iPhone 6 Plus Lag/Issues Compared to iPhone 6

[sunking101]

What is your angle? You've said this multiple times?......Same antics as someone else here....And you're example is not only an uncommon occurrence but ridiculous to say the least.




Seems when one posts so does the other. This has been more than once. Starting to make sense. Hmm....

Since you feel the need to keep on, so will I about recommending that you dump your 6 plus for an Android. There's nothing wrong with the Note 4. Oh, but you refuse to do that huh? Is it because you won't have a reason to be here anymore?

Yes, how on earth could two people possible be disappointed with their 6+. It must be a conspiracy!

 

[BigMcGuire]

I'm torn between the two Zoom views. Is there any speed difference between one or the other? Better battery life ? Or pretty much a non issue even though less resolution.

 

[HenryDJP]

Yes, how on earth could two people possible be disappointed with their 6+. It must be a conspiracy!

Exactly, especially when the same information gets hammered over and over by the "same" "two" people about the 6 Plus. But it's okay though. I guess when you have an agenda taking people's advice about switching phones and/or platforms to help solve YOUR problem is simply out of the question. Just know that, "WE" know what's up.

 

[cababah]

I'm torn between the two Zoom views. Is there any speed difference between one or the other? Better battery life ? Or pretty much a non issue even though less resolution.

No performance difference but you can't use the zoomed mode in landscape. That was the deal breaker for me.

 

[sunking101]

Exactly, especially when the same information gets hammered over and over by the "same" "two" people about the 6 Plus. But it's okay though. I guess when you have an agenda taking people's advice about switching phones and/or platforms to help solve YOUR problem is simply out of wthe question. Just know that, "WE" know what's up.

In my opinion, based upon over three months of ownership, the 6+ is a lemon. Yes it has a bigger screen, better battery life, a better loudspeaker and it opens websites a bit quicker, I dare say it is better for playing games too, but the basic functionality is worse than my two generations older iPhone 5. It can't keep apps and browser tabs in memory without them refreshing, the screen frequently freezes for 10-30 seconds, websites crash, apps crash and there are numerous bugs in iOS8. The phone is a major disappointment to me.

Why don't I buy an Android device? Well having owned iPhones for over five years, there are other considerations to be made. I am locked into an ecosystem, I have many paid for apps, and I'm very used to iOS. I want an iPhone that performs well, not an Android device. Don't get me wrong, I'm millimetres away from switching but I haven't made my mind up if I'm going to limp along with the 6+ until the 6S is released. Like I said, there are other considerations. Financial too. I have never been so close to jumping ship though.

 

[BigMcGuire]

In my opinion, based upon over three months of ownership, the 6+ is a lemon. Yes it has a bigger screen, better battery life, a better loudspeaker and it opens websites a bit quicker, I dare say it is better for playing games too, but the basic functionality is worse than my two generations older iPhone 5. It can't keep apps and browser tabs in memory without them refreshing, the screen frequently freezes for 10-30 seconds, websites crash, apps crash and there are numerous bugs in iOS8. The phone is a major disappointment to me.

I'm not sure if this is related but I thought I'd share my experience. My first 6+ 128GB that I got a month ago would have lockups frequently, apps would crash (close) enough to be noticeable, and I had at least two blue screens that resulted in a complete power down. Biggest complaint I had was the lockup during scrolling. Anyway, the phone finally red screened on me this week and wouldn't power on. --- my replacement 128GB 6+ has none of these problems. I haven't had any noticeable lag, no blue screens, no app crashes, and no lag while trying to scroll.

My wife's 6+ 128GB is also perfect - no lag, no bluescreens, no app crashing.

I realize it's hardly scientific but just my observations.

Coming from a 3GB Note 3 - I agree that the iPhone 6+ 128GB (a $1000 phone) should have had more ram just for the price alone. Still the 6+ seems so much faster, lighter, quicker than my Note 3 ever did (even rooted with an ASOP as possible rom). I can type full speed on my 6+ - something I could never do on my Note 3. Camera speed difference is a HUGE thing for me since I take tons of pictures.

