iPhone 6s Plus Opens Apps Slightly Faster Than iPhone 6 Plus

[Tubamajuba]

Today, people complain about the 6s Plus because there isn't a huge difference in app opening speed.

Next year when iOS 10 comes out people will say the regular 6 Plus is intentionally being crippled.

What those people don't understand is that almost every single iPhone to date (with the exception of the 3GS) doesn't feel too much faster at launch. As apps begin to take advantage of the newer hardware and iOS updates become more complex, the newer hardware starts to show its power.

Sometimes you have to take a step back and think about the situation before you complain.

And as someone else said, opening most current apps 70% faster results in almost no difference anyways. My 6 loads everything with no trouble whatsoever. Why would I expect to notice a huge difference with a new phone if everything I do with my phone is fast as is? That's exactly why the 3GS was such a monumental update- we used to wait far longer for apps to open than we do today. It's great to always want more... but sometimes it helps to put things in perspective by remembering where we came from.

 

[tkatz]

This is the most pointless test anyone can probably show, and I'm amazed at some of the replies here of people falling for it.

First, testing app launch? Really? Do you really base the speed of a device based on how fast it initially launches an application? Launch an app that taxes the cpu and gpu and then compare. I couldn't care less how long the apps launch (unless they take a really long time).

Second, network dependent apps, really? Loading a web page that has advertisements on it is also one of the worst things you can use as a test. Advertisements may change per page load. The verge example he used showed the 6s+ slower, but that could have been because of an ad server (or ad itself) that was serving up an ad slow. Poor test.

Again, show me a test with an app that taxes the cpu/gpu and then we can really judge the difference. (even then you would have to compare other things, for example if the app on the slower device has less stuff going on due to the lower specs, etc..).

Best thing to do is forget this pointless test and pretend you never saw it.

 

[AleXXXa]

I expected the 6S to be much faster. It's actually just as fast as my 6 on 8.4.1.

 

[Popeye206]

That's not a real world example. People just don't launch a ton of apps at the same time. What for?

I didn't say that... but people do tend to launch many apps leaving them running in the background. Besides... I was only outlining a better speed test to put strain on the processors and memory. Opening Maps is not a very good seed test when it opens instantaneously anyways.

 

[Keirasplace]

The apps he demonstrated loaded much faster on the 6S, as expected.

As a web developer, I shake my head whenever I see web pages used for benchmarking device performance; two identical requests could take vastly different amount of times to complete due to a multitude of variables: ISP connection, network congestion, DNS lookups, which servers handle the given request and their instantaneous load, which assets and ads are loaded, etc, etc.

If you want to test the browser, there are real benchmarks that preload everything to the device for consistent results.

Just the 40 different links to all those advertising networks is enough to slow things to a crawl sometimes. Advertising is the bane of good browsing. It can be usefull if loading something from an internal network from your own test server; then, you're truly testing the browser.

 

[Keirasplace]

Surprised. Barely any difference. "So much faster" is a joke.

Loading apps is not really a usefull metric unless your loading tombraider or something huge on your Iphone. Past a certain point even if it was much faster, you wouldn't really notice.

 

[HenryDJP]

This is the most pointless test anyone can probably show, and I'm amazed at some of the replies here of people falling for it.

First, testing app launch? Really? Do you really base the speed of a device based on how fast it initially launches an application? Launch an app that taxes the cpu and gpu and then compare. I could care less how long the apps launch (unless they take a really long time).

App launch speed is very important. When people are scrambling with limited time they need to get work done. Besides it's just plain annoying when apps or programs take long to launch. Just starring at the splash screen forever gets old fast.

Also, did you mean, that you COULDN'T care less? If not then you're counteracting your own point.

 

[lincolntran]

Well, color me slightly impressed.

Well, I will color you using my Apple Pen on my iPad pro.

 

[Max(IT)]

Walt Mossberg essentially lied/exaggerated with his review of the 6S saying its 'SO FAST!'. Sigh.

Here's proof of him lying:

He's not lying... The iPhone is really fast.... so was the 6+

Yes apps open much more quickly. The phone in general seems much faster

not much more quickly... Just a little bit.

