Something interesting I recently came across.
For quite a while now (since iOS 5 came out), my iPhone 4 has been slightly slow at opening and closing apps. I'm specifically referencing the "zooming" animation that occurs as the apps are populated and depopulated from the home screen when the home button is pressed. Even after restoring as new, the animation is still relatively choppy, especially the last couple frames.
There's a catch, however. Whenever I take an app located on a full page of apps (one that would normally give the iPhone a significant bit of trouble) and place it on a page of its own, the app opens and closes every bit as smoothly as it would on my 3rd gen iPad. Obviously the performance of the app itself is unaffected, but the process of opening and closing it is much quicker.
I am well aware that this is certainly minor in the grand scheme of things, and can likely be chalked up to the aging SGX 535 GPU in the iPhone 4, but it is still interesting to me nonetheless. Does anybody have a theory as to what changed in iOS 5+ to cause the stuttering that wasn't present on iOS 4?
For quite a while now (since iOS 5 came out), my iPhone 4 has been slightly slow at opening and closing apps. I'm specifically referencing the "zooming" animation that occurs as the apps are populated and depopulated from the home screen when the home button is pressed. Even after restoring as new, the animation is still relatively choppy, especially the last couple frames.
There's a catch, however. Whenever I take an app located on a full page of apps (one that would normally give the iPhone a significant bit of trouble) and place it on a page of its own, the app opens and closes every bit as smoothly as it would on my 3rd gen iPad. Obviously the performance of the app itself is unaffected, but the process of opening and closing it is much quicker.
I am well aware that this is certainly minor in the grand scheme of things, and can likely be chalked up to the aging SGX 535 GPU in the iPhone 4, but it is still interesting to me nonetheless. Does anybody have a theory as to what changed in iOS 5+ to cause the stuttering that wasn't present on iOS 4?