 

[HenryDJP]

In my opinion, based upon over three months of ownership, the 6+ is a lemon.

You do understand that a LEMON means it's defective right? Your screen freeze complaints have been mimicked by possibly 2 other people here. My 6 Plus screen has NEVER froze. If you don't want to believe that then that's your problem because most people here have stated their 6 Plus screen is not freezing.
The rest of your issues are about a lack of ram causing page refreshes. That doesn't qualify a product as a lemon. That is a design concern that affects YOU.

Your well planned out post about why you haven't switched to Android due to the fact that you have a lot of vested iOS software and "locked" into an ecosystem.......but then you state that you're "millimeters" away from switching. Yeah Right! Get your story straight.

People come to MR to share ideas and help. Who exactly are you helping by trashing the iPhone 6 Plus daily? And don't deny you're not trashing it because you just called it a Lemon.

Most people that have an issue they will post it once and possibly respond to other's replies, but you float around to every thread posting the same stuff over and over about the 6 Plus, especially in threads that have no relevance. I can find those posts if you like?

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I have never been so close to jumping ship though.

No one is stopping you. I don't have a vested interest in making sure Apple keeps customers.

 

[sunking101]

You do understand that a LEMON means it's defective right? Your screen freeze complaints have been mimicked by possibly 2 other people here. My 6 Plus screen has NEVER froze. If you don't want to believe that then that's your problem because most people here have stated their 6 Plus screen is not freezing.
The rest of your issues are about a lack of ram causing page refreshes. That doesn't qualify a product as a lemon. That is a design concern that affects YOU.

Your well planned out post about why you haven't switched to Android due to the fact that you have a lot of vested iOS software.......but then you state that you're "millimeters" away from switching. Yeah Right! Get your story straight.

People come to MR to share ideas and help. Who exactly are you helping by trashing the iPhone 6 Plus daily? And don't deny you're not trashing it because you just called it a Lemon.

Most people that have an issue they will post it once and possibly respond to other's replies, but you float around to every thread posting the same stuff over and over about the 6 Plus, especially in threads that have no relevance. I can find those posts if you like?

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No one is stopping you. I don't have a vested interest in making sure Apple keeps customers.

I never post where irrelevant, and that's a fact. If posts keep popping up about lag and RAM then I will comment. I never start threads about this and never have. So it is not me perpetuating these threads. You seem to have an aversion to any criticism of Apple. I do note with interest when people post about having no issues, but I have been to the Apple store with my phone and it tested ok. The genius even said that his 6+ had similar problems and that it would be cured with an update. My friend also has a 6+ and he has the same issues that I do, so I don't know what to believe. Either we have defective devices, and so does the Apple genius, or other people just don't use their devices enough or in a certain manner for the issues to show up. All I know for sure at this point is that my own 6+ is a major disappointment.

 

[HenryDJP]

I never post where irrelevant, and that's a fact.

I'm bored of all the bugs and 'it just works' BS.
iOS8 will never be fixed meaning that the 6+ is a write off due to insufficient RAM and a crap o/s.

Congrats! You just gave the word FACT a new meaning. To you it means "Reality Distortion Field". The OP wanted to know if anyone else was bored with the fact that Apple had not added any new functionality to the iPhone 6 plus. You spouted off with a bunch of complaints about issues you're having. That was hardly the post topic. Don't make stuff up.

If posts keep popping up about lag and RAM then I will comment.

Even when they haven't you still have and still do.

I never start threads about this and never have.

You certainly don't need to since you post the same information in every iPhone thread.

You seem to have an aversion to any criticism of Apple.

Yeah, you're favorite tired line to me daily. You won't find ANY posts of me backing up Apple. It's just that you can't stand anyone having a positive experience with their 6 Plus, so you return the reply as calling them Apple fanboys, liars or saying they don't use their phone as much as you use yours.