Well duh.

That's what 2GB RAM and more powerful cores do.

Clickbait.

2 Gb of ram has nothing to do with a faster apps opening.

 

[BreuerEditor]

Do yourself a favor and mute the video. He says 'guys' about 417 times in 7 minutes.

 

[patseguin]

This is the first iphone release that I haven't had to have and probably won't. The camera and 3D touch are nice, but not worth the money for me. I'm holding for the iPhone 7.

 

[Kar98]

Boom! Magic!

 

[Max(IT)]

law of diminishing return...
what's 70% faster on 0.2s to open something..

the test should be done on some apps that takes maybe 10 seconds to open.

Open an app isn't a test bench for computational power dude.

I expected the 6S to be much faster. It's actually just as fast as my 6 on 8.4.1.

The iPhone 6 was already a fast smartphone, and so was the 5S.

Loading apps is not really a usefull metric unless your loading tombraider or something huge on your Iphone. Past a certain point even if it was much faster, you wouldn't really notice.

There's hope !
Here the demonstration that there is someone that can understand what computational power means!

 

[BMcCoy]

This is surely painting a picture of the 6s/6s+ as being nice revisions of the 6/6+ phones, fixing the problems and some tweaks and new features, but not the genuinely big leaps that the 4s and 5s were.
Along with the design of this series of iPhone that is fairly unanimously disliked, from the ugly antenna strips to the sticky-out camera lens.. I hope this is just a blip in the iPhone evolution..
I'll be sticking with my 5s for another year, but remain hopeful for a return to form and a better phone coming in the future.

 

[Zwhaler]

Lol this is one of the funnier headlines I've read at MacRumors.

 

[maflynn]

So the new phone opens apps slightly faster - really. Only slightly. Given the hype over the A9, I think anything with the wording of slightly would be a disappointment.

 

[CB1234]

Question to all of the 6s Plus owners: How are you going to spend your fraction-of-a-second-of-more-free-time?

They will spend that extra time, reading very carefully all the 'detailed and in depth' reviews at macrumors....

 

[locust76]

As a network admin, these side-by-side simultaneous comparisons of page loading over Wi-Fi drive me nuts. You can't simultaneously start a page load on two devices and expect reliable, reproducible results! It's one collision domain! If one phone is receiving, the other phone has to wait for the first phone to finish receiving before it can receive again. Same with sending. It's just not reliable! Best to time the page loads for each phone separately with a stopwatch or something and compare the times.

 

[WilliamG]

I was thinking of upgrading from my 6 but this video appears to show it's a very marginal difference and not worth it.

Under that use case with closing all apps down before running the next one... You're not seeing the benefits of 2GB RAM that way..

 

[MrGuder]

News flash technically speaking your brand new phone is all really outdated as a new bad boy is just around the bend.

 

[coffeemadmanUK]

I upgraded from the 6+ and the iPhone is noticeably faster at general tasks, at swiping between screens and into proactive, and into the app switcher. It has a fluid movement that my 6+, for whatever reason, didn't.

The Touch ID is lightning and frankly I don't even see the lock screen it reads my finger from the one click.

Wifi connections are much faster to connect. On the London Undrground the wifi in the stations connects almost instantly as the train pulls in whereas before it would take a while to connect.

I'm not a technical chap so I can into go from my personal experiences but I can tell you that for me, it's more than slightly faster. It's the first thing I noticed.

 

[Glideslope]

That was a horrible video. He complains about how slow his internet is at the end of the video but every app he opened has to download data using his internet connection.

Thank you. At least someone figured it out.

 

[lympero]

Slightly faster ? Wow!

 

[Act3]

I expected the 6S to be much faster. It's actually just as fast as my 6 on 8.4.1.

I just rolled mine back to 8.4.1 and you are correct. I opened my apps with his countdown in the video and they opened about the same time as the 6s+

 

[Wsidewarrior07]

So far my 6S+ has been sluggish, unlocking, opening apps, etc. I don't quite understand. I've already run the 9.0.1 update.