I have the 5s and now the 6s+ and both are doing very well. No hick-ups nor lag. Must be the crap OP put on the system or hardware where he should have taking it in by now. Do a clean wipe of the phone and start fresh without anything added and see if it still has issues. Do not do a restore
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Its a sad shame I'd rather use my ip5 than 6S.
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I'm sorry you're having problems. I'm not experiencing any difficulties with my iPhone 6s Plus. And I couldn't imagine going back to 6.0 as a choice.
Different strokes. Best of luck and enjoy your device.
My previous iPhone was the 5, and now using the 6S.
Both are iPhones, and both function mostly the same. One primary incentive for me to upgrade was that the battery life of the 5 was not great, especially compared to my 6S.
The extra animations can make things feel slower. Simply turn on "Reduce Motion." I always disable unnecessary animations on my devices, even on Windows since win9x.
There is a bug on 9.x though (happened to me during 9.0x and 9.1). Sometimes the animations are completely gone (eg when one enters a folder, the folder just suddenly opens, without any transition/transparency). This requires a reboot to fix.
Both are iPhones, and both function mostly the same. One primary incentive for me to upgrade was that the battery life of the 5 was not great, especially compared to my 6S.
The extra animations can make things feel slower. Simply turn on "Reduce Motion." I always disable unnecessary animations on my devices, even on Windows since win9x.
There is a bug on 9.x though (happened to me during 9.0x and 9.1). Sometimes the animations are completely gone (eg when one enters a folder, the folder just suddenly opens, without any transition/transparency). This requires a reboot to fix.
I agree that the 6 Plus is a total dog. It was was both my favorite and least favorite phone. I couldn't wait to upgrade to the 6S Plus. I find this new S running the way I expect it to run. No more lagginess, glitches and reloading of tabs.
I have to say, it's the same with my iPad Air 2.
Safari is much better, but it's going between apps that is so slow. It's not so much lag as just downright non-responsiveness. Four finger swiping is much slower, especially for the app switcher. And flicking through things sideways is awful. Even opening apps is slower. Taps are slower to respond. And yesterday, I had my first soft reboot in iOS 9.1.
Sigh.
OP I just fired up my 3GS from 2009 and you're totally right! Damn, I wish I had iOS 4... that was when iOS was truly fluid and had good features. I mean an iphone 5 is good, but you can go back to when Apple was in their prime Jobs era. So the 3GS is the best performing iphone out there, not the 5.
This is your problem, if your running a beta on your 6s then you can't complain about anything crashing, it's a beta expect it. If you were running 9.1 on your 6s and it was crashing then you have problems and need to take your phone to Apple and show them. I've been using my 6s for almost a month now and it's fluid, smooth and have never had any crash and it came with 9.0 and I updated it to 9.1 with no problems. In fact my 6s battery trumps my iPhone 5 (which had a brand new battery) I can literally get 2 full days of battery vs 1 day with my 5 and doing all the same stuff I usually do on my phone.
It sounds like you have already convinced yourself you would rather have your 5, so then use it and sell your 6s.
...who hopes I didn't just reply to a spam post....
Why don't you turn them off?
Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion > and turn the switch ON.
Except many of the same people that complain about that also talk about planned obsolescence, which doesn't quite make sense of the latest and the greatest phone is also suffering the same issues.
+1. 6s with 9.0.2 is blazing fast here. Setup as new instead of restore from backup.
Tweak to speed up animation is also one of main reason for me to jailbreak.
Tweak to speed up animation is also one of main reason for me to jailbreak.
You are 100% right. In my opinion also iOS 6 on the iPhone 5 still is the pinacle of iOS for speed and reliability. My wife still has her old 5 on 6.1.4 and man it's smooth. There is only like 35-60 processes running on it. As iOS has grown I sometimes see up to 120 processes going on at a time with iOS 8. Who knows how many things are running on iOS 9! I'm on a 6 on 9.1 and I wish I still had my 5 on iOS 6. What do ya do? Hopefully they can polish iOS 9 up. But for now my phone does what I need it to do. It's just annoying things aren't really much better and other things are much worse in places where they used to be fine.
Yeah iOS 9 needs work. Those that don't notice any issues are the lucky ones! Load 9.1 onto your 5 and compare again.
They are lucky. Some people who are used to seeing higher frame rates and random drops like gamers, are people who will see these issues ALL the time as they ARE THERE! Just more average people don't see them. This aggravates the person who sees the issues all the time, and it aggravates the person who doesn't because they think the one complaining is a snob, when they simply have more sensitive eyes when it comes to frame rate.