I do note with interest when people post about having no issues, but I have been to the Apple store with my phone and it tested ok. The genius even said that his 6+ had similar problems and that it would be cured with an update.

Ah yes, you're genius hearsay that you constantly post. You have zero proof that he said that so please stop using that as a defense.

My friend also has a 6+ and he has the same issues that I do...

Yes, you've told us that too over and over......however I have 6 friends that have 6 Pluses and all have great experiences. And???

All I know for sure at this point is that my own 6+ is a major disappointment.

Well then move on to Android phone. Anyone that has as many complaints as you have over and over wouldn't tolerate it. This forum is very vocal about Apple's products. Maybe your money isn't important to you but if I were unhappy I would get rid of the phone......or as I said once again.....is the real reason you're not moving on to Android is because you won't have a reason to continue
on with your mission to put out negative info about the 6 Plus? Hmm?

 

[technosix]

iOS 8 is just buggy overall, and I've noticed it's even buggier on these new devices.

Control Center is very hit and miss when trying to access it on my 6+.

If I didn't love Apple so much after years of true enjoyment with Macs, early iPhones and iPads, it wouldn't be so incredibly frustrating, maddening, disappointing and downright aggravating.

Thinking positively and celebrating Apple's long overdue migration to modern size displays, I pre-ordered both an iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. Physically beautiful and well designed everything was excellent until I booted them up. Then I got hit hard by the slap of reality. A dismal, buggy, crash prone IOS 8 that to this date is still a very poor reflection on Apple.

Yet the message is clear... Apple is not about to fix it till they get darn good and ready. A supremely arrogant position. Yet sadly, completely normal for Apple Circa 2015.

 

[5105973]

I never post where irrelevant, and that's a fact... The genius even said that his 6+ had similar problems and that it would be cured with an update. My friend also has a 6+ and he has the same issues that I do, so I don't know what to believe. Either we have defective devices, and so does the Apple genius, or other people just don't use their devices enough or in a certain manner for the issues to show up. All I know for sure at this point is that my own 6+ is a major disappointment.

Sunking check out this thread on the IPad forum:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1851568/

Do you think this might apply in any way to the problems you're experiencing on your IPhone 6 Plus? The thread is about lag caused due to apps being bunched into too many folders on the home screens. I do indeed organize my apps into folders, even more so than I ever bothered to do on my previous IPhone.

As I mention to you on another thread, my husband and I have identically specced IPhone 6 Plus phones right down to color and carrier. I have some degree of oddness similar to what you've described in various threads and my husband does not.

He also tends to lean toward app based interfacing with web vendors and news and magazine and blog sites. I tend to interacting via Safari, which seems to open me up to increasingly intrusive hijacking of my phone (forcing me to the App Store) by ad sponsors on these sites. If you're method of shopping and research is similar to mine, perhaps we are opening ourselves to problems in ways that folks who work with their devices differently do not.

 

[ann713]

Is anyone experiencing keyboard lag/freeze when typing a message, as other message notifications are coming in (from the top). I'm having this issue with an iPhone 6. The whole keyboard would just freeze as I'm typing.

 

[C DM]

You do understand that a LEMON means it's defective right? Your screen freeze complaints have been mimicked by possibly 2 other people here. My 6 Plus screen has NEVER froze. If you don't want to believe that then that's your problem because most people here have stated their 6 Plus screen is not freezing.
The rest of your issues are about a lack of ram causing page refreshes. That doesn't qualify a product as a lemon. That is a design concern that affects YOU.

Your well planned out post about why you haven't switched to Android due to the fact that you have a lot of vested iOS software and "locked" into an ecosystem.......but then you state that you're "millimeters" away from switching. Yeah Right! Get your story straight.

People come to MR to share ideas and help. Who exactly are you helping by trashing the iPhone 6 Plus daily? And don't deny you're not trashing it because you just called it a Lemon.

