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iPhone Users Complain of App Slowdowns and Performance Drops After Installing iOS 11
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Mine has been absolutely terrible, snapchat is very unresponsive, imessage takes 3-5 seconds to load and open. my camera app completely froze my iPhone for 3 minutes after i tried to rotate the orientation of the screen. It has been an absolute mess
That may be true for some but it can’t be the one answer for all the various issues users are having. The vast majority are not reporting problems, so presumably re-indexing isn’t that big a deal.
It’s a combination of a .0 OS release and no doubt some apps are buggy as well, and they will be updated. If you’re having the same issues on different devices, I would start suspecting an ill behaved app might be responsible.
Same on my iPhone 7 except for a third party calculator that can freeze when going to landscape. Obviously some users are having significant problems.
I think I'm going to stay permanently on 10.3.3 on my 7. I want to keep this phone for a few more years, and this is the most guaranteed way of making it stay super fast. There are no features I really care about in iOS 11 anyways, except iMessages in iCloud and Apple Pay in iMessage, which aren't even available
[doublepost=1506379664][/doublepost]Battery life on my iPhone 6 has improved since installing iOS11. Not noticing any slowdowns in apps or overall performance.
Following the release of a new version of iOS, there are typically complaints about battery problems, issues with apps, and minor bugs, and the launch of iOS 11 has proven to be no exception.
On reddit, numerous users who have installed iOS 11 claim to be experiencing much slower app performance, app crashes, and other similar issues. The initial reddit post calls launching apps "an absolute chore," a sentiment echoed by dozens of additional comments.
Users are complaining that their phones "just get stuck on apps" and that a hard reset is the only way to fix the problem. Reddit, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Messenger, Safari, and more are all affected apps. Sometimes, apps refuse to open just launching from the Home screen, while at other times, apps launched from Notifications won't work, and there are issues with Bluetooth.The Now Playing widget in the Control Center is also a chief complaint, with multiple users unable to control songs on Spotify and Apple Music using the widget, and some users say their battery life has taken a serious hit since updating.
Not all customers who upgraded to iOS 11 are seeing these issues but based on the reddit thread, it seems a fair number of people are having problems. App updates and subsequent iOS 11 updates are likely to resolve these issues over time, but customers who want an immediate fix can try some of the methods reported to work on reddit
Some reddit users claim that resetting their settings (Settings --> General ---> Reset --> Reset All Settings) fixed all of the app issues, while others have restored their devices and set it up as new to solve the problem. Others have backed up and restored and had better results. From one reddit user on backup and restore:Multiple iPhone models appear to be affected, with redditors reporting issues on the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and other earlier models. The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus do not appear to be affected, and there are few complaints about iPad Pro models.
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After Installing iOS 11
iOS 11 is definitely buggy on my 7 Plus. High Sierra is too (2012 iMac). Cant wait for the 0.1 updates.
i find the same...i was on beta and didn’t have any issues until the GM was issued. now, i have all kinds of crashes and freezing with just about any app i use.
Both my 6S (64GB) and SE (64GB) were noticeably "snappy" immediately after the upgrade.
Prior to my 6S was lagging on opening apps on iOS 10.
The kids 6th gen iPod Touch's are just as responsive as before upgrading to iOS 11.
Frick, I don't know...
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What am I missing? Poor performing? What?!?
And honestly I am at a loss calling the most valuable company on the planet
a "cult".
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No offense but “not efficiently updating the OS” defies how computers work.
People always used to reboot or even reinstall windows any time they had any little issue. It pretty much didn’t fix anything 99% of the time. Same with these maneuvers.
I haven't installed iOS 11 on my iPhone yet, but I have installed it on my iPad Air 2 and Mini 4. FWIW, the only issue is that launching apps seems slower and minimizing apps is very jerky/laggy.
BTW, on "indexing," we know Mac OS machines do this. Do we actually know that iOS devices do something similar?
BTW, on "indexing," we know Mac OS machines do this. Do we actually know that iOS devices do something similar?
That’s funny because my 8 plus is already experiencing obsolescene with ios 11
6S Plus here. My performance was choppy and crappy on 10.3 already. With 11, it's a mixed bag. Some things are improved, like app-switching and other similar functions are actually quicker, but there is more lagginess with other animations and things and lots of blank screens and weirdness on certain apps. iTunes store was actually shaking today.
Battery life has been awful. I updated last Wednesday, so almost a week here. Still really bad battery life in comparison to 10.3 so far...
Battery life has been awful. I updated last Wednesday, so almost a week here. Still really bad battery life in comparison to 10.3 so far...
A sales tactic that affects their second newest phone that they're still selling? Think about it, man
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Actually the iPhone 7 is not the second newest, it's the third.
The brand new, shiny one is the X, then comes the 8 and after them come the older 7 and 6s.
Do you recall when iPhones were compared with other devices in terms on how responsive they were in milliseconds? It was a point of pride when they were 10-100 milliseconds more responsive than other brands.
Now the whole OS ignores you for sometimes even >1 second at a time while it's doing an 'animation' (even when it appears to be done).
It's never been as bad as iOS 7.0 (the atrocity we had to live with for half a year), but even to this day I can't seem to naturally wait long enough for iOS not to ignore my inputs following just about any animation.
No issues on my 7 Plus. Apps open snappy with no lag whatsoever.
Re-indexing is one thing, but photo analysis (facial, object recognition), conversion to HEIF, and uploading photos to iCloud when you have optimisation on can also lead to lag, battery running down faster and phone running hot. Depending on the size of your library, this could take a long time.
Re-indexing is one thing, but photo analysis (facial, object recognition), conversion to HEIF, and uploading photos to iCloud when you have optimisation on can also lead to lag, battery running down faster and phone running hot. Depending on the size of your library, this could take a long time.