Well shame 10.1 didn't fix anything. I stopped by an ATT Store today and the 7+ display unit was also showing the same behavior. I booted up my 6S this evening and the lag is definitely not there but the mail scrolling lag is. I think I'll keep my 7 though, I really prefer the new "home button" compared to the 6S.
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iPhone 7/7+ iOS 10 app close animation
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I've looked at a few videos and... It doesn't seem that bad?
I wonder if most folks in this thread are just really hyper-sensitive to this. I've always considered myself annoyed by lag and stuttering and what I saw on Youtube didn't bother me.
Perhaps someone could post a video of this issue at 60fps? The YouTube videos I've seen are 30fps and that might hide the issue. I hope some of us who just got iPhone 7 units still have your previous phone to take a 60fps video with.
Also, again I didn't notice a problem with demo units in the store, but then maybe I wasn't paying attention.
I really want to upgrade damnit!
I wonder if most folks in this thread are just really hyper-sensitive to this. I've always considered myself annoyed by lag and stuttering and what I saw on Youtube didn't bother me.
Perhaps someone could post a video of this issue at 60fps? The YouTube videos I've seen are 30fps and that might hide the issue. I hope some of us who just got iPhone 7 units still have your previous phone to take a 60fps video with.
Also, again I didn't notice a problem with demo units in the store, but then maybe I wasn't paying attention.
I really want to upgrade damnit!
Really bummed out 10.1 doesn't fix this. I'm starting to fear I'll be living with this for months.
Funny that the 6S "unbutchered" single core beats the 7's butchered core (I don't know whether it beats both of them or just the one of the 2 low power cores)
We don't really know if the cores are to blame though.
It could just need some optimization. However, Apple usually makes sure their new devices are faster than their old ones. That's the real head scratcher here.
PS, the animation is flawless if you interrupt the opening animation by clicking the home button before the app has loaded. Explain that one.
Okay, that's the first quality video I see of this phenomenon.
Umm, it's no big deal. I'll be buying my 7 ASAP.
Okay, that's the first quality video I see of this phenomenon.
Umm, it's no big deal. I'll be buying my 7 ASAP.
Okay, I studied the video frame by frame and I think I see what's happening.
1. The first 8 frames of the video show a static wallpaper image behind the app screen shrinking animation.
2. The wallpaper starts to animate (on the 9th frame)
3. On frames 8 and 9, the shrinking app screen remains the same size (looking like a small pause in the animation)
3. Then, the entire animation skips ahead 2 frames while it zooms back to the home screen
4. The wallpaper lags behind everything else when the other animations finish (about 8 frames... probably to make up for it being 8 frames late at the beginning of the animation).
If they can get the wallpaper zoom to start at the same time as the app zoom-out, then I think the animation will look normal (like it does on literally every other iOS device running iOS 10)
[doublepost=1474517086][/doublepost]Can someone post a video of a non iPhone 7 device doing the animation to compare?
Now I'm curious... has anyone tried turning off the parallax effect to see if that makes a difference?
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Yes looks like the 7 loose one frame or it renders 2 frames together but this not happens every time you close an app, only sometimes. And to me this doesn't look like it slows down apps "closing time" but it's only a disease for our eyes. Just my opinion of course.
Anyway I don't know why you all are talking about "CPU cores", these animations are rendered by the GPU not CPU. I think is only something with the code that isn't optimized for the new GPU unit (yes it's inside CPU but is a different thing and it has 6 cores).
This is something like a glitch rather than a bug, for that is more complicated to fix but the solution will arrive, if you think to don't buy the 7 for that...I think you are crazy
Anyway I don't know why you all are talking about "CPU cores", these animations are rendered by the GPU not CPU. I think is only something with the code that isn't optimized for the new GPU unit (yes it's inside CPU but is a different thing and it has 6 cores).
This is something like a glitch rather than a bug, for that is more complicated to fix but the solution will arrive, if you think to don't buy the 7 for that...I think you are crazy
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And yet some very picky people about all kinds of iOS 9 and beyond things still consider iOS 8 as the standard to compare against.
The smoothness of ios is for apple very important. They told us on their website how fluid and smooth ios is. So i think they will fix this bug or glitch together with some other bugs in ios 10 very soon. There are so many people complaining about. Even in the apple website forum. Lets wait for max. 2 weeks and we will see
One thing I just noticed , it seems that during a phone call the lag doesn't appear , I was playing with my phone while talking on my bluetooth headset and I was surprised to see everything was smooth like butter (or like my 6s ) during that time....
Could someone else try and tell us what happens for him?
Could someone else try and tell us what happens for him?
I slowed these down by 50% to show the difference more clearly.
iPhone 6: http://imgur.com/e0rfHxA
iPhone 7: http://imgur.com/ejrGfnq
Notice how the wallpaper starts zooming too late on the iPhone 7?
Also, the iPhone 6 is one continuous motion with no interruptions and all the animations end at the same exact time.
iPhone 6: http://imgur.com/e0rfHxA
iPhone 7: http://imgur.com/ejrGfnq
Notice how the wallpaper starts zooming too late on the iPhone 7?
Also, the iPhone 6 is one continuous motion with no interruptions and all the animations end at the same exact time.
This is pretty interesting. It's pretty clear they're using a different scaling algorithm for the 7. I wonder why?
My own observations:
1) doesn't matter how I press the home button, the lag is still present
2) only present for the first or two app closing, subsequently fine.
Try opening and closing an app, let's say safari, for a few times. After the first or second time the animation is back to normal.
1) doesn't matter how I press the home button, the lag is still present
2) only present for the first or two app closing, subsequently fine.
Try opening and closing an app, let's say safari, for a few times. After the first or second time the animation is back to normal.
No. The lag is EVERY TIME. Make sure to have this app open for some seconds. If you close this app directly after the app starts, there is no lag. Have to wait till the opening animation is finished
I seriously can't stand this. It has flared up my OCD. Unlike the majority here, I love my iPhone 7. They just need to fix this one thing.
This may have been mentioned, I haven't read the entire thread...but anyone think maybe the iPhone 7 is closing the apps faster than previous iPhones and the gui can't render it fast enough? That's my guess.
This may have been mentioned, I haven't read the entire thread...but anyone think maybe the iPhone 7 is closing the apps faster than previous iPhones and the gui can't render it fast enough? That's my guess.
plz don't tell me its slower
It's more or less just a glitch with the app closing animation. Otherwise the A10 is a Monster, even in low power mode it's achieving 1767/2848 in Geekbench 4. That's faster than a 6 Plus. So no worries.
This needs to be fixed ASAP. I really can't stand watching that stutter every time I close the app. I'm surprised its not big news everywhere cause its happening on every iPhone 7 or 7 Plus.