Most people that have an issue they will post it once and possibly respond to other's replies, but you float around to every thread posting the same stuff over and over about the 6 Plus, especially in threads that have no relevance. I can find those posts if you like?

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No one is stopping you. I don't have a vested interest in making sure Apple keeps customers.

Given that his particular phone seems to have more issues than a typical one it does fit in with what a lemon would be (and there can certainly be various other ones like it out there too, whether its to some bad batch, some sort of TLC vs MLC issues, or something else).

 

[HenryDJP]

Given that his particular phone seems to have more issues than a typical one it does fit in with what a lemon would be (and there can certainly be various other ones like it out there too, whether its to some bad batch, some sort of TLC vs MLC issues, or something else).

He's not stating that HIS phone is a lemon, he is stating that the iPhone 6 Plus in general is a lemon. If you had been following his posts of calling people Apple apologists and calling them liars when they say they are not experiencing HIS issues then you would've understood that he wasn't referring only to HIS phone being a lemon.

 

[Hot12345]

I never post where irrelevant, and that's a fact. If posts keep popping up about lag and RAM then I will comment. I never start threads about this and never have. So it is not me perpetuating these threads. You seem to have an aversion to any criticism of Apple. I do note with interest when people post about having no issues, but I have been to the Apple store with my phone and it tested ok. The genius even said that his 6+ had similar problems and that it would be cured with an update. My friend also has a 6+ and he has the same issues that I do, so I don't know what to believe. Either we have defective devices, and so does the Apple genius, or other people just don't use their devices enough or in a certain manner for the issues to show up. All I know for sure at this point is that my own 6+ is a major disappointment.

What problems you have then? Could you tell me.

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Is anyone experiencing keyboard lag/freeze when typing a message, as other message notifications are coming in (from the top). I'm having this issue with an iPhone 6. The whole keyboard would just freeze as I'm typing.

Bring it back, call applecare, tell them you got sevrels reboots on a day (you dont have it) but with that agrument they will swap your device for a new one.

 

[Gav2k]

Is anyone experiencing keyboard lag/freeze when typing a message, as other message notifications are coming in (from the top). I'm having this issue with an iPhone 6. The whole keyboard would just freeze as I'm typing.

Yes it's an iOS 8 bug not a device issue. I can replicate it on all my devices

 

[Max(IT)]

Given that his particular phone seems to have more issues than a typical one it does fit in with what a lemon would be (and there can certainly be various other ones like it out there too, whether its to some bad batch, some sort of TLC vs MLC issues, or something else).

Oh, we are saying he have a lemon since the beginning.... But he doesn't acknowledge that and still insist every iPhone 6+ must be like his.
Otherwise you are just a dumb user, using your device for texts and phone calls only......

 

[Max(IT)]

You do understand that a LEMON means it's defective right? Your screen freeze complaints have been mimicked by possibly 2 other people here. My 6 Plus screen has NEVER froze. If you don't want to believe that then that's your problem because most people here have stated their 6 Plus screen is not freezing.
The rest of your issues are about a lack of ram causing page refreshes. That doesn't qualify a product as a lemon. That is a design concern that affects YOU.

Your well planned out post about why you haven't switched to Android due to the fact that you have a lot of vested iOS software and "locked" into an ecosystem.......but then you state that you're "millimeters" away from switching. Yeah Right! Get your story straight.

People come to MR to share ideas and help. Who exactly are you helping by trashing the iPhone 6 Plus daily? And don't deny you're not trashing it because you just called it a Lemon.

Most people that have an issue they will post it once and possibly respond to other's replies, but you float around to every thread posting the same stuff over and over about the 6 Plus, especially in threads that have no relevance. I can find those posts if you like?

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No one is stopping you. I don't have a vested interest in making sure Apple keeps customers.

Applause #

I'm so tired of the same exact post about his iPhone 6+, app and tabs refreshing, how better the iPhone 5 was.... And so on...

