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iPhone 6+ Lag
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Thank you! So do I. I hope to hear from them on Monday this way, iOS 8.1.1 will be pushed out with improvements for these devices. In fact, I encourage you to please call Apple and file a complaint about lag if you have it. It will help if engineering gets all these reports.
I hope they're able to. What I don't understand is this perception that Apple's iOS engineers are unaware of iOS 8 lag -- It's hard to imagine that they aren't keenly aware of it.
I'm sure they are, but it at least helps bring it into the light. Maybe they were trying to shove it under the rug? Idk but once a bug gets to engineering it usually gets solved pretty fast.
Great videos, exact same performance as I have on my iPad Air. I'm hopeful that 8.1.1 or whatever comes next will sort this out once and for all. While we have received 8.1 already, it's nowhere near as big an update as 7.1 was, which came much later into iOS 7's "cycle" and ironed out a lot of performance issues on iOS 7, especially on iPad.
Uh... what? I wasn't claiming nobody had lag, just that I, personally don't. If you have a look at some of my other posts, you will see that I complain about lag (and even crashing) at other times. My intentions surely wasn't to make you do anything, though I appreciate the effort. There is certainly lag there. I get a horrible lag and stutter when I swap a video, especially one already playing, into landscape.
After reading countless threads last night I have decided to keep my 6 and either sell or return my 6plus 64gb for att. It does seem to make send that the 6plus should have more RAM to compensate for the larger screen and all that it entails. I don't want another iPad 3 issue ( I also own an iPad 3) I'm sure they are saving the upgraded internals for the S version of the phone.
People spend a ton of money on something, they don't want to believe that the flaws in that product were just allowed to happen. That's my best guess as to why people are dismissive.
I am personally pissed. Considering the iPad Air (from many accounts, I don't have one) had this same issue, and has been this way for over a year now, I am not hopeful. The iPhone 6 plus is under powered for what it is, IMO. Just that simple.
You have to call into AppleCare and have them file a complaint with engineering because of lag, low RAM, crashing, whatever you have. They will then send a diagnostic to your phone which will gather your crash logs and they should get back to you within 2-4 days. It might also help to get a Senior Advisor to do this.
Number: (800) APL-CARE
Finally saw noticeable lag for the first time. The wallpaper screen, scrolling has lots of stutter. Not a deal breaker.
This lag is not exclusive to the 6+. My 6 stutters sometimes also, when i turn off transparency its fine. I'm confused as to why apple is not making the phone powerful enough to handle the transparency.
My guess is that more powerful chips aren't quite power efficient enough to where they could keep the same/better battery life.
Sorry. Didn't mean to imply it was exclusive. Was just saying that it was the first place I REALLY noticed it.
Very interesting. I would have bet on one or memory leaks. I used iOS 8 on a 5S until just last week. iOS 8 on my 6+ is just way buggier.
It's software related all the way.
Just look at how well 7 ran. There isn't much more going on to justify the performance drop.
I expect it will be the same situation as when iOS 7 came along. That wasn't all smooth and gracious when it landed, think people forget that.
An 8.2 (or whatever it is) will make the difference.
Just look at how well 7 ran. There isn't much more going on to justify the performance drop.
I expect it will be the same situation as when iOS 7 came along. That wasn't all smooth and gracious when it landed, think people forget that.
An 8.2 (or whatever it is) will make the difference.
Lag in pages app for iphone 6 plus
I have been regularly using pages on both my 4, 5 and my iPad 2 and iPad mini with retina display. I have now got a new iphone 6 plus and the phone works fine and all the apps work fine. But the pages app lags a lot. There is a long delay between typing on the keyboard and the words displaying on the screen. Even simple functions lag and the app has become unusable. I have not found this problem in any other app including numbers. I have only used up 30gb of my 64GB phone. I tried closing the app and reopening and also shutting down all other apps. I don't think this is a RAM problem as it has worked fine on all my other i-devices. Anyone else notice this problem?
I have been regularly using pages on both my 4, 5 and my iPad 2 and iPad mini with retina display. I have now got a new iphone 6 plus and the phone works fine and all the apps work fine. But the pages app lags a lot. There is a long delay between typing on the keyboard and the words displaying on the screen. Even simple functions lag and the app has become unusable. I have not found this problem in any other app including numbers. I have only used up 30gb of my 64GB phone. I tried closing the app and reopening and also shutting down all other apps. I don't think this is a RAM problem as it has worked fine on all my other i-devices. Anyone else notice this problem?
I'm thinking it is just a software glitch on the 6 and 6 Plus. I say this because look at the 5s and 5 on iOS 7.0.x. The 5 ran OK, meanwhile the 5s had bug after bug. Could just be the OS isn't fully optimized for the iPhone. This has also gotten me thinking that maybe Apple was planning on putting 2GB of RAM in, thus decreasing the need for a heavy compression engine for RAM. This would create extra battery life since it wouldn't have to constantly be compressing and decompressing.
Maybe there wasn't enough time to re-optimise the OS because another last minute decision was made to decrease the memory. Or, its entirely possible Apple's dev units had 1.5 or 2GB of RAM and the final production had 1GB. This has happened the past; a shining example would be the original Mac back in 1984. Most of the dev units inside Apple had 512KB of RAM while a last minute decision (either by the board or Steve I forget) bumped it down to 128KB.
I hope so. I would expect something like this to be really fully fixed until the early part of next year but Apple could surprise us. I really think 8.1 should have been 8.0.3 because all it really did was enable Apple Pay. 7.1 launched with a heck of a lot of bug improvements including a performance increase for iPhone 4. 7.1 launched after 7.0.6 in March 2014.
Point being here, iOS 7.0 got 5 improvements (5 because one was only for Chinese iPhones) before iOS 7.1 came out. iOS 8 got literally one. Yeah, sure it says 8.0.2 but really 8.0.2 is 8.0.1 repackaged to fix the issues with 8.0.1. If 8.0.1 hadn't taken the "phone" out of so many iPhone 6's, it would have gone: 8.0, 8.0.1, 8.1.
IMHO, Apple should have done iOS 7.5 with more bug improvements, optimization for iPhone 6/6 Plus, and possibly some of Continuity. Leave the new APIs, programing language and other underlying tune-ups until they were ready in iOS 8. Maybe hold off on 8.0 until March, or even June or Sept.
Maybe next time they will do a Public Beta of iOS. It seemed to be popular with OS X Yosemite and it seems to have paid off; Yosemite is probably Apple's most stable release of OS X since Snow Leopard.
I've got lag and poor battery life. The battery life didn't noticeably change until after 8.1 from what I can tell. The lag seems to be getting worse, but it could be just how often I use my phone. I notice it getting hung up on lots of things.
If it's a software issue , i hope they fix it really soon . This is the first apple product I have been unhappy with. I have had every iPhone since the first and have had no issues until now. Safari crashes are making me nuts 
I have no dealbreaking lag on my phone. And I've put it through the ringer. Only times I have noticeable lag is spotlight and maybe some updated apps, but even those aren't that bad. Some minor microstuttering when scrolling but nothing I'd consider annoying.