About frame rate and refresh rate:
It definitely has it's issues. Watch this video in 60FPS and if you still don't see it, you are another person who simply has less sensitive eyes. Not a bad thing, it's a good thing for you because you don't have to get annoyed so much when using your phone lol. Maybe you just don't use the things that cause the FPS issues, like what's in the video below.
My iPad mini 2 is the same as your iPad Air hardware wise, and for me, it is definitely the contrary to what you said. Everything is so much more sluggish when compared to iOS 8, opening apps, spotlight, app switcher, tons of stuff. Maybe you just don't use spotlight or the app switcher which cause such awful frame drops? Because I don't see how anybody can simply be fine with 10FPS animations in the app switcher. My iPad mini 2 on iOS 9.2b3 is worse off than the iPhone 5 on iOS 9.2b3 in terms of UI smoothness.
I definitely have, you aren't alone. I've seen hiccups on the 6S, there are others out there, trust me!
This person has clean installed their phone 3 times and have been using heir phone for awhile. Indexing isn't going to last for weeks or months.
We don't have a high bar for perfection, we just seemingly see issues so much more easily than other people. Seeing these little things all the time in daily use gets very irritating.
The 5S control center apparently is appalling at times, and it's kinda iffy on my 6 as well. I've noticed small CC issues on the 6S as well that aren't even there on the iPhone 5 due to metal. Everything so far has issues with iOS 9.
That's really sad considering how powerful the Air 2 is and the fact that it's the latest device you can buy from Apple.
These aren't mine, but they're informative to say the least. Make sure to watch in 60FPS if you can.
http://youtu.be/YCWZ_kWTB9w
I'm running 9.2b3 on my iPhone 6 and iPad mini 2. It's been better in every single way compared to iOS 9.1, but it still is not there yet. Spotlight and app switcher both still drop down to 20-30 FPS at times on my iPad mini 2 if I don't have reduce motion and or reduce transparency enabled. .1, .2, .3 etc betas usually aren't problematic. .0 beta is what generally causes serious issues. I've compared the 5 and 6S and I've seen issues on the 6S that aren't there on the 5 due to metal. The 6S plus probably has more noticeable issues.
Many people see these types of things but are simply not "aggravated" by something trivial as that.
we obviously represent the opposing sides of the strongly held opinions.
i have had an incredibly frustrating run with my 6 on iOS 8/9. beyond it being visually janky when side by side with my 4s on iOS 6, i've had numerous problems with flaky bluetooth, keyboard, iMessage, app store, continuity, handoff... basically you're saying wanting a phone that doesn't constantly require various resets and troubleshooting is me setting too high a bar.
i'm not saying thats what happens for you or everyone else. but FOR ME its been one irritation after another to the point where i am developing a negative association with iOS products. thats me being truthful. i'm not telling you that you have to hate your phone, so please don't tell me i have to be satisfied with mine.
There's definitely something wrong with your phone or your installation. There's no possible way your iPhone 5 (not even a 5s) is running smoother than a 6s. There will not be a single instance where the 5 is faster than a 6s. Not one. single. instance.
Of course there is. The phones use completely different rendering engines. One phone (6S) uses something totally new (Metal) and is still obviously maturing, and the other phone (5) is using one that's been around and optimized for ages (Open GL).
Control Center stutters and drops frames on my iPhone 6, especially over an open folder, while both cases are 100% smooth on iPhone 5. I've compared it side by side, and I haven't used an iPhone 6 that behaved differently than mine. Metal isn't optimized yet, so if it is causing issues on the iPhone 6, it sure as hell is causing issues on the iPhone 6S.
You're drawing a very large conclusion there, which is inherently false. The 6s is so much more powerful than the 6 that these issues just aren't apparent there, even with an "immature" Metal. And take that from someone who spent a year irritated as all heck by the stuttering and performance issues on his 6 Plus. The 6s and 6s Plus simply don't suffer like this - especially in the 9.2 betas. There's absolutely no way a 5 performances better than a 6s running 9.2. If someone says it does, I want to see video evidence showing the issues. Sounds reasonable, no?
My iPhone 6s+ running 9.0 runs flawless as well. I'll never update it, not when I've never experienced a hiccup.
You said 9.1 before. 9.2 - I have a harder time arguing against based on how good that's been for my devices. Metal still can go further though with my iPad, app switcher and spotlight are still trash.
I went from iPhone 6 Plus to an iPhone 5. I much prefer the size of the 5. I'm running iOS 9.1 on the 5 , and it's smooth as butter. I am not having any problems at all.
Me!!!, the last good version was iOS 6, the following versions iOS 7, 8, 9, have been a fckn nightmare, just by seeing the stupid colors I feel like I'm using a toy... plus the lag, bugs & so on.