It's perfectly acceptable to complain about a product that doesn't fulfill your expectations. But when you post the same thing over and over on every single thread for months, well, that's not complaining.
You are just trying to downplay the iPhone for your agenda.

 

[Max(IT)]

I never post where irrelevant, and that's a fact. If posts keep popping up about lag and RAM then I will comment. I never start threads about this and never have. So it is not me perpetuating these threads. You seem to have an aversion to any criticism of Apple. I do note with interest when people post about having no issues, but I have been to the Apple store with my phone and it tested ok. The genius even said that his 6+ had similar problems and that it would be cured with an update. My friend also has a 6+ and he has the same issues that I do, so I don't know what to believe. Either we have defective devices, and so does the Apple genius, or other people just don't use their devices enough or in a certain manner for the issues to show up. All I know for sure at this point is that my own 6+ is a major disappointment.

You posted about ram on threads where we were speaking about something totally different....
Your isn't criticism.
Your is an holy war. A crusade.

 

[sunking101]

He's not stating that HIS phone is a lemon, he is stating that the iPhone 6 Plus in general is a lemon. If you had been following his posts of calling people Apple apologists and calling them liars when they say they are not experiencing HIS issues then you would've understood that he wasn't referring only to HIS phone being a lemon.

C DM is a forum regular, I'm sure he has been following posts.
Some people are happy with their phones and aren't outraged when others aren't.

 

[HenryDJP]

C DM is a forum regular, I'm sure he has been following posts.
Some people are happy with their phones and aren't outraged when others aren't.

LMAO! I'm outraged by your posts??? You're giving yourself too much credit. You're powerless.

You can't seem to ever stop trashing the 6 Plus daily and calling people liars or Apple apologists for disagreeing with you. Typical. And since you stated that C DM is a regular and follows posts (which I already know that) then you just admitted that he knows that you consistently trash the 6 Plus often.

YOU are stating the 6 Plus is a lemon period. C DM was saying you felt YOURS was a lemon based on your experiences. Nothing could be further from the truth. You're trying to spread FUD by telling people all around MR iPhone forums that the 6 Plus is trash. So yes, everybody that follows forums (Such as Myself) knows that you can't just speak your peace and just move on like everyone else.

Is there a reason why you couldn't have just spoken your peace once and moved on? What are you gaining by saying the same thing over and over daily?

A broken record repeats itself until it's agenda is filled.

 

[sunking101]

LMAO! I'm outraged by your posts??? You're giving yourself too much credit. You're powerless.

You can't seem to ever stop trashing the 6 Plus daily and calling people liars or Apple apologists for disagreeing with you. Typical. And since you stated that C DM is a regular and follows posts (which I already know that) then you just admitted that he knows that you consistently trash the 6 Plus often.

YOU are stating the 6 Plus is a lemon period. C DM was saying you felt YOURS was a lemon based on your experiences. Nothing could be further from the truth. You're trying to spread FUD by telling people all around MR iPhone forums that the 6 Plus is trash. So yes, everybody that follows forums (Such as Myself) knows that you can't just speak your peace and just move on like everyone else.

Is there a reason why you couldn't have just spoken your peace once and moved on? What are you gaining by saying the same thing over and over daily?

A broken record repeats itself until it's agenda is filled.

I contribute in relevant threads. What is stopping you from disagreeing once and moving on?

 

[AppleRobert]

Tried 6 tabs opened yesterday in Safari at different times yesterday at different places using LTE and Wifi switching, opening and scrolling around websites. No problems on my Plus whatsoever.

 

[HenryDJP]

I contribute in relevant threads. What is stopping you from disagreeing once and moving on?

I call people out for posting nonsense and trying to fulfill their agendas.

 

[AppleRobert]

There are millions out there sold. I do not discount certain ones having issues but I never read anything whereby the percentage was high. I would have returned my Plus within 14 days if there were issues.