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iPhone 6 plus underpowered from the start and always will be?

i hope the new processor does well because i own a 6plus now and ill probably get a 6s just for the better performance
 
Kendo said:
A4 to A5, A5 to A6, A6 to A7 all had double CPU and double GPU. So it doubled regardless of S or non-S cycle. A7 to A8 only had 25% and 50% because the chip was designed for efficiency and only drew 50% of the power of the A7.
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You also have to consider the extra hardware features each phone carried, like a much power-hungry display on the iPhone 4, which makes for the somewhat "worse" experience.

Also, I believe the chips will now be less different from their older counterparts, since the processing power seems to be coming to a halt at this point.
 
I've reduced animations on iOS 8 and 9 with my 6 and 6 plus and the experience is so much better. Often the OS canT keep up with my speed
 
Gav2k said:
Honestly 9.1 has sorted my 6+ right out. No lag issues what so ever. I was shocked!
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Give it a few weeks. Every incremental update seems to solve major stuttering on mine, but after some time things get back to the normal stuttering town. It's almost as it's creating stuff that's making it stutter over time.
 
fiveainone said:
Give it a few weeks. Every incremental update seems to solve major stuttering on mine, but after some time things get back to the normal stuttering town. It's almost as it's creating stuff that's making it stutter over time.
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I know. It's just strange that after the focus on performance we are still no better off.
 
Never noticed any stutter on my 6+

Are you guys running 20 apps at once? The 6+ has been ultra smooth for me. but I guess I don't spend hours fixated on a screen look for stutter. I also haven't read a single professional review that said the 6+ stutters. User error?
 
warrior2000 said:
Never noticed any stutter on my 6+

Are you guys running 20 apps at once? The 6+ has been ultra smooth for me. but I guess I don't spend hours fixated on a screen look for stutter. I also haven't read a single professional review that said the 6+ stutters. User error?
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Not possible with iOS. You just don't notice dropped frames that much probably.
Try pulling spotlight down and then rotating the screen, for ex.
 
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Only issues I have right now with my 6+ is Chrome is buggy and Spotify hiccups every so often in the background when using other apps. I'm still on 8.3 and I fear upgrading my phone to anything newer than.
 
Always found in app performance to be perfectly fine on the 6+. However, I've noticed dropped frames during OS animations etc from the first day of ownership.

It's the increase in ram I'm most looking forward to though. My Air 2 is so much more stable and consistent due to not having constantly reload/refresh apps.

If the 6S had stellar battery life like the 6S+ I may have downsized, but I fear battery life will take a dip across the board this time - the 6S+ will still be great, whereas I fear the 6S will be like the bad old days of midday charging like the 5S. Can't go back to that.
 
yegon said:
Always found in app performance to be perfectly fine on the 6+. However, I've noticed dropped frames during OS animations etc from the first day of ownership.

It's the increase in ram I'm most looking forward to though. My Air 2 is so much more stable and consistent due to not having constantly reload/refresh apps.

If the 6S had stellar battery life like the 6S+ I may have downsized, but I fear battery life will take a dip across the board this time - the 6S+ will still be great, whereas I fear the 6S will be like the bad old days of midday charging like the 5S. Can't go back to that.
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That's a very good point, in app performance like graphic intensive games run really, it must just be iOS that is unoptimised.
 
There are constant hiccups with animations throughout iOS with both the 6 and 6+ more so on the + and these are not fixed in IOS 9 either. Hopefully the upgraded ram fixes this
 
Here's a repost of what I said about my piss-poor iPhone 6 Plus experience in another thread:

The RAM is the ONLY reason I upgraded. The 6+ has been a nightmare for me and it's mostly due to lack of RAM: Random resprings, random reboots, random app crashes, music skipping when I'm processing photos in VSCOCam/Pixelmator, reloading Safari pages, and heaven forbid if I'm typing something, switch away from the app, then switch back only to find what I had written is gone thanks to the app reloading into memory. Could have been the disaster that as been iOS 8, but this doesn't happen on my iPad Air 2.

Plus the 6 Plus seems slow to me. Now with 2GB of RAM and iOS 9 supposedly focus on optimizing and in combo with Touch ID, 5.5 1080p screen, Apple Pay, 3D Touch - the 6S Plus should be perfect.
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I'm convinced it's the RAM and Apple gimped the device. It's the worst iPhone I've ever owned.
 
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TommyA6 said:
Not possible with iOS. You just don't notice dropped frames that much probably.
Try pulling spotlight down and then rotating the screen, for ex.
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So in other words you need to go to great lengths to see it?

I did spolight and rotate and its running smoothly.
 
Razeus said:
Here's a repost of what I said about my piss-poor iPhone 6 Plus experience in another thread:



I'm convinced it's the RAM and Apple gimped the device. It's the worst iPhone I've ever owned.
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You probably have a defective phone
 
warrior2000 said:
So in other words you need to go to great lengths to see it?

I did spolight and rotate and its running smoothly.
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Don't go to proactive Siri. Use the old spotlight and then rotate. I'd like to see a video of your 6 Plus performing it smoothly at 60 fps.
 
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