iPhone 6 Plus Lag/Issues Compared to iPhone 6

[sunking101]

The plus should never overshadow the regular size. The "regular" size has been the flagship forever, so once you start forcing people into spending $100 more for the true flagship, they will get mad. Especially since they will need to deal with a screen size that could potentially become inconveniently large.

That being said, I don't think they should have identical specs. The plus size should be *just* enough more powerful to perform the same.

Once they squeeze 2GB of RAM into the iPhones, there won't be as many issues. 2GB of RAM in both devices alone would fix a ton of things. (I've heard iOS 8 caches the animations in the RAM, so that would fix a ton of lag issues) If they clocked the plus just a bit faster to deal with the pixels, on top of the extra RAM present in both phones, things would work perfectly. I'm pretty sure this sort of thing will happen with the 6S series.

Yes, I'm sure the 6S+ will be everything the 6+ should have been and it's a reminder to everyone that the S cycle is the one to be on. I haven't had an 'S' phone since the 3GS but have surely learnt my lesson with the 6+. Apologists can say all they like but for me the 6+ was incorrectly specced out of the box and six months later they still haven't managed to fix the issues with software updates. Sure it's a good phone in certain respects but has such glaring flaws which render it a PITA.

 

[CEmajr]

Just came back from a long road trip over the weekend with the 6 Plus.

During the drive I had Google Maps open and the Music app playing in the background. People were occasionally sending me text messages that I had Siri read.

I have to admit I was shocked to see how much the phone shuttered and lagged when switching between these two apps. Google Maps even closed outright several times and I had to reload the route. A couple of times the music app had refreshed and sent me back to the iTunes radio screen. I think it's safe to say that Apple should give higher specs to the larger iPhone model from now on. I didn't have this sort of stuttering with the 6.

 

[gardiboy]

My Iphone 6 keeps reloading apps....argh

 

[itouch rulz]

both the same

I've had a 6 since launch day and recently won a 6+ in a competition.

I've been using the 6+ for the last 3 weeks to see if I like it.

There is no difference between them when operating on the same version of iOS (obviously except for bigger screen, better battery life and better camera on the 6+). No difference in lag, app restarts, stability, wifi or anything else.

I didn't think I'd like the 6+ and never considered buying one but I've found I really like it and probably won't go back to the 6 now. For completeness, I note that I've never noticed it to be too large carrying it in a suit jacket or jeans pocket.

 

[gardiboy]

Just came back from a long road trip over the weekend with the 6 Plus.

During the drive I had Google Maps open and the Music app playing in the background. People were occasionally sending me text messages that I had Siri read.

I have to admit I was shocked to see how much the phone shuttered and lagged when switching between these two apps. Google Maps even closed outright several times and I had to reload the route. A couple of times the music app had refreshed and sent me back to the iTunes radio screen. I think it's safe to say that Apple should give higher specs to the larger iPhone model from now on. I didn't have this sort of stuttering with the 6.

OP - I suggest closing all apps and only opening the ones that you need to reduce the lag

 

[HEK]

Before you go the RAM route, or feel overly disapointed try this. Turn on reduce motion and reduce transparency. Did wonders for me and don't miss them especially with the smoothness I now have.

Believe these features are cause of hesitation in the 6 Plus because of how screen is processed and rendered. All images are processed with more pixels than are rendered to screen. This extra step in the 6 Plus only along with pushing higher pixel count and the extra processing with motion and transparency are the cause for hesitations.

Give it a try, easy to turn on and off. Added benefit is even better battery life. It improved my experience which were not so bad to complain about in any case.

 

[duffman9000]

Before you go the RAM route, or feel overly disapointed try this. Turn on reduce motion and reduce transparency. Did wonders for me and don't miss them especially with the smoothness I now have.

Believe these features are cause of hesitation in the 6 Plus because of how screen is processed and rendered. All images are processed with more pixels than are rendered to screen. This extra step in the 6 Plus only along with pushing higher pixel count and the extra processing with motion and transparency are the cause for hesitations.

Give it a try, easy to turn on and off. Added benefit is even better battery life. It improved my experience which were not so bad to complain about in any case.

We shouldn't have to change default settings. If the phone struggles with default settings then it's apple's fault, not ours.

 

[sunking101]

We shouldn't have to change default settings. If the phone struggles with default settings then it's apple's fault, not ours.

Indeed. Default settings that iPhones from two years ago managed with no issue.
The trouble is, these problems *are* our problems. You've paid Apple now and they have moved onto developing new products. The 6 and 6+ are old news. iOS8 is halfway through its lifecycle and these bugs are unlikely to be fixed now. If they were going to be fixed they would have been. They may even be hardware issues.

 

[XTheLancerX]

Indeed. Default settings that iPhones from two years ago managed with no issue.
The trouble is, these problems *are* our problems. You've paid Apple now and they have moved onto developing new products. The 6 and 6+ are old news. iOS8 is halfway through its lifecycle and these bugs are unlikely to be fixed now. If they were going to be fixed they would have been. They may even be hardware issues.

iOS 9 could possibly come to the rescue?? Also awhile back iPhone 4S was spotted with iOS 9, and if iOS 9 was a bug fix and performance update, A5 devices would most likely be brought along. Also, iPod 5 and iPad mini are still being sold, if they weren't getting iOS 9 they likely would have been discontinued by now.

