWARE fault. I don't know why it's so difficult to comprehend that... The 6 doesn't lag because it doesn't have to DOWNSCALE EVERYTHING IT DISPLAYS. The Plus does.
So yes, you are absolutely right, your Plus can jitter and stutter like an elderly person on a dance floor, and no matter how hard I try I can't get the 6 to. It can absolutely do something the 6 cannot. Bravo?
I doubt it'll be keeping anyone with a 6 up at night, but for those with a plus? If you're happy with a brand new device that does that, it says more about your standards than it does about anyone else's insecurity.
Insecurity is not pointing out an obvious flaw in a device. By your logic, Apple fanboys are all jealous of the laggy Android OS, or the plastic phones that run them. They aren't.
But keep telling yourself that
My rMini, iP6 and iP6+ all lag on iOS 8. Must be all devices are defective.
I experienced this with my iPhone 5s. The first week I had it, terrible lag. Sometimes it wouldn't even swipe from one home screen to the next. I was planning to return it, but didn't have time to make it to the store the first week. Then it just seemed to go away and has been great for the past year.
My theory is the phone is doing a lot of background tasks when you first get it (e.g. spotlight indexing, "disk" TRIMing, etc.)
Could updating OTA have cause a problem? Plus was running fine prior to 8.0.2. It's terrible now, scrolling is worse than on my brothers s3
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Opposite with me. More I've used it, worse it is. When I scroll fast, not bad, but when I scroll slower. It jerks and jitters. Not what I want from a $800 phone. My 5 runs better
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Opposite with me. More I've used it, worse it is. When I scroll fast, not bad, but when I scroll slower. It jerks and jitters. Not what I want from a $800 phone. My 5 runs better
*Yawn*
Nope. I'm good. My device doesn't have to downscale. Your's does.
It's a HARDWARE fault. I don't know why it's so difficult to comprehend that... The 6 doesn't lag because it doesn't have to DOWNSCALE EVERYTHING IT DISPLAYS. The Plus does.
So yes, you are absolutely right, your Plus can jitter and stutter like an elderly person on a dance floor, and no matter how hard I try I can't get the 6 to. It can absolutely do something the 6 cannot. Bravo?
I doubt it'll be keeping anyone with a 6 up at night, but for those with a plus? If you're happy with a brand new device that does that, it says more about your standards than it does about anyone else's insecurity.
Insecurity is not pointing out an obvious flaw in a device. By your logic, Apple fanboys are all jealous of the laggy Android OS, or the plastic phones that run them. They aren't.
But keep telling yourself that
Oh, I pointed out, except I did so accurately and went further to point out I have features you don't. You should watch the media event, you appear to be unfamiliar with the added features. Is it true what they say? Is ignorance really bliss?
The only time I seem to be able to reproduce 'lag' 100% of the time is when I go into the Settings to change my wallpaper. Scrolling through the Apple default wallpapers creates a noticeable jittery effect.
Anybody else experience this?
Anybody else experience this?
Actually, that the iPhone 6 Plus downsamples is very interesting. It removes the aliased look from fonts, too. Some video games do this to *improve* image quality, fyi.
Just tried it out on my girlfriend's iPhone 6 plus and can confirm the lag on choosing wallpapers.
I've used her iphone for web browsing though and haven't noticed any lag when switching tabs though. Gruber claimed to have seen lag when loading tabs on his review model but I can't reproduce that on ours.