 

[businezguy]

I have to agree with what's being said here. The iPhone 6 plus is a good phone but there is noticeable lag. I just took the advice above and reduced motion and transparency and my phone performs so much better. What I suspect is Apple planned on using a screen with a higher resolution but it wouldn't be available in enough quantity so they went well the the screen that ships now and did a software trick/screen rewrite.

Hopefully the 6s plus won't be such a compromise. The 6 plus shouldn't have been in the first place.

 

[HEK]

We shouldn't have to change default settings. If the phone struggles with default settings then it's apple's fault, not ours.

I never said you had to. I suggested something I had found somewhere in an article that worked for me. Of course on all other phones no one ever alters or changes features to suit themselves. They keep everything stock. Because everyone like you, knows that having features that can be turned on or off to suit is a problem. No one ever jailbreaks or turns off touch whiz **** on other phones.

I have a car that has multiple electrical features, if they are all on at once, the alternator doesn't have enough capacity to keep up. So therefore car is a big fail. NOT. What it means is everything engineered have a series of compromises. If the processor were a bit faster, if the screen didn't do a conversion for each frame, if the motion effect and see through pull downs were never thought of, all the ifs. In the perfect world with the perfect engineering by the perfect company I would have a phone that lasted a year on a charge, recharged in five minutes, and would have the computing power of a Cray. That way I could see even more ads and commercials over and over. If you want to complain about something, complain about that. Soon we will have one piece of content for every two pieces of advertising.

Well I won't bite from that poisoned apple. I dare say you would be first person to complain that Apple didn't do their job if those switches were not incorporate in the software.

Most people don't turn them off and don't notice any hesitations. Me, I like the fastest smoothest experience possible and get nothing from parallax effects and see through pull downs. In fact after the first five minutes I found motion annoying. Transparency annoyed me as it muddied up what I was viewing. Once I read it ate up processing and battery I turned them off. In the next iPhone 6s Plus the even faster processor will be able to handle it. But I will still turn them off.

So for you, I hope your next phone comes packed with features you don't want, can't use, find annoying, and can't turn off.

 

[dogg]

Thought I would resurrect this thread for an update. have a launch day plus 128gb variant and up till very recently a launch day 6 128gb as well. both running side by side there was no doubt there were differences. I had transparency/reduce motion off and on respectively. However still lags on animation, scrolling through pictures etc... Safari however is my biggest gripe. Reloads constantly. My 6 however did not display this. Both running on 8.3 which did help but still not as well aeon the 6.

So for the people experiencing the lag issues are we any further forward? Are new units some how miraculously fixing the issues? What about Safari reloads?

 

[HEK]

I have definitely noticed some lag with my iPhone 6+, but it's not a deal breaker. The screen is beautiful and I prefer the larger size of it compared to the 6. Sometimes I notice lag while typing in Messages with other apps open, but my main issue is with Safari constantly telling me it ran into an error and needs to reload the webpage. Like another poster said, this happens even with 1 or 2 tabs open. It seems to me like this is more of a software than hardware issue, so I am hoping this will be fixed in future iOS updates.

Turn reduce motion and transparency on and see if that helps. It Improved my lag issues. Scrolling very smooth. Didn't do anything for the occasional Safari reloads. I see the Safari reloead on my iPad Air Original as well. Doesn't seem to make difference if one or more tabs open. I notice the reload on 8.1, 8.2, and 8.3. Seems random as to what I am doing. Recovers quickly and usually not a big deal unless I am filling something out or deep within layers.

 

[nagromme]

My 6+ crashes every few minutes if I put too many apps on it (somewhere in the high hundreds). I believe the larger-res home screen doesn't have enough memory once it has too many icons to deal with, and so the home screen itself is crashing and boot-looping.

If they don't have enough RAM, then they need to cache icons to storage, or something—a software fix should be possible, and it's long overdue. But as of iOS 8.3 this still seems to be an issue. A shame: even though 100 apps is plenty for most days, I do want to have my big game collection back! Smaller iPhones seem to handle the same number in iOS 8 just fine, so I think it's a RAM/graphics issue.

(If more cacheing meant more lag in some cases, I'd actually accept that for the sake of stability!)

With fewer apps installed, I do love this phone and the size, and wouldn't want to go smaller! And it feels super fast.

 

[duffman9000]

I never said you had to. I suggested something I had found somewhere in an article that worked for me. Of course on all other phones no one ever alters or changes features to suit themselves. They keep everything stock. Because everyone like you, knows that having features that can be turned on or off to suit is a problem. No one ever jailbreaks or turns off touch whiz **** on other phones.

I have a car that has multiple electrical features...

Another bad car analogy is bad. You keep forgetting and/or ignoring that Apple is turning certain features on by default and the 6+ seems to struggle with these features on. Should we also talk about "multitasking" when Jobs famously said users shouldn't have to think about it? In real world use, iOS struggles with it's fake multitasking.

 

[mpavilion]

Copy and paste is broken.

I started a reply to this thread on my 6 Plus and switched tabs to copy a link. I copied first with the share button. When I return to the forum tab, it reloads so any text is lost. I paste and it pastes an order number I copied earlier. [...]

Wow – until this post, I didn't know you could copy a link via the Share button! I've been tapping the address bar for 2+ years...